Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Feds May Soon Change Immigration Enforcement Policies

Press release from the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

(Phoenix, AZ) Since 2006, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have been responsible for arresting, detaining, or investigating in the jails over 38,000 illegal immigrants that otherwise may have been released back out onto the streets of Maricopa County.

But Sheriff Arpaio is voicing his concern that efforts by his office which have contributed to a reduction in illegal immigration and crime may be trumped by an agenda out of Washington that threatens to reduce local law enforcement’s ability to enforce illegal immigration laws.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has recently publicly commented that the new Arizona law is not the solution to immigration enforcement and further added that he may not accept illegal immigrants apprehended by local law enforcement in Arizona.

“It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict that substantive changes to illegal immigration enforcement are looming,” Arpaio says. “These changes are likely to be unwelcome by the majority of Arizonans, me included.”

RTWT at the link.