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Joe Arpaio: ‘Nothing Changes’ In Arizona After Supreme Court Immigration Ruling

*Mexikaresistance.com Note: So, on of the most famous racists in the country just said he isn't a racist. Guess that changes everything!
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday night that the Supreme Court's decision to strike down most of Arizona's controversial immigration law won't have any real effect on the methods used by police officers to determine who may be an undocumented immigrant.

“Well, nothing changes,” Arpaio said during an interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos. “We are well trained, we do that without racial profiling, regardless of what the critics and some politicians in the U.S. Justice Department accuse me of.”

The Supreme Court struck down three portions of the state’s law, SB 1070. The court ruled it unconstitutional to make it a state crime for an immigrant not to be carrying his or her immigration papers, to allow for arrests without a warrant in some situations, and to bar an undocumented immigrant from working in Arizona. But the high court upheld the most contentious piece of the law, which requires a police officer to check the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.

Arpaio, a proponent of the law, SB 1070, pushed back on charges that he is racist and that the Supreme Court gave him legal protection to continue what some say is racial profiling.

“I don’t think the Supreme Court decision had anything to do with racial profiling, and to answer your question for the millionth time, I am not a racist,” he told Ramos. “I am going to leave it at that.”

Arpaio said he will be watching to see how the Justice Department makes the case that Arizona’s police are engaged in racial profiling under the law. The Supreme Court left the door open for more challenges to the portion of SB 1070 it left in place.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: Joe Arpaio: ‘Nothing Changes’ In Arizona After Supreme Court Immigration Ruling.

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