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AMHERST, NH -- There's a new sheriff in town. Well, in the greater Manchester area, anyway.
Continuing an aggressive push to soothe conservatives' fears on his immigration record, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday touted the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and called for the deportation of all detained illegal immigrants.
"Amnesty is not on the table, period," Perry declared at a diner in Amherst, NH, this morning, the first stop where the tough-talking Arizona sheriff joined him on the campaign trail. "There will be no amnesty in the United States. We're a country of laws."
Arpaio, who is known for his vehement support for Arizona's tough immigration laws, said it was "a pleasure and honor" to back the Texas governor, whom he called "an honorable and ethical person with a great family."
"He doesn't just talk about it," Arpaio said of Perry's work on border security. "He does something about it."
Perry used tough language to describe the White House's immigration laws; he promised to detain and deport non-violent as well as violent illegal immigrants who are apprehended by law enforcers.
"The Obama administration has a catch-and-release policy where nonviolent illegal aliens are released into the general public," said Perry. "My policy will be to detain and to deport every illegal alien that we apprehend. That is how you stop this. And we'll do it with expedited hearings so that millions of illegal immigrants are not released into the general population until a hearing date's set several weeks or months later as we have now."
Perry had found his position on immigration assailed by presidential primary opponents after he stuck by a policy he had implemented as governor, which granted in-state college tuition to the children of illegal immigrants. Perry said during a debate that opponents of that policy were heartless, but he had since backtracked on those comments.
The Arpaio endorsement allows Perry a degree of pushback on those concerns, especially as conservatives now turn their attention to the resurgent former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, who has stood by his policy of a limited path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who have laid down roots in the U.S.
"Several of my friends have said I'm for amnesty. That's not true. At least one of them has run around saying I want to have amnesty for 11 million people. That's just totally false. That's in fact an Obama level quality statement," Gingrich said yesterday in South Carolina.
Perry acknowledged that he didn't have "all the answers" on how to deal with those illegal immigrants who have been in the country for many years and called for "an appropriate discussion" on Capitol Hill.
"We have to identify everybody that's here. And there's going to be an appropriate discussion with Congress on how to deal with an individual who has been here maybe for some long period of time."
Asked by a voter about Texas's granting of in-state tuition for the children of some illegal immigrants - an issue since Perry's comment that those who disagree with the educational benefits "don't have a heart" - Perry said (as he has before in radio interviews) that his remark was "inappropriate."
Speaking to reporters after the event at Joey's diner, Arpaio would not respond to questions about whether or not he agrees with the governor's tuition policy.
Arpaio, who supported Mitt Romney last cycle, said that while Romney's position on immigration has improved, he's backing Perry this time because of the governor's Texas experience.
Perry has three more events in New Hampshire Tuesday and two on Wednesday.
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Well, that settles it...
Perry wins... right?
Sheriff Joe is crazier than a sh!t house rat!
It's no wonder he would endorse Pretty Boy Perry!
Perry/Sheriff Joe - 2012!
What could be better for President Obama in Arizona than for Sheriff Joe to endorse Rick Perry?
Well, I suppose it could get better.
Maybe they'll post a few pictures from their hunting trips into the desert.
And here we go again. Anyone who has the audacity to take Gingrich at his word is lying. This time it's Rick Santorum.
Just for the sake of clarity, here's what Newt said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/rick-santorum-hits-newt-gingrich-on-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants/
If this ISN'T a call for some kind of amnesty for those illegal immigrants already here, then exactly what is it?
Now, Slick Rick is kissing up when he has said that the
........Arizona papers please law would not be right for Texas!
Yeah, Arpaio for Perry, Perry for Arpaio...it's love!
That sheriff ping,ping,ping ricochet rabit! Has a fetish for dressing up pink underwear on men{inmates},uh oh,the gop-teabag clown car is coming.....This time with cherries & berries on top!................Obama/Biden 2012
This will start the conversation that will put Newt back on the sidelines.
Failure endorsing failure.........POOF!!!
Wow--what an ringing endorsement! I am sure it will help a lot! Snark Snark!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
So while this sheriff is in New Hampshire politickin'... who's minding the store back home?
The "kiss of death" endorsement. Only deadlier one for a campaign would be Dick Cheney's! Come on Dick, endorse someone already.
Where is the Wasilla Village Idiot?
She endorsed Slick Rick for Governor last year!
What happened to her new digs that reportedly was being built in Phoenix?
I live in arizona and sheriff Joe is crazy as hell. Under his watch his own administration extorted money from the state. Conservative thinking hardly. Very wasteful. As for as immigration the people who want to deport all these people are the same ones that created the problem so they can make an extra buck. He still doesn't find or prosecute the companies that hire illegals. Don't let him fool you.
I suspect most aren't fooled by those 'walking tall' theatrics. Seems like the harder they blather, the deeper their hypocrisy and corruption.
[I suspect most aren't fooled by those 'walking tall' theatrics.]
Uhm, only the ENTIRE GOP/Tea Party....
...damn bubblegum stuck to mah shooze...
his endorsement is the kiss of death...
These Right Wing Radicals are sure full of it.
Arpaio wouldn't know honorable or ethical if it was standing right in front of him, wearing pink underwear. He is a horrible, horrible person. A racist, corrupt, lying, thieving, hateful, egotistical prick.
"I have only just begun to fight!"
U.S. Grant
"I have only just begun to fight!"
U.S. Grant
Gentalman
Republican Newt Gingrich will have key tribulations in his electoral race, on a fact that illegal migrants violated the law not once, but in a substantial number of cases--twice over. That is the use of citizens or legal residents ID. Even twenty five years ago, unquestionably you had to possess a driver’s license, Social Security number as you do today. I personally carried my ID, just in case I was stopped by the authorities. Use of fraudulent ID, no matter the situation, specifically if they belong to a deceased person, a new child or as (as I even heard,) stolen from our warrior-soldiers fighting abroad. Hundreds of thousands of American have found out somebody has used their personal identities. But Federal appeals courts have been split over, whether the defendant must know that the phony ID numbers belongs to a real person.
Defense lawyers have argued that their clients should not be charged with stealing another individuals identity since the immigrants only were seeking papers, so they could get a job? The illegal aliens didn’t know if the numbers were fictitious or belonged to someone else, their lawyers say. That is a mindless excuse, as to think illegal aliens are stupid possessing any document to deceive an employer; but then the business owners are well aware of the sham, but hire the discount labor anyway. The Federal appeals courts based in Atlanta and Richmond also have ruled in the administrations favor in comparable cases, while the appeals court in Washington, D.C., sided with defendants. The ruling rejected an significant deterrent for prosecuting and deporting illegal aliens, who have been victimizing innocent Americans by stealing their identities to get jobs in America. Whether they are using someone’s stolen ID or not, they should be deported, whether they have been here one year or twenty five years, they should fingerprinted through ‘Secure Communities’ or through ICE detention. This is why American workers desperately need a Mandatory nationwide E-Verify program.
The American people cannot be apathetic anymore, as it is time to enforce our immigration laws. The E-Verify program that has gained notoriety, but not popular screeching columns of the Liberal press, the special interest lobbyists or radical open border and other so called anomaly organizations. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS FREE MONEY AND LARGE PROFITS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE IN CONGRESS, WHILE AMERICAN LABOR IS STILL TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL HIRE THEM. ALL I KNOW IS THAT EVERY YEAR THE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IS RISING FACT, TO FINANCIALLY ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IN THIS SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. ONE OF THE ABSURD BUT OUTRAGEOUS CIRCUMSTANCES FROM THIS IMPASSE IS THEY PROTEST IN THE STREETS DEMANDING EQUAL RIGHTS TO CITIZENS AND NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
I’M SURPRISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HASN”T GIVEN THESE ILLEGAL FINANCIAL LEECHES THE RIGHT TO VOTE; OR HAVE THEY? DEMOCRATS ESPECIALLY ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE LAWS, SO YOU DON’T NEED OFFICIAL PICTURE ID TO VOTE. ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE VOTING AND WILL AGAIN.
Illegal Immigration is a conspiracy against the American people; otherwise it would be a straight FELONY, with prison time. All patriotic American should fight for a new law, that convicts these people or we will never be able to relinquish the hold of the $15 Trillion deficit. Why in god’s honest truth should we be forced by federal courts to pay part of our income to subsidize foreign nationals who have no legal right to be here?
The time has come to build the real fence from Texas to California covering the whole 2500 miles with double-layer fencing. It is also the time to contact the Ways and Means Committee responsible for bringing ‘The Legal Workforce Act’, bill H.R.2885 to the House floor in Congress. Only the American voter or legal resident has a say in this urgent matter, which will produce large numbers of jobs STOLEN by the 8.2 illegal workers as estimated to self-deport. The number to call for the Washington political phones is 202-224-3121. The legislators need to listen to the People, instead of misleading us anymore. If you have further questions, go to the NumbersUSA via Google and study the facts of years of the fabrication and idiom we absorb through the Leftist associated newspapers or the politicians.
Learn what is happening around America, that President Obama’s administration doesn’t want you to know or the Leftist Progressive presses at AMERICAN PATROL The latest news is that (65%) or three Quarters of the population in a Rasmussen poll oppose birthright citizenship of 300.000 foothold babies smuggled into America; the costs of hospital, education and a mass of other expenditures falls to taxpayers.
Republican Newt Gingrich will have key tribulations in his electoral race, on a fact that illegal migrants violated the law not once, but in a substantial number of cases--twice over. That is the use of citizens or legal residents ID. Even twenty five years ago, unquestionably you had to possess a driver’s license, Social Security number as you do today. I personally carried my ID, just in case I was stopped by the authorities. Use of fraudulent ID, no matter the situation, specifically if they belong to a deceased person, a new child or as (as I even heard,) stolen from our warrior-soldiers fighting abroad. Hundreds of thousands of American have found out somebody has used their personal identities. But Federal appeals courts have been split over, whether the defendant must know that the phony ID numbers belongs to a real person.
Defense lawyers have argued that their clients should not be charged with stealing another individuals identity since the immigrants only were seeking papers, so they could get a job? The illegal aliens didn’t know if the numbers were fictitious or belonged to someone else, their lawyers say. That is a mindless excuse, as to think illegal aliens are stupid possessing any document to deceive an employer; but then the business owners are well aware of the sham, but hire the discount labor anyway. The Federal appeals courts based in Atlanta and Richmond also have ruled in the administrations favor in comparable cases, while the appeals court in Washington, D.C., sided with defendants. The ruling rejected an significant deterrent for prosecuting and deporting illegal aliens, who have been victimizing innocent Americans by stealing their identities to get jobs in America. Whether they are using someone’s stolen ID or not, they should be deported, whether they have been here one year or twenty five years, they should fingerprinted through ‘Secure Communities’ or through ICE detention. This is why American workers desperately need a Mandatory nationwide E-Verify program.
The American people cannot be apathetic anymore, as it is time to enforce our immigration laws. The E-Verify program that has gained notoriety, but not popular screeching columns of the Liberal press, the special interest lobbyists or radical open border and other so called anomaly organizations. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS FREE MONEY AND LARGE PROFITS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE IN CONGRESS, WHILE AMERICAN LABOR IS STILL TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL HIRE THEM. ALL I KNOW IS THAT EVERY YEAR THE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IS RISING FACT, TO FINANCIALLY ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IN THIS SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. ONE OF THE ABSURD BUT OUTRAGEOUS CIRCUMSTANCES FROM THIS IMPASSE IS THEY PROTEST IN THE STREETS DEMANDING EQUAL RIGHTS TO CITIZENS AND NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
I’M SURPRISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HASN”T GIVEN THESE ILLEGAL FINANCIAL LEECHES THE RIGHT TO VOTE; OR HAVE THEY? DEMOCRATS ESPECIALLY ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE LAWS, SO YOU DON’T NEED OFFICIAL PICTURE ID TO VOTE. ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE VOTING AND WILL AGAIN.
Illegal Immigration is a conspiracy against the American people; otherwise it would be a straight FELONY, with prison time. All patriotic American should fight for a new law, that convicts these people or we will never be able to relinquish the hold of the $15 Trillion deficit. Why in god’s honest truth should we be forced by federal courts to pay part of our income to subsidize foreign nationals who have no legal right to be here?
The time has come to build the real fence from Texas to California covering the whole 2500 miles with double-layer fencing. It is also the time to contact the Ways and Means Committee responsible for bringing ‘The Legal Workforce Act’, bill H.R.2885 to the House floor in Congress. Only the American voter or legal resident has a say in this urgent matter, which will produce large numbers of jobs STOLEN by the 8.2 illegal workers as estimated to self-deport. The number to call for the Washington political phones is 202-224-3121. The legislators need to listen to the People, instead of misleading us anymore. If you have further questions, go to the NumbersUSA via Google and study the facts of years of the fabrication and idiom we absorb through the Leftist associated newspapers or the politicians.
Learn what is happening around America, that President Obama’s administration doesn’t want you to know or the Leftist Progressive presses at AMERICAN PATROL The latest news is that (65%) or three Quarters of the population in a Rasmussen poll oppose birthright citizenship of 300.000 foothold babies smuggled into America; the costs of hospital, education and a mass of other expenditures falls to taxpayers.
"Scary Perry" is still very politically scary, and is spewing the Koch Brothers Economic Plan for America. Well maybe it is good that "Scary Perry." Has the support of someone who carries a weapon. "Paranoid Perry" likes to carry a gun to which is very scary. Again! Just like "Crazy Cain" old "Scary Perry" does not like to read. So none of these Tea Beggers know how to read. All Presidents must know how to think, read, and research all issues covering all areas. Here is a good question America?? How can "Crazy Cain" promote his book? When he does not like to read?? Maybe in a GOP Circus Act? They will shoot each other by mistake under the GOP Circus Big Top.