Sheriff Won't End Hot Line on Migrants

[GraceAbounds]

Sheriff Won't End Hot Line on Migrants


(AP) - PHOENIX-The county sheriff said he won't disconnect a hot line he created for people to report information about illegal immigrants that has been decried as promoting ethnic profiling.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio stressed Wednesday that deputies would investigate people only if authorities had probable cause.

The hot line began last Friday and has received about 300 messages, which include tips about family and friends, employment, day laborers, houses where smugglers drop illegal immigrants, and crank calls.
Arpaio said officials are analyzing the tips but have not acted on any of them.
"There's nothing unconstitutional about putting up a hotline," Arpaio said, pointing out that federal immigration officials have similar hot lines.
Some Latino advocacy groups will launch a hot line of their own to take tips from people who believe they've been unfairly reported to Arpaio's hotline, said activist Mary Rose Wilcox, a Maricopa County supervisor.
Meanwhile, some faith-based organizations are circulating a letter among church leaders and members criticizing Arpaio's hot line.

Another thing Arpaio is doing right that some people (probably the ones that are breaking the law) can't stand.

 

[All Else Failed]

The only thing I'm concerned about is immigrants that are here on a visa or are in the process of getting their citizenship being thrown out by accident, it could and has happened.

 

[GraceAbounds]

If they have the proper documents I do not see why they'd be thrown out, they'd be legal. But where humans are involved there will always be the err, the exception.

 

[Peter Parka]

Its going to end up causing harrassment because of stupid people grassing people up all the time because they have a neighbour with tanned skin! Sad but true!