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Sheriff Joe questions why feds keep releasing illegal aliens after he arrests them

Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Sheriff Joe Arpaio

MARICOPA COUNTY – The controversy surrounding an illegal alien who has been recently charged with killing two California sheriff’s deputies and wounding another has taken on fresh urgency as Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona reveals the details of his prior four arrests by Maricopa County local law enforcement.

Moreover, says the Sheriff, the history surrounding this one illegal alien exposes the inherent dishonesty and ineptitude surrounding the federal government approach to illegal immigration.

For the past 9 months, Sheriff Arpaio, whose jails constitute the third largest system in the country, has been demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explain why the agency keeps releasing illegal aliens convicted of crimes back onto the streets of Maricopa County, located just 30 miles from the border. In pursuit of answers, the Sheriff has written to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the head of ICE, and the DHS Inspector General, never receiving an adequate response.

“I am calling for a congressional hearing,” states Arpaio, “to find out why illegal aliens arrested by my deputies and other police officers for often serious crimes are handed over to ICE, only to end up back in my jail, arrested again on more charges. Either ICE is letting these individuals go out the back door, free to commit more crimes, or is the border so open that even though they’re being deported they turn around and immediately return?”

The statistics are daunting: For the past 9 months, back to the beginning of 2014, of the approximately 4,000 ICE detainers placing on incoming criminal offenders arrested by local police and Sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, a stunning 1,382, translating to 38% of the total, were repeat offenders. Nor were these necessarily minor crimes, but encompass the full range of criminal offenses, including kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, child molestation, sexual abuse, conspiracy, dangerous drugs, and more.

Now we have the case Marcelo Marquez, known by his alias Luis Bracamonte to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), which has had him in custody 4 times. Incarcerated for the first time in the county in 1996 for the sale of narcotic drugs and other felonies, he spent 4 months in Arpaio’s Tent-City Jail before being released to ICE in 1997. His fate from that point on, whether he was deported or released, is unknown.

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