Sheriff making up law
2009-10-20 17:16:40.430647+00 by
Dan Lyke
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been using a made-up law citation, 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii), as justification for some of his actions.
He claimed the LII as the source of that law. There is no such sub-section in the US Code. No such text appears on our web site, or ever has a fact easily discovered by reporters who went to our site. Instead, the text in Arpaios presser was made up by an anti-immigration group in Connecticut. It looks awfully official, though. You can read this story in newspapers and blogs here, here, and here and you probably should, because this is the Internet, and whos to say Im not making things up, too? I thought Stephen Lemons story in the Phoenix New Times gave a good account of the legal-information side of the story.
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-10-20 17:50:06.515867+00 by:
ebradway
I'm sure, as you're getting more involved with politics, you realize the
difficulty the folks "on the ground" have trying to figure out the rules and
regulations (i.e., laws). I deal with it all the time with my work for the DOI -
it effects niddling details like what airline I'm allowed to travel on (not
necessarily lowest cost) or what hotel I'm allowed to stay in on official
business. Of course, it doesn't excuse someone for being an ass, unnecessarily.