Advocacy Groups Assail Immigration Enforcement Program - washingtonpost.com: Immigrant advocacy groups on Friday assailed a Department of Homeland Security decision to continue deputizing state and local law enforcement agents to catch illegal immigrants, saying the department's new rules aimed at curbing racial profiling by police were inadequate.
Critics focused their fire at the continuing participation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose Phoenix-based agency has produced the largest number of arrests under the federal program and who is under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged civil rights violations. DHS terminated Maricopa deputies' authority to investigate federal immigration violators in the community, but allowed them to continue checking for illegal immigrants already in jail.
