Indeed it is Pima County. The only person on Mudcat who never makes any mistakes, and thus never has to admit he is wrong, is Greg F.

At any rate, it is interesting that though certain brilliant posters seek to discredit the sheriff in question based on his appearance, nobody has found any evidence to indicate that he is not on the front lines of preventing illegal immigration.   In fact, he says, as I pointed out on the other thread, that he has turned more illegals over to immigration authorities than any other sheriff in Arizona. His credentials are solid.

Likewise nobody has come up even with an argument against the sheriff's assertion that with this new law his men will be in a no-win situation:   either they offend legal immigrants or citizens by asking for their papers or they stand accused of neglecting duty when they do not ask--and face lawsuits from half-baked rabid anti-immigration fools (sorry again, I mean sterling citizens--my hand keeps slipping).

Particularly the clause that any citizen can sue the police if the police do not pursue a given person as diligently as said citizen desires is a classic disaster--a gold mine for trial attorneys, a calamity for everybody else--especially since it will be Arizona tax money which pays for the suits lost when the person turns out to be legal. Since obviously people falsely accused can sue just as anti-immigrationists can sue.

The law sounds like the full-employment statute for trial attorneys. Arizona will be a Mecca for them.