Flutterby™! : Sheriff making up law

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 Arpaio’s 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 who’s to say I’m 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.