NEWS MAX: Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, violated the constitutional rights of Latinos who were stopped and detained as part of a crackdown on illegal immigrants, a federal judge said…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “has no authority to detain people based only on reasonable suspicion, or probable cause, without more, that such persons are in this country without authorization,” [U.S. District Judge G. Murray ] Snow said in an 142-page ruling. “It is not a violation of federal criminal law to be in this country without authorization in and of itself.”
The judge forbade the sheriff’s office from detaining Latino drivers and passengers only on the suspicion they are illegal immigrants or to use race or Latino ancestry as a reason to stop a vehicle. The sheriff’s office was also ordered not to detain Latinos stopped for a traffic violation longer than needed to resolve the violation if there was no reason to believe they broke the law… (more)
