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Feds Rein In Fiery Sheriff on Immigration Checks

Joe Arpaio calls officials 'liars,' vows to continue sweeps

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 7, 2009 9:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – The self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” was not pleased. Homeland Security yesterday stripped Joe Arpaio’s deputies of the power to make immigration arrests in the field as though they were ICE agents, sending the flamboyant Phoenix-area cop into a sputtering, rambling outburst, the...   Read full story »

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