Feb 082010
Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce some big changes in the way he enforces immigration laws.
The sheriff is under investigation by the Justice Department for racial profiling, and has taken heat for his crime suppression sweeps. But he still says he won’t back down.
Arpaio says that every MCSO deputy will receive training to find and detain illegal immigrants, and be taught to avoid racial profiling.
MCSO has hired a professor of immigration law, Kris Kobach, to lead the training. He says that deputies have the inherent authority to detain suspected illegal immigrants.
