Arizona sheriff targeted by Mexican cartel with $1 million bounty

by: jim kouri | published: 08 04, 2010

The good news for Arizonians is that Maricopa County -- which includes Phoenix -- has a tough law enforcement commander to protect them. The bad news is that a Mexican drug cartel has placed a $1 million bounty on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head.

According to MyFoxPhoenix.com, a man who requested anonymity claims his wife received a text message included an international phone number and instructions to pass the message along on Tuesday evening. The message placed a $1 million bounty on Sheriff Arpaio's head and a $1 thousand incentive to join the drug cartel..

Lisa Allen of the Sheriff's office told MyFoxPhoenix.com that they believe the message originated in Mexico. Although the Sheriff routinely received death threats in the past, they believe this threat is credible because of its timing.

While the pleas from American citizens in Arizona and other states fell on deaf ears in Washington, DC, the violence and crime at the U.S.-Mexico border continues unabated. Sheriff Arpaio has been targeted by the Obama Justice Department and Democrats in his own state because of his tough immigration enforcement policy.

Meanwhile, a deadly Mexican gang is actively plotting to kill U.S. law enforcement officers and their families in Texas, according to a Department of Homeland Security alert that warns U.S. cops to wear body armor and vary routes to avoid being tracked.

The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars to fight Mexican drug cartels yet they continue to be the nation’s largest supplier of illicit narcotics and violent Mexican gangs have expanded into every region of the country, including idyllic rural areas.

"This is hardly earth-shattering news since Mexico has long represented the single greatest drug trafficking threat to the U.S., despite Uncle Sam's multi billion-dollar effort to halt the northbound flow of narcotics. The costly investment has failed miserably, according to a federal report that reveals Mexican heroin production has actually doubled in the last year," state officials from the public-interest group Judicial Watch.

In the absence of federal enforcement a Mexican border state -- Arizona -- drowning in an illegal immigration pandemic has passed legislation that bans “sanctuary city” policies and makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documentation.

The law marks an unprecedented effort by an American state to take immigration matters into its own hands since immigration offenses are currently violations of federal law that cannot be enforced by local police. But lawmakers in Arizona are fed up with the enormous toll that illegal aliens are having on their state as the feds sit idly by and fail to secure the southern border, according to a Judicial Watch report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

In the past few years they’ve chipped away at the crisis with other measures, though this is by far the most hard-hitting and definitely among the country’s toughest immigration enforcement laws. The measure, passed this week by the Arizona House and previously approved by the Senate, grants police the power to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone suspected of being illegal and requires foreign nationals to carry proof of legal residency. This includes the man known as "America's sheriff" Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.

Illegal aliens will be charged in state court with trespassing and anyone -- documented or undocumented --seeking work from a road or sidewalk will also be criminally prosecuted. Drivers who pick up illegal alien day laborers will also be punished when the law kicks in.

Predictably, immigration advocates are incensed and have called on Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto the measure which they assert is racist. The legal director of an influential national group La Raza that represents day laborers calls it an "unconstitutional, unwise and odious bill" created by “demagogue leaders” who have become folk heroes for “white supremacists” throughout the country.

Arizona lawmakers have long searched for ways to curb the colossal impact that illegal immigration has had on their state. A few years ago they enacted a law that punishes businesses that hire illegal immigrants, though the state has not penalized a single employer. Legislators allocated the sufficient funds (about $5 million) to enforce the law but a chunk of the money remains largely unspent by counties throughout the state, according to the JW report.

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  Joe M

  Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, the chief law enforcement officer of the state, should declare that the judgement against her state by a federal judge, null and void! The governor is responsible for the protection of her state and her people. The gross negligance of the federal government and the attacks on Arizona by the Obama regime proves that Arizona is dealing with 2 enemies to its existance,1 from within,1 from without. The governor should declare their tenth amendment rights under the US constitution, and let the chips fall where they may. What other choice do they have? Draw a line in the sand,it's us (the US citizens) or it's them (the invaders,murderers and drug dealers). The overwhelming majority of the citizens of this country want this invasion to stop, but the Obama regime doesn't. Whatever the outcome of Arizona will be the outcome of all the U.S. Let's pray sanity rules the day!

  
  

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