President Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

The White House announced that President Trump has pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The White House said 85-year-old Arpaio was a “worthy candidate” for the pardon, citing his “life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration.” Trump granted the pardon less than a month after Arpaio was found guilty of a misdemeanor contempt-of-court charge.

Then Sheriff Arpaio was held in contempt of court by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee.

Wikipedia notes this about Judge Bolton’s decision:

In July 2010, Bolton heard arguments on three of seven lawsuits related to the Arizona SB 1070 immigration law, the most notable of which is United States v. Arizona.

On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Bolton issued a ruling blocking small portions of SB 1070, writing that “requiring police to check the immigration status of those they arrest or whom they stop and suspect are in the country illegally would overwhelm the federal government’s ability to respond, and could mean legal immigrants are wrongly arrested.” Judge Bolton wrote: “Federal resources will be taxed and diverted from federal enforcement priorities as a result of the increase in requests for immigration status determination that will flow from Arizona.”

On September 5, 2012, Judge Bolton cleared the way for police to carry out the 2010 law’s requirement that officers, while enforcing other laws, may question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. This part of the law has been called the “show me your papers” provision.

On July 31, 2017, Judge Bolton filed her “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” holding former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio in criminal contempt of court for violating an injunction. President Trump pardoned Arpiao [sic] on August 25 2017.

President Trump’s action sends a strong message to all members of law enforcement that if you do your job, under the law, you do not need to fear that your career will be put in jeopardy.

Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in an email writes:

I just received some incredibly good news! President Trump has just issued a pardon on my behalf.

Honestly, I could not be more thankful to President Trump for seeing my bogus conviction for what it was: a political witch hunt by hold overs from the Obama justice department.

I am certain that President Trump was able to see the TRUTH so clearly because he too has been the victim of a character assassination by the liberal media and Democrat establishment on many occasions

Immediately after this Presidential pardon, the first of the Trump administration, the pro-illegal alien cartel came out in full force to condemn freeing the 85-year old Arpaio from jail time.

ABC, CBS, USA Today, CNN and Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake condemned President Trump’s action.

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio outside the Maricopa County 4th Avenue Jail facility in Phoenix. The new vans which are used for transporting prisoners and illegal workers to the jail are painted with huge signs and a 800 number requesting the public’s help with reporting Illegal worker / resident/ aliens/ migrant workers. The big doors lead into the jail prisoner booking area. Photo by A.T. Willett of A.T. Willett Fine Art.

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