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Exclusive – Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Donald Trump Should Go to Mexico with Me
Breitbart / Big-Government
Matthew Boyle
8/26/2015
Excerpt:
PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—known here simply as “Sheriff Joe”—loves 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and wants to accompany him on a trip to Mexico that would, in his estimation, either lead to a show of U.S. force in getting that country to come to the table on immigration and trade or expose that Mexico is uninterested in solving such problems.
“I want to go to Mexico,” Arpaio told Breitbart News in a wide-ranging, nearly two-hour long interview in his office at the Maricopa County justice complex in downtown Phoenix. “I’ve gotten resistance from the Mexican government, I’ve got resistance from the federal government here. It’s all got to do with danger. Come on? I’m not worried about it. It’s probably got to do with politics, not danger. Right?”
Arpaio pulled out for Breitbart News a print off of the congressional record from 1970 where he praised the Mexican government for working with U.S. law enforcement—at the time he was a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Arpaio was stationed at one point in Mexico for the DEA, and in the testimony he gave to Congress he laid out how at that time the Mexican government worked with the United States to stop crime and aimed to end illegal immigration. “Here I’m praising the Mexican government, the judges, that’s 1970 when I lived there and worked there,” Arpaio said. “So I want to go. I want to meet with officials.”
“Let’s get to Trump now,” Arpaio said, moving the conversation along to the 2016 debates. “He’s talking about the fence, okay, or the wall, alright. I’ve been fighting this battle since I was a federal narcotics agent in 1957 because even then the drugs were all coming from Mexico. Even back in 1957—now if he wants to put a wall up, that’s okay, if it’s a good one. Now these fences you can hop over any day.”
Arpaio said he’s furious with career politicians who keep campaigning on empty promises to do something about illegal immigration. He’s not endorsing Trump yet, but he’s open to the possibility down the road. He’s most concerned with Trump proving he’s in this thing for the long haul. Being the sheriff of the fourth most populous county in America–Maricopa has nearly 4 million people–makes his endorsement well-sought-after from GOP candidates for president.
“All these politicians, they say the same thing—‘oh we’re going to put drones’—everybody talks,” Arpaio said. “I’ve been involved in all these campaigns. The last election, everybody running for president—seven of them?—two of them came here. Every one of them I met with. They all wanted my endorsement. I settled with Rick Perry, and did Iowa with him. But every election, ‘we’re going to do something, we’re going to do something, we’re going to put up the wall,’ but what really burns me up at least Trump isn’t saying this is everybody is saying ‘we have to secure the border first then we will look at comprehensive.’ They know the border will never be secured. Okay? So that’s a cop out. ‘Oh, let’s secure the border first.’ They don’t want to lock up the illegals here in the United States. That’s their cop out. So every election, every election all you hear is ‘oh we’re going to do something.’ Now, Trump messed with all of them—and I’m glad he did that—regardless of what happens he opened the door. Now everybody has to talk about illegal immigration again. Remember they did it with Romney? Now they have to do it again. It was hiding. You guys [the media] wouldn’t even care about it. It would be the economy. He opened the door. Now they’re all stuck. Now they all got to address the issue. Put up or shut up. So you got to give him credit for that.”
At that point, his voice raised, Arpaio called out to his assistant and asked: “Excuse me, would you close the door, because I’m screaming!” His frustration with national politicians making empty promises was clear.
“I was down there two months ago, I usually don’t go to the border but I did because I wanted to go across the border,” Arpaio told Breitbart News when asked about all the holes in the so-called fence that it’s in place right now. Agents on the other side in Mexico didn’t want him to come through, so he said he stuck his hands through the fence and gave them a commemorative coin.
“I’m going to do it,” Arpaio said of his plans to go to Mexico. “I’m tired of them trying to keep me from going to Mexico because I am an elected sheriff and I do have more experience than any of these people have when you look at my record.”
Arpaio is right about his level of experience. Before he was elected sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992—he’s been re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012—he served in the U.S. Army’s Medical Detachment Division, stationed partially in France, from 1950 to 1954. Upon discharge, Arpaio became a police officer in Washington, D.C., then in Las Vegas, Nevada, before his appointment as a special agent with the then Federal Bureau of Narcotics—which would later become the DEA. In that position, he served in Argentina, Turkey, and in Mexico. He eventually rose through the ranks to head the DEA’s Arizona branch.
Arpaio told Breitbart News that he’s spoken with Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski about setting up a trip with the two of them to Mexico.
“I said I want to go with Trump to Mexico,” Arpaio said.
“I don’t care,” Arpaio added when asked where in Mexico they’d go together. “I want to fly into Mexico with him. I’ve been dealing with a local counsel general, they don’t want me, the Mexicans. Being with him [Trump], they’re not going to like it either. But they’re not going to stop me. I think I’m a little more high profile than he is—in fact when you look at the hate thing, I’m way above him. I’ve got five cartels here that drop hits on me.”
Arpaio said the cartels haven’t launched even a close-to-successful effort to take him out—“I haven’t been shot at or nothing”—but added, “I lock up people for threatening to kill me, just another one last week—not the cartels—so no, it doesn’t bother me. I don’t care. I don’t care. In fact, I think I’d be safer in Mexico than on Scottsdale Road around here or in Washington, D.C., where I walked the beat at 14th and U for four years with a nightstick and blackjack. I walked the black beat. I don’t worry about it, but I want to go [to Mexico] with Trump so I try and—this will be a big, big important step for him to get there and talk to the—the government probably won’t meet him, so I’m hoping he can get a group of business people. Just to get there. Get there.”
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View the complete article, including image, at:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...exico-with-me/
Breitbart / Big-Government
Matthew Boyle
8/26/2015
Excerpt:
PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—known here simply as “Sheriff Joe”—loves 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and wants to accompany him on a trip to Mexico that would, in his estimation, either lead to a show of U.S. force in getting that country to come to the table on immigration and trade or expose that Mexico is uninterested in solving such problems.
“I want to go to Mexico,” Arpaio told Breitbart News in a wide-ranging, nearly two-hour long interview in his office at the Maricopa County justice complex in downtown Phoenix. “I’ve gotten resistance from the Mexican government, I’ve got resistance from the federal government here. It’s all got to do with danger. Come on? I’m not worried about it. It’s probably got to do with politics, not danger. Right?”
Arpaio pulled out for Breitbart News a print off of the congressional record from 1970 where he praised the Mexican government for working with U.S. law enforcement—at the time he was a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Arpaio was stationed at one point in Mexico for the DEA, and in the testimony he gave to Congress he laid out how at that time the Mexican government worked with the United States to stop crime and aimed to end illegal immigration. “Here I’m praising the Mexican government, the judges, that’s 1970 when I lived there and worked there,” Arpaio said. “So I want to go. I want to meet with officials.”
“Let’s get to Trump now,” Arpaio said, moving the conversation along to the 2016 debates. “He’s talking about the fence, okay, or the wall, alright. I’ve been fighting this battle since I was a federal narcotics agent in 1957 because even then the drugs were all coming from Mexico. Even back in 1957—now if he wants to put a wall up, that’s okay, if it’s a good one. Now these fences you can hop over any day.”
Arpaio said he’s furious with career politicians who keep campaigning on empty promises to do something about illegal immigration. He’s not endorsing Trump yet, but he’s open to the possibility down the road. He’s most concerned with Trump proving he’s in this thing for the long haul. Being the sheriff of the fourth most populous county in America–Maricopa has nearly 4 million people–makes his endorsement well-sought-after from GOP candidates for president.
“All these politicians, they say the same thing—‘oh we’re going to put drones’—everybody talks,” Arpaio said. “I’ve been involved in all these campaigns. The last election, everybody running for president—seven of them?—two of them came here. Every one of them I met with. They all wanted my endorsement. I settled with Rick Perry, and did Iowa with him. But every election, ‘we’re going to do something, we’re going to do something, we’re going to put up the wall,’ but what really burns me up at least Trump isn’t saying this is everybody is saying ‘we have to secure the border first then we will look at comprehensive.’ They know the border will never be secured. Okay? So that’s a cop out. ‘Oh, let’s secure the border first.’ They don’t want to lock up the illegals here in the United States. That’s their cop out. So every election, every election all you hear is ‘oh we’re going to do something.’ Now, Trump messed with all of them—and I’m glad he did that—regardless of what happens he opened the door. Now everybody has to talk about illegal immigration again. Remember they did it with Romney? Now they have to do it again. It was hiding. You guys [the media] wouldn’t even care about it. It would be the economy. He opened the door. Now they’re all stuck. Now they all got to address the issue. Put up or shut up. So you got to give him credit for that.”
At that point, his voice raised, Arpaio called out to his assistant and asked: “Excuse me, would you close the door, because I’m screaming!” His frustration with national politicians making empty promises was clear.
“I was down there two months ago, I usually don’t go to the border but I did because I wanted to go across the border,” Arpaio told Breitbart News when asked about all the holes in the so-called fence that it’s in place right now. Agents on the other side in Mexico didn’t want him to come through, so he said he stuck his hands through the fence and gave them a commemorative coin.
“I’m going to do it,” Arpaio said of his plans to go to Mexico. “I’m tired of them trying to keep me from going to Mexico because I am an elected sheriff and I do have more experience than any of these people have when you look at my record.”
Arpaio is right about his level of experience. Before he was elected sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992—he’s been re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012—he served in the U.S. Army’s Medical Detachment Division, stationed partially in France, from 1950 to 1954. Upon discharge, Arpaio became a police officer in Washington, D.C., then in Las Vegas, Nevada, before his appointment as a special agent with the then Federal Bureau of Narcotics—which would later become the DEA. In that position, he served in Argentina, Turkey, and in Mexico. He eventually rose through the ranks to head the DEA’s Arizona branch.
Arpaio told Breitbart News that he’s spoken with Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski about setting up a trip with the two of them to Mexico.
“I said I want to go with Trump to Mexico,” Arpaio said.
“I don’t care,” Arpaio added when asked where in Mexico they’d go together. “I want to fly into Mexico with him. I’ve been dealing with a local counsel general, they don’t want me, the Mexicans. Being with him [Trump], they’re not going to like it either. But they’re not going to stop me. I think I’m a little more high profile than he is—in fact when you look at the hate thing, I’m way above him. I’ve got five cartels here that drop hits on me.”
Arpaio said the cartels haven’t launched even a close-to-successful effort to take him out—“I haven’t been shot at or nothing”—but added, “I lock up people for threatening to kill me, just another one last week—not the cartels—so no, it doesn’t bother me. I don’t care. I don’t care. In fact, I think I’d be safer in Mexico than on Scottsdale Road around here or in Washington, D.C., where I walked the beat at 14th and U for four years with a nightstick and blackjack. I walked the black beat. I don’t worry about it, but I want to go [to Mexico] with Trump so I try and—this will be a big, big important step for him to get there and talk to the—the government probably won’t meet him, so I’m hoping he can get a group of business people. Just to get there. Get there.”
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View the complete article, including image, at:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...exico-with-me/