Trump pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio

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Dave70968

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According to the attached URL (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325) illegal immigration IS a Federal offense as well as a civil one, unless I'm reading this incorrectly. If so, then former Sheriff Joe may be guilty of crimes like illegal detention of US citizens, but not detention or arrest of illegal aliens.
Improper time or place is civil; marriage fraud and entrepreneurship fraud are criminal.
 

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You are correct in that the Administrative Agencies can delegate some authority, but that's at their discretion. It's not up to the state/local level to subsume that authority on its own--hence the quote in the order that “states do not have the inherent authority....” There's no violation of the Supremacy Clause if fed.gov passes a law pursuant to the Constitution allowing delegation (which would include the Administrative Procedures Act, giving subdelegation authority to the original delegate, the administrative agency). That just seemed like too esoteric an argument even for me, but yes, you're entirely correct.

I include it simply because Maricopa Co. did in fact have a 287(g) MOA in effect, which was then rescinded by Janet Napolitano in 2011 after the DoJ report was released. Maricopa Co. didn't subsume it, they simply refused to stop what they'd already been trained and certified to do when the MOA was pulled.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news...ls-because-of-civil-rights-violations-6631025

287(g) is ramping back up under Trump, but I doubt if MCSO will be a participant this time around, even with Arpaio gone.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/51928...-police-to-help-ice-agents-gets-mixed-reviews
 

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