Just doing his job - Sheriff Joe Arpaio

It seems that there is a conflict between Homeland Security and the Sheriff's department of Maricopa County, Az. From Officer.com:
Arizona Sheriff Balks at Feds' Enforcement Change
The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has never gotten so much resistance from the federal government.

The Homeland Security Department wants Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., to stop arresting illegal immigrants whose only crime was crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without documents.

The thing is, Arpaio doesn't much care.

"I'm not going to bend to the federal government, I'm going to do my job," he said. "I don't report to the federal government, I report to the people."

Shifting winds in Washington have led the Homeland Security Department to rework a federal program that has allowed Arpaio's deputies to make federal immigration arrests since February 2007.

It's not yet known whether Arpaio - who has 160 deputies and jail officers trained to make federal immigration arrests and speed up deportations - will sign the new deal.

If he doesn't, the feds say he would lose his authority to make any federal immigration arrests.

The revamped program would require Arpaio to clear plans for immigration sweeps beforehand with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and coordinate with ICE before releasing information about such enforcement actions to the news media.
Emphasis mine -- just another governmental power grab. Arpaio does a better job than they do so rather than improving their performance, they try to insert themselves between Arpaio and the Media. And these are the people we want ruining running our health care?

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