{"id":31426,"date":"2017-08-26T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31426"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:52:22","slug":"convicted-for-doing-his-job-now-pardoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31426","title":{"rendered":"Convicted For Doing His Job, Now Pardoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS New<\/a>s is reporting today that President Trump has pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio<\/a>. Sheriff Arpaio was convicted of misdemeanor criminal contempt of court stemming from a civil rights lawsuit that accused him of racially profiling Latinos in the course of his law enforcement duties. He faced six months in jail. Sheriff Arpaio is 85 years old. He was checking the immigration status of Latinos because many Latinos were illegally immigrating to Maricopa County. It would have been a waste of time and money to check the immigration status of other groups. He might have found a few illegals, but the effort was better spent in the Latino community. To do otherwise is the equivalent of stopping little old ladies at a checkpoint when the description of the bank robber you are looking for says six-feet tall and about thirty-five years old.<\/p>\n

The article includes the following statement from The White House Office of the Press Secretary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today, President Donald J. Trump<\/a> granted a Presidential pardon<\/a> to Joe Arpaio, former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona<\/a>.\u00a0 Arpaio\u2019s life and career, which began at the age of 18 when he enlisted in the military after the outbreak of the Korean War, exemplify selfless public service.\u00a0 After serving in the Army, Arpaio became a police officer in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas, NV<\/a> and later served as a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a> (DEA), formerly the Bureau of Narcotics.\u00a0 After 25 years of admirable service, Arpaio went on to lead the DEA\u2019s branch in Arizona<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1992, the problems facing his community pulled Arpaio out of retirement to return to law enforcement.\u00a0 He ran and won a campaign to become Sheriff of Maricopa County<\/a>.\u00a0 Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life\u2019s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.\u00a0 Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For whatever reason, the Obama Administration supported illegal immigration. The Obama Justice Department attacked Governor Jan Brewer<\/a> of Arizona when she tried to enforce immigration laws that were already on the books. Sheriff Arpaio was attacked simply because he chose to uphold the law. Despite the howls we will hear from the political left, President Trump did the right thing in pardoning Sheriff Arpaio.<\/p>\n

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