- Sheriffs Larry Dever (at podium) and Paul Babeu tell of the need to secure the border at a KFYI news conference. (Photo courtesy KFYI)
UPDATES 7/30/10
The implementation of a watered-down immigration law in Arizona won’t change how officers and deputies already do their jobs, according to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.
Additional training and guidance for his deputies is already being provided through the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, he told CBS 5 News Thursday morning, only hours after a modified version of the law took effect. “It really doesn’t change a lot for the officers and deputies across Arizona,” he said.
More: http://bit.ly/dgIb0H
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NEWS RELEASES
Border Sheriffs.com
Border Sheriffs Decry Harmful Legal Action by Administration, Demand National Guard Support
July 29, 2010
Phoenix, AZ – On Thursday the Obama Administration reneged on its promise to send National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border on August 1st aimed at aiding local law enforcement in border security. The decision to delay the troop arrival coincides with their aggressive legal action against the state of Arizona’s support of immigration law SB 1070 which was passed to give law enforcement officers the proper tools to stop illegal immigration and criminal activity. Arizona Sheriffs Larry Dever and Paul Babeu have set up a legal defense fund to fight the lawsuits brought by the state at www.bordersheriffs.com.
The federal government has again disappointed the people of Arizona and those fighting to stop criminal aliens from invading our communities,””said Sheriffs Dever and Babeu. “”Like the harmful and unjust lawsuits brought against the state of Arizona and its sheriffs, this latest action to delay troop arrival only confirms our suspicions about this Administration.
“President Obama and his Administration are not interested in helping Arizona do its job to protect its citizens, and the citizens of this country who are at risk. Incredibly, they are using the force of the federal government to actively work against our efforts and punish us for doing the job they refuse to do.
“We ask again: Let us do our job. The Administration’s refusal to secure our borders does not give it the right to stop us from doing it on our own.”
On July 19, Homeland Security issued a news release announcing they were going to delay National Guard troops along the Southwest border on August 1st. Secretary Janet Napolitano, in a piece published the same day for The Arizona Republic, stated that 524 of the troops would be assigned to Arizona and would coincide with a surge of resources for the border. On Thursday, Arizona National Guard spokesman Lt. Valentine Castillo stated the Guard will not have any units deployed by the deadline. He also stated they are not sure when those troops are set to arrive.
This delay follows a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against the state of Arizona and another filed by the ACLU and other groups directly against Arizona sheriffs, including Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County and Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County. The Administration has aggressively litigated the lawsuit which has led to an injunction by the presiding judge on key law enforcement provisions of Senate Bill 1070. The sheriffs have set up a legal defense fund in order to continue to fight against the lawsuit at www.bordersheriffs.com.
BorderSheriffs.com is a project of the Legacy Foundation to financially support the legal defense of SB1070 on Cochise County Sheriff Dever for lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the US Department of Justice against them and the State of Arizona. The Foundation is 501(c)(3) organization based in Des Moines, Iowa focused on state level policy matters, including constitutional and civil rights.
For further information, please contact Jameson Cunningham with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920.
Federal Judge Politicizes Border Protection, Babeu and Dever Request Special Legislative Session to Meet Extra-Constitutional Standards
July 28, 2010
Phoenix, AZ – Today Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever denounced federal judge Susan Bolton’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction preventing portions of Senate Bill 1070 from becoming law and immediately appealed the ruling expressed their intent to pursue an appeal of the decision. The law, passed by the people of Arizona, would have taken effect on July 29 and would have been an important part in the ongoing efforts of state and local government to fill the hole left by the federal government’s abdication of its responsibility to secure the border. To fight the unjust lawsuit, Sheriff Dever has hired a private Lawfirm, Rose Law Group pc, to represent their interests. For more information go to www.bordersheriffs.com, there they have a fund to assist them in their defense against the federal government and the ACLU.
“Incredibly, even though there is not one person who can legitimately claim to be harmed by a law that has not even taken effect, the result of an injunction is de facto amnesty through non-enforcement of laws against illegal immigration,” Sheriffs Babeu and Dever said. “The ACLU and Justice Department are playing politics in demanding that law enforcement not act to protect the public but failing to do anything about our illegal crossing issue. It is putting our Deputies and the families we’ve sworn an oath to protect in harms way and we need the Government to stop the lawsuits and start taking corrective action. Help us, don’t sue us.”
Judge Susan Bolton was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 2000, and prior to that was appointed a Maricopa County Superior Court judge by Governor Mofford.
“The federal government refuses to secure the border and leaves it to states like Arizona to bear the costs of its inaction. Yet, when we try to do the job they won’t do, in a manner consistent with federal law, they stop us. You couldn’t make up something this ridiculous.
“The Obama Administration has a light touch when it comes to securing the border but a heavy hand when it comes to sicking their lawyers on the people of Arizona,” the Sheriffs continued. “From Washington it might be hard to see the problems that we see every day as a result of our Swiss cheese border. Maybe if they spent some time in our counties they would think about a crackdown on illegal immigration rather than a crackdown on those of us fighting illegal immigration.
“We call on Governor Brewer to call the Legislature into special session to craft a measure that will meet the Courts objections, while still providing tools to secure the border. If we don’t act, we are giving short shrift to the concerns of the people of Arizona, who are the real victims here. This decision must be appealed.
“In the meantime, we will continue to use the laws and resources available to protect the people we serve.”
BorderSheriffs.com is a project of the Legacy Foundation to financially support the legal defense of SB1070 on Cochise County Sheriff Dever for lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the US Department of Justice against them and the State of Arizona. The Foundation is 501(c)(3) organization based in Des Moines, Iowa focused on state level policy matters, including constitutional and civil rights.
For further information, please contact Jameson Cunningham with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920. ###
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VIDEO: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu states “”We are outgunned . . .”
http://antiglobalists.com/?p=320
UPDATES: 7/29
In the border battle, how does Wednesday’s decision on SB 1070 affect Arizona law enforcement?
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu tells FOX 10.http://bit.ly/cxn5QV
SB1070: Rose Law Group litigant hopeful judge will permit law officers’ views in DOJ suit
By Phil Riske
Managing Editor, Rose Law Group Reporter
The head of Rose Law Group’s (RLG) Litigation Department Thursday predicted U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton would permit Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever to intervene in the suit against SB1017 brought by the Justice Department.
RLG attorney Brian Bergin told KFYI talk show host Jim Sharpe that law enforcement, while being sued by the ACLU et al in a separate case, has no voice in the DOJ suit. Bergin on Wednesday filed a motion (http://bit.ly/9mVip1) to permit Dever to intervene in the federal case, which will be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
“Sheriff Dever wants to make sure he has a seat at the table and his unique perspective (what is life like in a border county] is heard,” Bergin said, adding doesn’t expect anything “inconsistent” with yesterday’s ruling when Bolton rules on the ACLU lawsuit against 15 county sheriffs.
The ACLU, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice) on May 17 filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s sheriffs and county attorneys, asking the court to find SB 1070 unconstitutional, alleging it violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law because it unlawfully invites the racial profiling of Latinos and other people who look or sound “foreign-born.”
RLG is defending Dever in the ACLU case.
Bergin elaborated on his prediction Bolton would agree with the Dever intervention in the DOJ case.
“There just isn’t any way the court can truly have an evaluation of what’s happening in the border counties and how law enforcement officials will enforce the law once it’s put into effect,” he said.
Bergin and Babeu were asked to comment on Bolton’s ruling yesterday, which temporarily enjoined controversial sections of SB1070.
“If one reads the ruling that was issued yesterday, there was a lot of inflammatory rhetoric thrown out by the Department of Justice—what a boogeyman this law would be,” Bergin said.
Babeu told KFYI he agreed with SB1070 sponsor Sen. Russell Pearce that the court “moved the needle” on illegal immigration by approving sections of the law dealing with human smuggling.
“We may do something about illegal immigration,” Babeu said of the ruling, adding it won’t change the way he deals with illegal immigration in his non-sanctuary county.
Babeu appealed to the audience to contribute to the defense fund for him and Dever at (www.bordersheriffs.com).
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Sheriff Dever media appearances July 28
VIDEOS/AUDIO
Larry King Live: http://bit.ly/cEgGbT
Jim Bohannon Show: http://bit.ly/9t15Ip
FOX News: http://bit.ly/aGNLQ5
MSNBC http://bit.ly/ayx3En
WSJ Radio: http://www.wsjradio.com/WSJAM.html
Laura Ingram Show: http://www.lauraingraham.com/
UPDATES: 7/28/10
BREAKING: SB1070 Sheriff Dever files intervention motion in DOJ lawsuit Read it here: Sheriff Dever’s Motion to Intervene
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/28/10
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
BORDER SHERIFFS DENOUNCE RULING TO STOP ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT
Federal Judge Politicizes Border Protection, Babeu and Dever Request Special Legislative Session to Meet Extra-Constitutional Standards
Phoenix, AZ – Today Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever denounced federal judge Susan Bolton’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction preventing portions of Senate Bill 1070 from becoming law and immediately appealed the ruling expressed their intent to pursue an appeal of the decision. The law, passed by the people of Arizona, would have taken effect on July 29 and would have been an important part in the ongoing efforts of state and local government to fill the hole left by the federal government’s abdication of its responsibility to secure the border. To fight the unjust lawsuit, Sheriff Dever has hired a private Lawfirm, Rose Law Group pc, to represent their interests. For more information go to www.bordersheriffs.com, there they have a fund to assist them in their defense against the federal government and the ACLU.
“Incredibly, even though there is not one person who can legitimately claim to be harmed by a law that has not even taken effect, the result of an injunction is de facto amnesty through non-enforcement of laws against illegal immigration,” Sheriffs Babeu and Dever said. “The ACLU and Justice Department are playing politics in demanding that law enforcement not act to protect the public but failing to do anything about our illegal crossing issue. It is putting our Deputies and the families we’ve sworn an oath to protect in harms way and we need the Government to stop the lawsuits and start taking corrective action. Help us, don’t sue us.”
Judge Susan Bolton was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 2000, and prior to that was appointed a Maricopa County Superior Court judge by Governor Mofford.
“The federal government refuses to secure the border and leaves it to states like Arizona to bear the costs of its inaction. Yet, when we try to do the job they won’t do, in a manner consistent with federal law, they stop us. You couldn’t make up something this ridiculous.
“The Obama Administration has a light touch when it comes to securing the border but a heavy hand when it comes to sicking their lawyers on the people of Arizona,” the Sheriffs continued. “From Washington it might be hard to see the problems that we see every day as a result of our Swiss cheese border. Maybe if they spent some time in our counties they would think about a crackdown on illegal immigration rather than a crackdown on those of us fighting illegal immigration.
“We call on Governor Brewer to call the Legislature into special session to craft a measure that will meet the Courts objections, while still providing tools to secure the border. If we don’t act, we are giving short shrift to the concerns of the people of Arizona, who are the real victims here. This decision must be appealed. “In the meantime, we will continue to use the laws and resources available to protect the people we serve.”
BorderSheriffs.com is a project of the Legacy Foundation to financially support the legal defense of SB1070 on Cochise County Sheriff Dever for lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the US Department of Justice against them and the State of Arizona. The Foundation is 501(c)(3) organization based in Des Moines, Iowa focused on state level policy matters, including constitutional and civil rights.
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Additional statement from Babeu:
“Incredibly, even though there is not one person who can legitimately claim to be harmed by a law that has not even taken effect, the result of an injunction is de facto amnesty through non-enforcement of laws against illegal immigration,”
“The federal government refuses to secure the border and leaves it to states like Arizona to bear the costs of its inaction. Yet, when we try to do the job they won’t do, in a manner consistent with federal law, they stop us. You couldn’t make up something this ridiculous.”
“It’s a sad day in America when our own president has directed his attorney general to provide terrorist Miranda rights, yet fights to deny law enforcement the very tools needed to determine if an illegal is in America legally. Why has the President not come to Arizona to personally inspect the threat that our citizens face?”
“This is our most serious public safety issue and a national security threat to America. President Obama seems to have won the initial legal battle on the basis of the supremacy clause, saying it is inherently his job to enforce immigration law. We in Arizona could not agree more that is it his job and we demand that he do his job and protect our state, rather that continuing to fight us in court.”
Sheriff Dever has confirmed the following interview schedule:
Today, July 28:
Michael Savage radio show at 3:30 p.m. AZ time
Larry King
Jim Bohannon Show @ 7:30 AZ time for 30 min.
Mike Gallagher, top 20 talk show host and FOX news regular, is hosting a special show tonight, including Larry Dever.
Additionally, either Sheriff Dever or Sheriff Paul Babeu are set to be interviewed on the BBC sometime today.
Tomorrow: July 29:
CNN’s American Morning show
“Wall Street Journal this Morning”
“News and Views” of IRN/USA Radio Network (29th or 30th)
Sheriff Babeu’s media schedule:
Thursday, July 29
6 am Channel 5 (KPHO)
6:30 am KFYI (Jim Sharpe)
8:30 am Fox and Family
9 am Channel 10 (Fox)
9:30 am Tucson Citizen
11 am MSNBC
2 pm CNN Wolf Bitzer
3:30 pm WBAR Satelite Radio
5 pm PBS Horizon
7:15 pm Fox Greta Show
Channel 10 with John Hook
Channel 5 KPHO.
Friday morning starts at 3:30 am with Fox News.
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A border manifesto
By Ed Ashurst
Apache Arizona
I believe story telling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” And yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.
I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I’ve been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it “the wetback culture” or “America’s border problem”. Lately it’s been taking steroids.
The recent murder of Robert Krentz by an illegal alien has received massive amounts of publicity worldwide. I live on the ranch bordering the Krentz ranch to the east and north. I can see the Krentz home looking out of my front door approximately 10 miles away. The day after Rob’s death I was involved in tracking the outlaw into Mexico. I saw the outlaw’s footprints where he crossed the border fence. I mention this to say I feel that I’m qualified to speak about current border issues.
My home has been broken into twice. My son’s home has been broken into also and between us we have had between twenty and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from us including two ranch pick-ups, a four wheeler, 9 firearms (including a loaded AK 47) cash, jewelry all of our credit cards, driver’s license, etc. A guest house here on the ranch has been broken into so many times we quit counting… many times we haven’t even called the Sheriff’s dept. The Cochise County Sheriff’s dept. has no less than fifteen reports on file where I’ve called for assistance dealing with an outlaw illegal alien.
Several months ago, not long after Rob Krentz’s death, Fox news (channel 10 in Phoenix AZ) contacted me and expressed interest in coming down and doing a news story about me and the problems myself and other ranchers in this area have had in recent months with illegal outlaws. To prepare for my interview with Fox, I asked for assistance from six other neighboring ranchers and businessmen. All of these men are prominent men in the community, tax payers, business owners and individuals who have the best of reputations. Together we made a map of the area which covered from the southeastern corner of AZ going west about 20 miles to the silver creek area, and going north about 30 miles to the area around the towns of Portal, AZ and Rodeo, N.M. On this map we made marks recording violations to United States law committed by illegal aliens. We did not use government statistics (we wouldn’t know how to get them) but recorded incidents that we knew had happened first hand, many of which we had witnessed. We tried to record only the incidents that have happened in the last several years.
The sum total of what we recorded is this:
The arrest or capture of 40 illegal in one bunch – 40 (we didn’t bother with the countless smaller groups)
Loads of Marijuana found and captured – 213
Dangerous encounters with illegal aliens – 132 (assault, burglaries, forced entries, etc.)
Dead illegal aliens found by civilians – 16
High speed vehicle chases between dope haulers and law enforcement – 14
Illegal aliens spotted with firearms – 12
Fires started by illegal aliens – 9
Over 1000, 000 acres burned with the cost to taxpayers of $ 40,000,000. One fire near Portal AZ in June of 2010 cost $10,000,000. to fight (forest Service estimate)
Outlandish incidents – 4
Example: One bachelor in the Portal area was burglarized around 100 times. He finally took all his valuables and put them in a steel vault and welded the door shut. He then moved out of his house into a shed hoping the illegal aliens would leave him alone. They did not and he finally abandoned his property. Another outlandish event was when outlaws stole a brand new Caterpillar motor grader on the Geronimo Trail east of Douglas, AZ and drove south through the border fence never to be seen again. The grader belonged to Cochise County Hwy Dept.
Financial losses to private sector – $100,000,000.00 (losses in real estate value, personal property, etc., losses in wildlife habitat – immeasurable)
Last but certainly not least, the murder of Rob Krentz, which is right in the center of our map.
Let me put this in perspective. The area I’m talking about is an area that covers approximately 17 or 18 townships with only 20 miles being adjacent to the US – Mexico Boundary. Within this area, there is a population of perhaps 600 people, 90% of which reside in Rodeo, N.M. or Portal, AZ, 30 miles or so north of Mexico. No less than 80% of the people in this area have been burglarized or otherwise molested by illegal aliens. This area is about half as big as the Diamond A ranch or Babbitt ranch in northern AZ, both of which I’ve been employed on.
I’m sorry to report that this, in my opinion, is the small part of the story. The Mexican-American border has taken a dramatic change for the worse in the last several years. Those of us who live here see it first hand. As early as February of 1999 Sheriff Larry Dever warned me and others at a town hall meeting at the Apache School that the Sinaloa Cartel was moving into the Douglas-Agua Prieta area (Rob Krentz was at this meeting). The cities of Nuevo Laredo, Coahila, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, and other border towns south of Texas have been controlled by outlaws for years. There is virtually no law enforcement in those places. The law is the law of the jungle. Until the last two years it seemed that Agua Prieta and Nogales were safer places but that has dramatically changed in recent months.
I am personally acquainted with 2 Mexican men, that I know to be honest and trustworthy, who have been involved first hand with Mexican outlaw terrorist acts. One witnessed first hand an execution of several people in broad daylight in Juarez. Several weeks later his daughter witnessed an assassination in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua no less than fifteen feet from where she stood. The other man is a legal Mexican green card holder (who was employed by the Krentz family for years) whose nephew was murdered by cartel members in Sonora. At night people in Douglas are hearing machine gun fire from Agua Prieta south of the border fence.
The Sinaloa Cartel is now putting a stranglehold on Agua Prieta. No more than 2 months ago 8 armed Mexicans were confronted by 2, U.S. Border Patrol agents north of the International Boundary in southeast Cochise County disguised as Federalizes. They were in fact cartel employees armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols. Mexican people that know tell me the situation in Agua Prieta has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. The good people are told to look the other way “or else.” Volumes could be written about this subject alone, but I will move on.
You could ask, “So what does this have to do with us living north of the border fence?” Plenty! The situation on the border isn’t just about a few workers walking north. It has everything to do with big business. Billions of dollars are being made trafficking humans, drugs, and contraband across the International Boundary. The Sinaloa Cartel, headed by Chapo Guzman and others, is reaping huge profits doing business along the border. The average coyote charges $1500 – $2500 to guide an illegal alien north to find work; usually abandoning them a short distance north of the line. A young man willing to pack dope north can make more than a construction worker or a teacher in the U.S. and only work a day or two a week.
This is not all south of the line. I could take you and show you businesses where checks and credit cards are not accepted and where very few customers walk through the door, yet the owners live in the largest mansions in town and drive very expensive cars. Could there be some money laundering going on? There are only two industries of any significance in Douglas, AZ: law enforcement (Douglas has one of the largest Border Patrol stations in America), and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, etc. across the border. These two industries feed on each other, and the powers that be seem happy with the situation. Crooked politicians look good to the public when they clean up drunk driving and prostitution, until you find they own bars and whore houses south of the line. These things have happened!
But this, in my opinion, is only the beginning. Chapo Guzman who heads up the Sinaloa Cartel is a multibillionaire. This guy and others like him may be cruel and sinister people but they are also very smart businessmen. They are reaping profits off of the largest tax free unregulated business on the planet. They have so much cash they are befuddled what to do with it all. But they are going to figure it out.
There are rumors that Guzman is financing modern, state of the art feedlots and packing houses in Mexico with plans to overtake America as the Western hemisphere’s leading beef producer. This is probably only a small part of his plans. Mexico is a nation rich in natural recourses. Petroleum is abundant and the corrupt Mexican government is in control of all of it. Pemex is the only gas station in town. Pemex, because of the incompetent Mexican government, is broke. Chapo Guzman is at war with the Mexican government and has dreams (not unrealistic) of controlling the entire nation. Think of all of Mexico’s natural resources in the control of Chapo Guzman! He already has the most profitable business in the world – selling Marijuana to your next door neighbor. Think what he could do with a tax free unregulated strangle hold on a nation of poor people begging to work for practically nothing.
Do you think that Chapo Guzman and others like him haven’t thought of all of this? Do you think that Guzman isn’t laughing all the way to the bank as he watches the evening news and hears how the American Government proclaims that the situation on the border is under control? What is going on in northern Mexico is capitalism in its rawest form. They have an untaxed unregulated business making huge profits and they have no plans of closing up shop any time soon. We here in the U.S. are overtaxed, overregulated and being smothered by increasingly intrusive government that makes it hard to do business in a successful manner. You don’t have to be rocket scientist to figure this one out.
This has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat or Latino or White. It has everything to do with being right or wrong. I came from a long line of Democrats. My great uncle was a U.S. Senator for several decades. My grandfather was an attorney, and a Superior Court Judge. I have a 1939 copy of a Time Magazine with his picture when he ran as a Democrat for Congress. The only time in history the U.S deficit was paid off was by a Democrat – Andrew Jackson. John Kennedy announced nearly 50 years ago that America could put a man on the moon and in less than a decade we did it.
I am now a registered Republican, but I’m not a Democrat hater. But, how can the president of the “can do” nation of Andrew Jackson’s and JFK’s party say we can’t seal the border? We conquered Adolph Hitler in World War II, but can’t seal the border? We put a man on the moon but can’t seal a leaking oil well in less than 90 days? While this is going on we tax and regulate American business with a vengeance that stifles the free market system that has made our country great. While Janet Napolitano announces the border is safer than ever, Chapo Guzman and others pack billions of American dollars south to invest in a tax free market with one of the largest cheap labor force on the planet at his disposal!
I challenge you to come to Douglas, AZ and drive east on the Geronimo Trail, or northeast on US Hwy 80 to places on the map like Chiracahua and Apache. Or go to Rodeo and Hatchita, NM. Go and search out the 5 biggest cattle ranches in the Apache, AZ area and ask them what they think. Go to Hidalgo County, N.M. and ask the ranchers and cowboys there what they are seeing and hearing. Ask the people who we do business with what they think of our opinions. I challenge you to ask the prominent people in this area, who work hard and pay taxes if they agree with Barack Obama or Ed Ashurst when it comes to what is really going on near the U.S.-Mexican border. Unlike Obama and others I don’t have to be surrounded by sycophants to make a statement. I purposefully left out the names of those who helped me with my map and the data I collected when preparing for the Fox interview.
In closing I challenge you to look around to see if what I say is the truth. This isn’t about a few Mexicans wandering around looking for a job. This is about American civilization going into a time of tremendous change – a building has foundations and walls, maybe the foundation of our country is still strong, I don’t know, but the walls have certainly fallen down and the keepers of the house are out to lunch.
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SB1070 BREAKING Judge enjoins 4 parts of law, specifically requirement police ask for doc of anyone suspected of being in US illegally
UPDATES: 7/28/10
Sheriff Dever on MSNBC
Community groups prepare for SB1070 vigil and protests
http://bit.ly/btUtUA
Woman won’t attend ASU due to undocumented students
http://bit.ly/bVlAv2
The Cartel Corridor
By: William La Jeunesse
Fox News
Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is raising money to privately outfit his officers with body armor and more powerful weapons because he and his deputies say they can’t compete with the cartels, especially when it comes to weapons. He even has a website asking for donations (www.bordersheriffs.com )
Babeu says the Obama Administration needs to help the state of Arizona, not sue it.
VIDEO: http://bit.ly/93i9q9
NEWS RELEASE
Pinal County Sheriff’s Office
TIM GAFFNEY
July 27th, 2010
Two Cases Involving Deceased Individuals Found in Desert Area
On July 26th, 2010 at 10:04 p.m. the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office received information from a Spanish speaking male that he and his wife were lost in the desert after they had been abandoned by a “Coyote.” The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office – Communications Division was able to provide GPS Coordinates from the location of the 9-1-1 call. The location was north of Interstate 8, west of Smith Road and north of the Central Arizona Canal.
The male subject was located by deputies based on the coordinates provided by dispatchers. He was identified by his Mexican Voter Identification Card as Jose Daniel Castaneda-Morales (age 25). Jose reported that he and his wife had been in the desert for several days. Jose told deputies that his wife was deceased and he had left a trail of toilet paper which would lead them to her body. The body of the female (25 years of age) was found approximately 400 yards south of where Jose had been located. It was obvious that the female was in fact deceased.
The body of the deceased female was transported to the Medical Examiners Office to determine the cause of death. Jose was treated by medical personnel at the scene for dehydration and then turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
On July 22nd, 2010 at 1:05 p.m. the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the U.S. Border Patrol regarding a possible dead body. The U.S. Border Patrol had detained seven suspected illegal immigrants and they reported that a member traveling in their party had fallen behind and was deceased.
Members of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office searched the area where the individuals described and were able to locate the deceased body of an adult male subject. The body was found four miles south of Interstate 8 and milepost 149. The body was transported to the Medical Examiners Office to determine the cause of death.
Sheriff Paul Babeu stated, “The southern border of our country needs to be secured for many reasons. These two cases show the human tragedy involved while individuals from Mexico attempt to cross into our great state.”
UPDATES: 7/27/10
Sheriff Dever on Lou Dobbs national radio program: http://bit.ly/aPvQpl
Sheriff Dever on KHVH with Rick Hamda in Hawaii: http://bit.ly/b4dzms
Latest videos about the border
Pickup rolls, ejecting illegal immigrants CAUTION–GRAPHIC
Jingly_Pick-up
Fox News: Cattle ranchers want crackdown
http://bit.ly/b8LdZi
Sarah Palin appears with Governor Brewer and Bas Aja of the American Cattle Growers Assoc. (ACGA)
http://bit.ly/aLlu1e
Border Patrol says U.S. misled about who is coming into the country from Mexico.
http://bit.ly/9J62eL
Part 2:http://bit.ly/cOakVo
CD-3′s Pamela Gorman on Border Security
http://sonoranalliance.com/
Americans mistakenly deported
CNN video: http://bit.ly/cChfEA
“Horizon” interview of Gary Thrasher, ACGA member, about slain rancher Robert Krentz and the Restore Our Border Security Plan.
http://bit.ly/cY0coc
ASU study looks at illegal immigration’s effect on crime
http://bit.ly/dhZJ7F
UPDATES: 7/26/10
Sheriffs DEver and Babeu on Lou Dobbs national radio show today.
VIDEOS
Sheriff Larry Dever interviewed on Geraldo Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VoYYF8F4-U
Babeu fields sensitive questions on Phoenix TV program
VIDEO here: http://bit.ly/c6ybXp
UPDATES: 7/24/10
McCain gets endorsement he probably doesn’t want
Remember David Duke, once a KKK Grand Wizard? He’s back in the news with an endorsement on his website of Sen. John McCain.
Duke blasted J.D. Hayworth for attacking Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeuf or being interviewed on a pro-white radio talk show. Nevertheless, Duke said he would—holding his nose—vote for Hayworth, were he an Arizona resident because of the former congressman’s strong stand against illegal immigration.
UPDATES: 7/23/10
Sheriff Dever on ‘Cochise Talk’ show, which asks, ‘Is he defiant?’
Listen here: http://cochisetalk.com/2009/index.php?d1=Gov-Politics&p=420
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UPDATES: 7/22/10
Hayworth “desperation” move irks Republicans
From the Yellow Sheet Report
Former J.D. Hayworth campaign staffer Jason Rose told the Yellow Sheet today the former congressman’s call yesterday for Sen. John McCain to “renounce” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and pull a TV ad in which the sheriff supports the senator was inappropriate.
“It was a reach on its best day,” said Rose
“It made a lot of people cringe, including me,” said one GOP political consultant, adding the move reeked of desperation on Hayworth’s part.
The Yellow Sheet reports the Arizona Fraternal Order of Police called on Hayworth to retract his statements and apologize to Babeu.
Babeu is viewed in the GOP as a potential candidate if a new congressional district is drawn to encompass Pinal County, where Republicans have narrowed the voter registration gap to about 1,000. He is the first Republican to be elected sheriff in the county.
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Here for the latest on hearing in US District Court with Fox News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzZ9Dg9F_LE
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Hayworth asks McCain to dump Pinal County Sheriff ads
By Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
J.D. Hayworth has called for his GOP primary rival to pull campaign ads featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in the wake of the lawman’s recent
appearance on a “pro-White” radio show.
Babeu, a vocal proponent of Arizona’s new immigration law, has appeared in two of Sen. John McCain’s television ads, the most recent taking airwaves last week.
In a statement released Wednesday, Hayworth said McCain needs to distance himself from the sheriff for his affiliation with “The Political Cesspool Radio Show,” a Tennessee-based talk show that has been named a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and portrayed as a “White nationalist” program.
More: http://bit.ly/cFXYId
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Implementation of Arizona immigration law looms, ‘pressure from all sides’
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post
BENSON, ARIZ. – Paul Moncada, the silver-haired police chief of this highway town, spent a recent morning anxiously checking the TV for news about Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, set to take effect in a matter of days.
He sifted through stacks of state training materials, which still left him with lots of questions. And he worried about the frustrated people in town who might sue him for not enforcing the new law well enough, the frustrated people in town who might accuse him of racial profiling and the thousands who cross the blazing desert around here and whose lives he is also duty-bound to protect.
More: http://bit.ly/a1NYDG
UPDATE: 7/21/10
Sheriff Dever files declaration in Obama administration case-1070, essential to solve border issue
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever took a front and center role when Governor Jan Brewer filed the state’s response to the federal government’s lawsuit to enjoin 1070 from taking effect on July 29th by providing a Declaration (Declaration of Larry Dever).
In his Declaration, Dever, a National Sheriff’s Association (NSA) board member, past president of the Arizona Sheriff’s Association and the current chairman of the NSAImmigration and Border Security Committee, states the following:
- Border Patrol reports 17% of the illegal immigrants captured have previous serious criminal records in the U.S
- The Dept of Homeland Security itself has specifically encouraged local, state and federal law enforcement groups to share resources and intelligence to benefit Homeland Security – SB 1070 is consistent with these goals
- He has read and respectfully entirely disagrees with the Declaration of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff, Estrada (who by the way today announced he was pulling his endorsement of Senator McCain because Estrada is anti-1070), in the following ways:
o 1070 does not require law enforcement to detain individuals in each and every encounter while immigration status is verified, in fact it allows officers to continue to use reasonable discretion
o ICE is and still will be responsible for detention and deportation of all illegal immigrants arrested in Az
o SB 1070 will not undermine sheriff’s ability to set law enforcement priorities for the county
o SB 1070 will not change the sheriff’s discretion to act on misdemeanor offenses
o SB 1070 will not divert a sheriff’s priorities from arresting people, whether illegal or legal, for committing crimes
o SB 1070 will not interfere with the sheriff’s relationship with ICE or Border Patrol and the federal agencies will continue to determine the status of the suspected illegal immigrants
o SB 1070 will be beneficial to Cochise County because, among other things, it will assist in more quickly and efficiently moving illegal immigrants through the deportation process.
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See http://borderinvasionpics.com/
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More than $24,000 donated to Arizona sheriff legal defense fund
By Joshua Rhett Miller
FoxNews.com
More than $24,000 has been donated to a legal defense fund for two Arizona sheriffs targeted in lawsuits that seek to block enforcement of Arizona’s new immigration law, FoxNews.com has learned.
Roughly 300 donations ranging from $10.70 to $5,000 have poured in from 26 different states since a website for the fund, BorderSheriffs.com, was launched last Thursday. Arizona Sen. John McCain has pledged the largest donation to the fund.
“The fact that more than 300 people from all across the United States have donated to the cause says a lot,” said attorney Jordan Rose, who has been retained by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, both of whom are named in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
More: http://bit.ly/9If8B2
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UPDATE: 7/20/10
Governor Brewer files answer to feds lawsuit against S1070. Story and copy of filing athttp://bit.ly/cGx5q8
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July 19th, 2010
NEWS RELEASE
Tim Gaffney, Pinal County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Babeu declines interviews and help from hate groups
During the past month, I have been inundated with media requests from local, national and international outlets to have Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu interviewed because of his outspoken need to secure our border. I have weeded out most all requests from any outlets or groups that have any connection with possible hate groups. Unfortunately, last week it appears that I may have let one such interview take place. The interview was requested from radio host Eddie Miller of WLRM Radio in Tennessee. I was told that they broadcast to 28 different states.
As I do with every interview, I checked the official website for the radio station as I was unfamiliar with it. Mr Miller told me that the interview was regarding “What can be done to help save America” and SB1070. I then called the WLRM Radio to verify that Mr. Miller was in fact a host. After confirming this information, I scheduled the interview for Sheriff Babeu and placed it on his calendar.
The first contact that Sheriff Babeu had with the radio station was when he called in live for the interview on July 10th. Sheriff Babeu provided the same content of information during the interview as he has during other interviews regarding our need to secure the border and SB1070.
Today, I have received several contacts from people asking why Sheriff Babeu was on what some may consider to be a ”White Nationalist Program.” I immediately checked the WLRM official website again and did not see any information that would have reflected this information. I learned from media outlets that the station has had groups in the past associated with these types of views. I immediately contacted Sheriff Babeu who was extremely disappointed that a station with those beliefs would have him on the air knowing how vocal and strongly opposed he is to these types of people and their beliefs. Sheriff Babeu has asked repeatedly that groups with these type of beliefs to have “No association with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.”
I contacted WLRM radio host Eddie Miller and canceled any future interviews or contact they may want to have with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. Mr. Miller told me that he does not belong to any “White Nationalist Program” nor does he associate with any. He told me that he was shocked because no such conversations took place before or during the interview.
I sincerely apologize to anybody that may have been offended by the fact that Sheriff Babeu did an interview on WLRM radio. Neither myself nor Sheriff Babeu had any belief that this group was connected in anyway with a “White Nationalist Program.” In the future, I will do a better job at screening the interview requests to prevent this from occurring again.
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UPDATES 7/19/10
Rants involved in effort to defend Arizona border sheriffs
The Iowa Republican
Christopher Rants’ political retirement didn’t last very long. The former Speaker of the Iowa House and gubernatorial candidate is involved in an effort to build a legal defense fund for two border sheriffs.
In the fall of 2008, Rants created The Legacy Foundation, a non-profit entity. The Legacy Foundation is now involved in the effort to defend the sheriffs that are being sued by the United States Justice Department and the ACLU for enforcing Arizona’s new immigration law.
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InMaricopa.com coverage: http://bit.ly/beggCV
UPDATES 7/18/10
Our View: Sheriffs solicit defense funds
Sierra Vista Herald
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced on a Phoenix radio station (KFYI) last week that they are launching a fund drive to protect them and their departments employees against possible lawsuits regarding Senate Bill 1070.
The announcement far from Cochise County, but in the heart of Arizona’s media center, was aimed squarely at ratcheting up the emotions surrounding the law, which may or may not take effect come July 29. The sheriffs have partnered with a nonprofit called The Legacy Foundation located in Des Moines, Iowa.
More: http://bit.ly/dvfKqq
UPDATE 7/17/10
GOP senators have bill to stop suit against S1070, also will file brief to support Az. http://www.roselawgroup.com/blog/wordpress/?p=10023
From: larryadever@msn.com
To: svhnews@transedge.com
Subject: letter to editor, SB1070 law suit
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:44:22 -0700
Phil,
The SB 1070 story relative to my and Sheriff Babeu’s activities is incorrect. I don’t know where it got off track, but here’s the deal.
When the ACLU, et. al. AKA “Friendly House” sued the State of Arizona over passage of SB 1070, they also sued each Arizona Sheriff and County Attorney, enjoining us from enforcing the law.
Then the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice also filed suit against the State. Although they did not name Sheriffs and County Attorneys in that suit, counties are sub-divisions of the State. Following that filing, Attorney General Holder announced, threatened, if you will, his intention to prosecute police officers accused of racial profiling associated with enforcement of the law.
Initially, it was my and the County Attorney’s intent to join the State Attorney General’s Office in defense of this suit. When the A.G. was removed from the case, that option evaporated and the response deadline had arrived.
So, in my behalf and at my request, the County Attorney filed a response that basically said we don’t have a dog in this fight and will abide by the findings of the court. That we will abide by the rulings of the court is a given, but after contemplating that move for a few days, I couldn’t live with it.
I, we the people of Cochise County, have fought this battle too hard for too long and have paid far too great a price to suddenly be relegated to sitting on our hands on the sidelines. Sheriff Babeu felt the same way as well as, I think, do millions of citizens across this nation. So, the Rose Law Group out of Scottsdale, with support from the Legacy Foundation, a non-profit based in Iowa, have joined us in this fight.
Through the Legacy Foundation, we are trying to raise funds for what is certain to be a long and arduous battle. With our own Justice Department holding hands with the ACLU, the challenge will be daunting. However, in a sense they have done us a big favor, providing a very high profile venue to elevate the dialogue and demonstrate to the American public the growing peril to our homeland of an unsecured border.
This a defense based effort, not a counter-suit. Other challenges will surely arise, but we intend to remain ardently engaged to the extent we are able and to the degree our supporters will allow. We are trying to do this without placing a huge burden on local tax payers by leveraging the support of others who have a vested interest.
I agree with your comment that to find ourselves in this situation is sad. Sad indeed, but it is what it is. We can deal with it, stand tall and listen to the whisperings of duty and honor, or cower under from continued threats to our security, even from those who should be helping us the most. For information about the cause and the Legacy Foundation, go to bordersheriffs.com.
Larry A. Dever
Senator John McCain Boosts Arizona Sheriffs’ Legal Defense Fund
Politico Mafioso blog http://bit.ly/bEM67q
UPDATE 7/16/10
NEWS RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
John McJunkin
602-740-2875
Or
Cochise County Public Information Officer – Carol Capas
520-432-9504
U.S. Senator John McCain Boosts Arizona Sheriffs’ Legal Defense Fund To Fight SB 1070 Lawsuit With Major Donation; Encourages Others To Follow His Lead At www.bordersheriffs.com
July 16, 2010 – U.S. Senator John McCain knows what it’s like to be on the front lines. And he’s giving a big boost to those on the front lines right now . . . in the fight against illegal immigration.
After hearing of the Legacy Foundation’s effort to raise money and provide legal defense to Arizona county sheriffs Paul Babeu and Larry Dever from the ACLU and US Dept of Justice lawsuits, McCain pledged a $5,000 contribution to the cause.
And he’s encouraging all patriots throughout the country to follow his lead and support these law enforcement leaders who need the help more than ever.
Dever’s Cochise County borders Mexico. Babeu’s Pinal County is a major corridor for human and drug smuggling. Both men are strong 1070 advocates, having served on the frontlines of the illegal immigration crisis and defended the American border against the stream of illegal-immigration-fueled criminal activity passing through their counties daily, for more than a decade. Dever’s Cochise County is largely considered Ground Zero for illegal immigration and its related crime, including the murder of rancher Robert Krentz.
Babeu and Dever have retained prominent attorney Jordan Rose and her firm, Rose Law Group pc, to defend the Sheriff’s Offices against federal litigation and explore any/all opportunities to countersue the federal government.
“Senator McCain is not on the fence when it comes to building our needed border fences and doing what must be done to stop illegal immigration,” Babeu and Dever said in a joint statement. “Senator McCain has again proved his mettle on the subject with his generous donation and a plan with U.S. Senator Jon Kyl that, if approved, would solve our border crisis.”
“There couldn’t be a much bigger boost on Day One of the legal defense fund than an endorsement and contribution from Senator McCain,” Jordan Rose said.
Funding for the legal defense will be provided by the Legacy Foundation an Iowa-based, non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) that views Arizona ‘s SB1070 debate as a national issue. Donations can be made at www.BorderSheriffs.com.
The Offices of Cochise County Sheriff Dever and Pinal County Sheriff Babeu are named personally in the lawsuit recently filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. These Sheriffs stand on the front lines of the border crisis given their patrol areas. And whereas the Arizona Governor is mounting a defense to recent litigation against the state, these men have been on the defensive for more than 30 years given a failed border-security and immigration program. They’ve declared it’s time to find a long term resolution to this problem.
“I have spent 30 years defending this border against both criminal and economic attacks against the United States,” Dever said. “To sue my office, for defending this nation and our local, state and federal laws is despicable.”
Babeu added, “Inaction is not an option. Local law enforcement has long-successfully enforced local, state and federal laws. Carving an exception for immigration is unacceptable.”
Lawsuits filed against Arizona and its law enforcement officials stand to cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. This defense will be funded not by already-tapped county coffers, but through private donations.
Formation of the defense fund and launch of www.bordersheriffs.com was announced on Clear Channel’s KFYI-AM radio station in Phoenix on Jim Sharpe’s Morning Show.
ABOUT ROSE LAW GROUP
Rose Law Group pc is a full service real estate and business law firm specializing in constitutional law, renewable energy, land use, zoning, government relations and lobbying, Immigration and employment law, trusts and estates, administrative law, transactional real estate, water law, Native American relations, infrastructure finance, special districts taxation, business formation/corporation issues and business litigation. They recently associated as a special of counsel to SB 1070 issues, Tim La Sota, who has long been involved in crafting and implementing legal strategies to fight illegal immigration. www.roselawgroup.com.
ABOUT LEGACY FOUNDATION
The Legacy Foundation is disappointed in the lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the US Department of Justice against Sheriffs Babeu, Dever and the state of Arizona. The Sheriffs needed financial resources to engage lawyers who believe in SB 1070 to make their best arguments for them. Legacy is happy to be able to provide this support, but needs donations from people passionate about the issue in order to do so. Donations through Legacy’s “BorderSheriffs.com” project will be used to pay for the legal defense of SB1070 on behalf of Pinal County Sheriff Babeu, and Cochise County Sheriff Dever.
The Legacy Foundation is a non-partisan organization recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This organization does not support or endorse candidates for election. Contributions or gifts to The Legacy Foundation are tax-deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent permitted by law.
UPDATE: 7/15/10
Jordan Rose on border enforcement on Fox News national radio:Fox Radio News 1 Fox Radio News 2-1
New Video: Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2
WASHINGTON (July 15, 2010) – “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens” is the Center for Immigration Studies’ second web-based film on the impact of illegal alien activity in Arizona. The Center’s first video on the subject, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails,” has received more than 52,000 views to date. This new 10-minute mini-documentary raises the bar, featuring footage of both illegal-alien entry as well as gun- and drug-smuggling. At minimum, the inescapable conclusion is that hidden cameras reveal a reality that illegal-alien activity is escalating.
The hidden camera footage, acquired from a variety of sources, indicates that there is an unfortunate lack of federal law enforcement presence on Arizona’s federal land on the border in Nogales, in the Coronado National Forest (15 miles inside the border), and the Casa Grande Sector (80 miles inside the border). Also significant to the story are responses received as part of Freedom of Information Act requests made by Janice Kephart, the Center’s Director of National Security Studies, in August 2009. Featured in the film is a 2004 federal government PowerPoint showing the near-complete devastation of a borderland national park due to illegal-alien activity, highlighting the disconnect between the situation on the ground in Arizona and Washington rhetoric.
“Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens,” is available online at: http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras2
The first film, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails,” is available at: http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras-IllegalImmigration
The blog describing the federal government response to the July 2009 video is available at: http://www.cis.org/Kephart/HiddenCamerasUpdate
All of the Center for Immigration Studies’ videos are available online at: http://cis.org/Videos
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July 15, 2010
Via Live, KFYI Press Conference Today, Border Sheriffs Announce Privately-Funded,
Strong Defense re: SB1070 and Possibility of Counter-Litigation
NEWS RELEASE
A non-partisan, non-profit organization – The Legacy Foundation – has agreed to raise money and provide legal defense to assist Arizona county sheriffs Paul Babeu and Larry Dever defend themselves against pro-amnesty interest groups and federal government lawsuits filed to prevent Arizona law enforcement officials from implementing SB1070, Arizona’s new illegal immigration law and to explore potential counter-litigation.
Dever’s county borders Mexico. Babeu’s county is a major corridor for human and drug smuggling. Both men are strong 1070 advocates, having served on the frontlines of the illegal immigration crisis and defended the American border against the stream of illegal-immigration-fueled criminal activity passing through their counties daily, for more than a decade. Dever’s Cochise County is largely considered Ground Zero for illegal immigration and its related crime, including the murder of rancher Robert Krentz.
Babeu and Dever have retained prominent Conservative Attorney Jordan Rose and her firm, Rose Law Group pc, to defend the Sheriff’s Offices against federal litigation and explore any/all opportunities to countersue the federal government.
“We are grateful to be able to provide the Sheriffs with the most aggressive and creative legal counsel as the lives of their men and women are on the line each day trying to enforce our laws,” Rose said.
The announcement was made today on a radio show hosted by Jim Sharpe on 550 KFYI in Phoenix. Sharpe has been a long-standing defender of 1070 and a caller’s suggestion on his show was the genesis of the fund. Sharpe has explored the hypocrisy of the federal government suing a state over a law that mirrors its own – with added safeguards against racial profiling that the federal law doesn’t include.
Funding for the legal defense will be provided by the Legacy Foundation an Iowa-based, non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) that views Arizona ’s SB1070 debate as a national issue. Donations can be made at
www.bordersheriffs.com
The Offices of Cochise County Sheriff Dever and Pinal County Sheriff Babeu are named personally in the lawsuit recently filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. These Sheriffs stand on the front lines of the border crisis given their patrol areas. And whereas the Arizona Governor is mounting a defense to recent litigation against the state, these men have been on the defensive for more than 30 years given a failed border-security and immigration program. They’ve declared it’s time to find a long-term resolution to this problem.
“I have spent 30 years defending this border against both criminal and economic attacks against the United States,” Dever said. “To sue my office, for defending this nation and our local, state and federal laws is despicable.”
Babeu added, “Inaction is not an option. Local law enforcement has long-successfully enforced local, state and federal laws. Carving an exception for immigration is unacceptable.”
Lawsuits filed against Arizona and its law enforcement officials stand to cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. This defense will be funded not by already-tapped county coffers, but through private donations.
ABOUT ROSE LAW GROUP
Rose Law Group pc is a full service real estate and business law firm specializing in constitutional law, renewable energy, land use, zoning, government relations and lobbying, Immigration and employment law, trusts and estates, administrative law, transactional real estate, water law, Native American relations, infrastructure finance, special districts taxation, business formation/corporation issues and business litigation. They recently associated as a special of counsel to SB 1070 issues, Tim La Sota, who has long been involved in crafting and implementing legal strategies to fight illegal immigration. http://bit.ly/bYYOvu
ABOUT JIM SHARPE
Jim hosts the 5-7 a.m. drive time show on Newstalk 550 KFYI. Sharpe began his radio career in Arizona as a high schooler and now enjoys one of the largest audiences to be found anywhere in his home state. He has covered major events both as a news reporter and as a highly-opinionated talk show host. Sharpe was named the 2006 Arizona Associated Press Reporter of the Year – in part for his coverage of the Iraq War as an embedded reporter.
ABOUT LEGACY FOUNDATION
The Legacy Foundation is disappointed in the lawsuits brought by the ACLU and the US Department of Justice against Sheriffs Babeu, Dever and the state of Arizona. The Sheriffs needed financial resources to engage lawyers who believe in SB 1070 to make their best arguments for them. Legacy is happy to be able to provide this support, but needs donations from people passionate about the issue in order to do so. Donations through Legacy’s “BorderSheriffs.com” project will be used to pay for the legal defense of SB1070 on behalf of Pinal County Sheriff Babeu, and Cochise County Sheriff Dever.
The Legacy Foundation is a non-partisan organization recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This organization does not support or endorse candidates for election. Contributions or gifts to The Legacy Foundation are tax-deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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- Sen. Russell Pearce
PHOENIX – The lawmaker who wrote Arizona’s new immigration law wants to have a say in a legal challenge to the law.
State Sen. Russell Pearce and other supporters of the law asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Wednesday for permission to file a “friend of the court” brief in a lawsuit by civil rights groups that are seeking to overturn the law, AP reported
Additional print and broadcast coverage below:
You Tube Segment 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A973wHgirxI
Segment 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrYzppM-tU
Segment 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1kAdfhthw
KFYI Radio http://kfyi.com/pages/local_news.html?feed=118695&article=7358728
KTAR Radio http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1314945
Arizona Daily Star http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_202104d4-9024-11df-8a89-001cc4c03286.html
Tucson Citizen http://tucsoncitizen.com/hot-off-the-press-release/2010/07/15/legal-defense-fund-created-to-support-border-sheriffs-on-frontline-of-both-sb-1070-and-the-u-s-border-crisis/
KTVK – 3 http://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/Arizona-sheriffs-weigh-in-on-Senate-Bill-1070-lawsuits–98515104.html
KPHO – 5http://www.kpho.com/news/24271368/detail.html
KVOA – 9 http://www.kvoa.com/news/non-profit-organization-providing-legal-defense-for-arizona-sheriffs/
Phoenix Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/07/12/daily45.html
East Valley Tribune http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/article_18a58b94-904c-11df-a845-001cc4c002e0.html
Fox 10 http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/border-sheriffs-announce-creation-of-legal-fund-07152010
Police Magazine http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Patrol/News/2010/07/15/Two-Southern-Arizona-Sheriffs-Set-Up-Legal-Defense-Fund.aspx
The Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2010/07/15/20100715arizona-sheriffs-immigration-law-legal-defense-fund-.html
Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/07/16/why-arizona-cops-have-sued-over-new-immigration-law/
A push for action on renewables
