With a lawsuit coming against Joe Arpaio and company, Arpaio releases a booklet saying his office is going to clean up its act.

UPDATE: As a reader pointed out, the Wall Street Journal says "people familiar with the matter" claim the lawsuit's being filed tomorrow.

The Department of Justice sent letters notifying Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers that the DoJ's suing the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office "in order to remedy the serious Constitutional and federal law violations" the department found in its investigation.

In the letters, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez keeps it brief, saying the DoJ intends to file the civil lawsuit since the department can't seem to get the MCSO's cooperation through "voluntary means."

Perez notes that it's been 100 days since the findings of the investigation were released, and the DoJ hasn't met with MCSO's lawyers since early February.

The Justice Department had drawn up a draft agreement for the Sheriff's Office, saying it was willing to negotiate, but that didn't happen, as Arpaio complained that he wouldn't "surrender" his office to a federal monitor.

A previous letter from DOJ deputy assistant Attorney General Roy Austin pointed out that the monitor's duties weren't even set, as that was supposed to be part of the whole negotiations process Arpaio and company refused.

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put the 60th notch in his illegal-immigrant roundup/"employer sanctions operation" belt today, as deputies nabbed four people at a Tempe office furniture store.

Running off another "tip," deputies went to Interior Solutions in Tempe this morning, arresting four people believed to be in the country illegally on identity-theft charges.

Despite running the 60th "employer sanctions operation," the Sheriff's Office says deputies had a chat with the owner about the allegedly stolen identities, and no action was taken against the employer.

If you're just tuning in to the operations after the 60th running, employer sanctions happen to be rare during the "employer sanction" operations.

The running total, according to the MCSO, of suspected illegal immigrants arrested after the 60 operations now stands at 627.

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Depending on which half of the sign you read, you may be more likely to be investigated for voter fraud.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new excuse for his "employer sanctions operations," after the boys in beige ran the 59th immigrant roundup this morning, and we'll give you a hint -- it still has little or nothing to do with sanctioning employers.

Arpaio says deputies raided Circle B Grading & Hauling Inc. in the west Valley this morning, and Arpaio's concerned that these people are voting.

He's apparently serious about this, as Arpaio claims he's turning over the names of everyone involved in "these cases," i.e., immigrant roundups, to the county's election department.

"ID theft is a growing concern in a number of US states as people fear that illegal immigrants may use these false identities to register to vote in elections where they legally have no voice," Arpaio says in a press release. "To determine if there is a problem here, we are going to continue to turn over the names of everyone involved in these cases to the Elections Department to verify that this is not happening."

That trend starts with eight of the nine Circle B employees who were arrested this morning, whom the sheriff believes -- for some reason -- may have high rates of political efficacy.

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Camouflage.

Two illegal immigrants were shot and killed last night near Eloy after being "ambushed" by an unknown number of people in camouflage getup, police say.

According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, the call came into the Eloy Police Department around 10:30 p.m. yesterday about shots being fired at an "illegal alien smuggling load."

The sheriff's department, along with Eloy police, Coolidge police, and Border Patrol agents, found one person dead in the bed of the pickup truck, and another person was found dead in a nearby wash.

Deputy Dawn Barkman tells New Times there may have been as many as 30 people in the truck when it was fired upon, but police only found a handful of people hiding in some nearby brush as the rest in the truck had booked it.

The witness' description of the shooters: A bunch of people with rifles and camouflage clothing.

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he may be taking heat for breaking up families and going on illegal-immigrant hunts, but when he gets the chance, he'll still save the lives of illegal immigrants.

The sheriff's office says it got a hot tip on Saturday about six illegal immigrants, abandoned by their smuggler without food or water, wandering around the desert near Gila Bend.

According to the MCSO, deputies spotted the six people from a helicopter, and they called in the ground units to go "rescue" them.

The six people told deputies they had been walking through the desert for seven days, and were without food or water for the last two days, according to the sheriff's office.

All six were successfully transported to U.S. Border Patrol custody.

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That's a "poster boy" all right.

​For once, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he shouldn't be the center of attention.

Six young people -- the oldest 23 years old -- were arrested by Phoenix police Tuesday during a protest at Trevor Browne High School, rallying against Arpaio's methods of immigration enforcement.

To those six people -- and around 150 others who were present -- Arpaio says immigration policies have absolutely nothing to do with him.

"If these students/demonstrators have a concern over the immigration laws they should bring those concerns to Congress, State Legislators, or the White House and not use this Sheriff as their poster boy," Arpaio says.

By the way, Arpaio wants everyone to know his boys in beige bagged 54 brown folks last week.

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​​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent his boys out on the 58th illegal-immigrant roundup "employer sanctions operation" today, and get a load of this -- a grand total of zero employers were arrested, while 31 non-employers were arrested.

According to our math, there have been two employers sanctioned through 58 "employer sanction" operations, while 605 alleged illegal immigrants have been nabbed.

Today's venture brought the boys in beige to a Tempe vitamin manufacturer called 21st Century Healthcare, where Arpaio says deputies executed a search warrant involving 34 suspects using stolen identifications.

Using Arpaio's logic, that means 31 new American jobs.

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​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio went hunting for illegals again this morning, this time at a Phoenix maid service business, where his deputies arrested a grand total of two suspected illegal immigrants, neither of whom are drug-dealing gang-bangers -- they're maids.

Per usual, the sheriff conducted his raid of the business under the guise of it being an "employer sanctions operation." Also per usual, no employers were actually arrested.

According to the MCSO, deputies served a search warrant at the business' headquarters -- located at 2521 East Bell Road in Phoenix -- this morning and seized business documents and computers.

Deputies determined that two employees were illegal immigrants using fake IDs to gain employment at the maid service business.
 
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​If you didn't get an O-boner from President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last night, you probably didn't watch it.

Per usual, the president killed it -- the man's got a gift for gab.

Unfortunately, talking about doing things doesn't get things done.

For example: his comments on comprehensive immigration reform.

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...or you'll end up in a public pissing match with the Department of Justice.

​The Department of Justice's investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's alleged racial-profiling practices officially has become a PR showdown -- in response to the the DOJ's response to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's response to the DOJ's investigation, the MCSO has now issued (you guessed it) its response...kinda.

The MCSO's response: it will offer its response after it has a chance to "digest" the DOJ's response.

We'll start at the beginning...

Joe Arpaio became sheriff in 1993. He quickly learned that bootin' brown folks back to Mexico translated into votes in Maricopa County.

Fast-forward to December, when the DOJ released the findings of a three-year investigation into the MCSO's alleged racial-profiling practices. Its conclusion: the MCSO -- under Arpaio's leadership -- is guilty of the worst racial-profiling practices in U.S. history.

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