08-15-2015, 04:20 PM
I'm glad Sheriff Joe's case was thrown out.
I like that he's tough on crime and he's an interesting character. But, his correlations between increased crime/LE burden and deportation relief were bogus, in my opinion.
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Snip:
A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit on Friday from Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio over President Barack Obama's deportation relief, agreeing with a lower court that the hardline sheriff had no standing in this case to sue over undocumented immigrant policy.
The three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel -- two appointed by Obama and one by then-President George W. Bush -- unanimously upheld a lower court's decision to dismiss the case.
The point of the proceeding was simply to establish whether the Maricopa County sheriff could even bring his lawsuit, not to decide the issues he raised. Arpaio argued that Obama's policies suspending deportation for certain undocumented immigrants cause him and his county "harm" by driving up the number of unauthorized immigrants and thereby increasing crime, leading to more people in the local jail. He and his lawyer, Larry Klayman, claimed that this had already happened after the president began the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Arpaio was seeking to stop along with a newer deportation reprieve program for parents.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims that President Obama's deportation policies could drive up his county's jail population.
The judges weren't convinced. Writing for the court, Judge Nina Pillard held that Arpaio had "failed to allege an injury that is both fairly traceable to the deferred action policies and redressable by enjoining them." She called his claim that deferred deportations would lead to more crime in Maricopa County "unduly speculative."
"Projected increases he anticipates in the county's policing burden and jail population rest on chains of supposition and contradict acknowledged realities," Pillard wrote.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sher...ostpopular
I like that he's tough on crime and he's an interesting character. But, his correlations between increased crime/LE burden and deportation relief were bogus, in my opinion.
Snip:
A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit on Friday from Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio over President Barack Obama's deportation relief, agreeing with a lower court that the hardline sheriff had no standing in this case to sue over undocumented immigrant policy.
The three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel -- two appointed by Obama and one by then-President George W. Bush -- unanimously upheld a lower court's decision to dismiss the case.
The point of the proceeding was simply to establish whether the Maricopa County sheriff could even bring his lawsuit, not to decide the issues he raised. Arpaio argued that Obama's policies suspending deportation for certain undocumented immigrants cause him and his county "harm" by driving up the number of unauthorized immigrants and thereby increasing crime, leading to more people in the local jail. He and his lawyer, Larry Klayman, claimed that this had already happened after the president began the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Arpaio was seeking to stop along with a newer deportation reprieve program for parents.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims that President Obama's deportation policies could drive up his county's jail population.
The judges weren't convinced. Writing for the court, Judge Nina Pillard held that Arpaio had "failed to allege an injury that is both fairly traceable to the deferred action policies and redressable by enjoining them." She called his claim that deferred deportations would lead to more crime in Maricopa County "unduly speculative."
"Projected increases he anticipates in the county's policing burden and jail population rest on chains of supposition and contradict acknowledged realities," Pillard wrote.
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sher...ostpopular