Harry Reid: No Sane Country Would Allow Birthright Citizenship

In 1993 by Harry Reid who recently said the GOP had "taken leave of their senses" by daring to question birthright citizenship, and therefore he couldn't understand how "anyone of Hispanic descent could be a Republican".

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Newly surfaced comments from Harry Reid show that he advocated for the exact same position in 1993. According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), “Reid (D-Nev.) introduced legislation to clarify the scope of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and to end the practice of granting U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants.”

In a section titled “Basis of Citizenship Clarified,” Reid’s bill explained:

…the Congress has determined and hereby declares that any person born after the date of enactment of this title to a mother who is neither a citizen of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident, and which person is a national or citizen of another country of which either of his or her natural parents is a national or citizen, or is entitled upon application to become a national or citizen of such country, shall be considered as born subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of [Section 1 of the 14th Amendment] and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United States or of any State solely by reason of physical presence within the United States at the moment of birth.[S.1351, Sec. 1001]

Speaking before the Senate, Reid said that “no sane country” would allow for birthday citizenship. Source

AG Sessions Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry

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Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry

Attorney General Jeff Sessions today notified all U.S. Attorney’s Offices along the Southwest Border of a new “zero-tolerance policy” for offenses under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), which prohibits both attempted illegal entry and illegal entry into the United States by an alien. The implementation of the Attorney General’s zero-tolerance policy comes as the Department of Homeland Security reported a 203 percent increase in illegal border crossings from March 2017 to March 2018, and a 37 percent increase from February 2018 to March 2018—the largest month-to-month increase since 2011. 

  “The situation at our Southwest Border is unacceptable. Congress has failed to pass effective legislation that serves the national interest—that closes dangerous loopholes and fully funds a wall along our southern border. As a result, a crisis has erupted at our Southwest Border that necessitates an escalated effort to prosecute those who choose to illegally cross our border,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “To those who wish to challenge the Trump Administration’s commitment to public safety, national security, and the rule of law, I warn you: illegally entering this country will not be rewarded, but will instead be met with the full prosecutorial powers of the Department of Justice. To the Department’s prosecutors, I urge you: promoting and enforcing the rule of law is vital to protecting a nation, its borders, and its citizens. You play a critical part in fulfilling these goals, and I thank you for your continued efforts in seeing to it that our laws—and as a result, our nation—are respected.”

 On April 11, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a renewed commitment to criminal immigration enforcement. As part of that announcement, the Attorney General issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors and directed them to prioritize the prosecution of certain criminal immigration offenses.

 Today’s zero-tolerance policy further directs each U.S. Attorney’s Office along the Southwest Border (i.e., Southern District of California, District of Arizona, District of New Mexico, Western District of Texas, and the Southern District of Texas) to adopt a policy to prosecute all Department of Homeland Security referrals of section 1325(a) violations, to the extent practicable.

Would President Trump Approve Bill Clinton's Message on Immigration From 1995 Video

Democrats and Republicans have been spouting this rhitoric for 22 years and still have enforced the laws or solved the problem. George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan debated it 1980 see below video.

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Bill Clinton

All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.

 The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question from the audience about illegal immigration at a primary debate sponsored by the League of Woman voters and moderated by Howard K Smith in 1980. You Tube

AZ Candidate For Governor Scott Smith: The truth about securing the border

Guest Commentary by Scott Smith for East Valley Tribune

Former mesa Mayor Scott Smith
Our state is taking a beating over our nation’s broken immigration system. Unfortunately, we’re hearing a lot of rhetoric and campaign pandering on this issue. Here’s the truth: securing the border is about more than guards and fencing.

There are thousands of guards at the border and right now we’re using them for an expensive round of catch and release, and baby-sitting. The barrage of children and families crossing our border isn’t eluding our guards, they’re running towards them. The Obama Administration’s policy is essentially complicit with human smuggling cartels; coyotes get children to the border and the administration picks up where the coyotes leave off, transporting children to others in the U.S.

We need a border fix that punches beyond the obvious security measures. Of course we need guards, technology and infrastructure, and our federal government should pay for it! This, as the Supreme Court has ruled, is their area of authority and responsibility.

But at this juncture, the Obama Administration must realize its policies are actually empowering cartels. To protect children and stem the flow, we must prioritize the hiring of judges to provide immediate deportation hearings for this latest wave of illegal border-crossers. To send a clear message that will protect children, Central Americans must see planes with illegal immigrants coming home.

Make no mistake, I understand this is a humanitarian crisis as well. I support Senators Flake’s and McCain’s effort to issue additional asylum applications. Those applications should be filled out in the petitioners’ home country though. Only in the Obama Administration do you fix a foreign policy crisis by making it a domestic policy crisis.

When we learned of the dumping of adults with their children in Arizona, I advocated for the use of an Expedited Removal Process, available under current law. If the president can use his executive authority to establish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), he can certainly use his similar authority to send a clear signal to the cartels that the U.S. will no longer be partners in their human smuggling chain.

Senators Flake and McCain proposed a legislative resolution to this crisis. I support their effort and further suggest this policy outline:
1. Invest in more guards, customs agents and infrastructure at the border to promote legal trade and stop illegal activity.
2. Immediately hire more judges to adjudicate the cases of the 50,000-plus unaccompanied Central American minors to send them home as soon as possible.
3. Increase the number of asylum applications for each of the affected countries by 5,000.
4. When the 50,000 have been returned, enact the Dream statute to address the population of immigrant children long settled in the United States.
No state in the nation will benefit more by creating a rule of law at our border and increasing legal trade with Mexico and Latin America than Arizona.

As governor, I will lead to solve our immigration crisis, pushing for real solutions. My opponents in the governor’s race have offered only empty rhetoric, attempting to fleece Arizona voters with non-solutions. Look to my record though, and you will see that I have led in times of crisis, I have balanced budgets while increasing public safety, I have engaged to solve the critical issues our communities face. As governor, I will bring this resolve and experience. I ask for your vote, a vote for real solutions.
• Scott Smith is the former mayor of Mesa and a candidate for governor in the Republican primary.

AZ Senator Jeff Flake: Unaccompanied Minor Update

I wanted to give you a quick update on the unaccompanied minor illegal immigration crisis.

As you may know, President Obama has asked Congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the situation. The problem with the Administration's request is that the lion's share of that money goes to the Department of Health and Human Service to place unaccompanied minors with family members in the U.S. It sends mixed messages to have the President claim that these children will be sent back to their home countries while asking for billions of dollars to do precisely the opposite.

In response to the President's request, I've introduced legislation that does several things to address the crisis. First, it amends current law to make it easier to send these kids to their home countries. Rather than placing children with family members in the U.S., my bill would require that they remain in the custody of the U.S., which would ensure that they are present for legal proceedings. The bill increases the numbers of immigration law judges so that these cases can be more quickly processed. Finally, the bill conditions foreign aid to Central American countries on their cooperation in this matter, and it increases penalties on human smugglers.

Until Congress passes legislation, there are several actions that President Obama can take, including accelerating cases and sending a clear and strong message to Central Americans that unaccompanied minors will be returned home. Without question, the President's unwillingness to do what's within his power is making this situation worse.

I believe that when parents in Central America, who spent thousands of dollars to get their child to the U.S., see that they're coming right back, you'll start to see the flow of accompanied minors subside. Until that starts to happen, I will continue to make this a priority.

The State of Arizona: A Documentary On Illegal Immigration

The State of Arizona, a documentary, will premier on PBS on January 27,2014.  Check your local listings. Watch Trailer

In 2010, the Arizona Senate passed controversial immigration law SB 1070, also known as the “papers please” law, igniting a national maelstrom. Supporters call it a common sense law-enforcement tool; opponents feel it will inevitably lead to racial profiling. Neighborhoods empty, businesses shutter, and immigrants flee the state. Those who choose to stay organize boycotts, mass demonstrations, daring acts of civil disobedience, and prepare families for the possibility of separation by sudden deportation.

Mixing in interviews with footage of heated protest rallies and television coverage, the film tells the stories of Arizonans on all sides of this divisive issue — activists, politicians, Latino immigrants, ranchers, controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the newly empowered Tea Party movement, for whom illegal immigration is a flashpoint subject — depicting a state and its people testing the edges of our democratic values. Arizona’s enforcement-led policy, which grew out of its unique position as a frontline border state, is reshaping the national conversation around immigration reform. With dozens of states considering a similar approach, The State of Arizona holds up a mirror, asking Americans who they are, and who they want to be.

The Gang of Eight Immigration Bill, Explained in One Infographic

Senators return to Washington next week to debate the Gang of Eight's comprehensive immigration bill. Heritage President Jim DeMint has said the bill is “unfair, it costs too much, and it’s going to make the problem worse.” We've put together an infographic that explains some of the major problems with a "comprehensive" approach to immigration reform. Forward this to a friend to share these concerns.

Schumer: 'People Will Be Legalized,' Border Security After Video

In a little-noticed quote on last Sunday's Meet the Press, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--a member of the bipartisan so-called “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform--might have slipped up and admitted the “Gang” is not going to secure the border before giving 11 million illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
“So look, we've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized,” Schumer said. “In other words, not citizens, but they'll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure.”
Meet the Press Video fill-in anchor Chuck Todd did not pick up on Schumer’s admission. But even later in the show, while interviewing Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, Todd admits that the Gang of Eight's original framework was supposed to be border security first, which would then “trigger” the pathway to citizenship.

CHUCK TODD: Senator Schumer would not tell us what this metrics and border security. This is your home state of Arizona. You've talked about--you've said that there are two sort of border sectors--in Arizona. One is the Yuma sector, one is the Tucson sector. And you say that Yuma has got it right. Well, what does that mean? That there is operational control. Can you explain what that means in layman's terms to the viewers out there?
FLAKE: Yes, I was in both the Yuma sector last week and the Tucson sector and there is a difference. In the Yuma sector--people still get through. But--our border patrol and other agents have a reasonable expectation of catching them. That's probably--the best explanation of what operational control means. You'll never stop everyone from coming through. And you have a lot of commerce, legal commerce that happens at the border as well. So when people talk about having a sealed border, we don't need a sealed border, we need a secure border. That's what we have in Yuma. We're just--quite a ways from that in the Tucson sector.
CHUCK TODD: And when that is done, that's when--would trigger the pathway to citizenship?
FLAKE: Yes. First, we've got to get to--as you mentioned, some kind of metrics--from the Department of Homeland Security. In a recent report that they had--increased apprehensions was used in one part of the report--to indicate that we had a better situation, in another part of the report, increased apprehensions--are--decreased apprehensions was used to demonstrate the same. So we've had trouble getting--good metrics out of the--Department of Homeland Security. We're going to have to have that before we move further.

The original framework the immigration group released in January also placed border security before a pathway to citizenship, the former being a “trigger” for the latter. The reason why the Gang of Eight has always agreed that border security had to happen before any pathway to citizenship steps took place is because the incentive for border security is lost the minute those 11 million or so illegal immigrants become legalized.
In his recent letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Pat Leahy, urging an open and transparent immigration reform process, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made clear again that a pathway to citizenship would only come after border security was implemented. “A key feature of our bipartisan approach has been an insistence on meeting border security and other enforcement triggers before unauthorized immigrants can apply for permanent residence,” Rubio wrote.

OBAMA GOES AROUND CONGRESS

Matt Salmon Responds to Obama's Plan to Go Around Congress on Immigration Reform...

EAST VALLEY - Matt Salmon, former Congressman and candidate for Arizona's 5th congressional district released the following statement regarding President Obama's unilateral change to immigration law:
"Once again, President Obama has proven that the only job security he truly cares about is his own. Instead of heeding the calls from our leaders in Arizona and other border states to work with Congress on securing our national borders immediately, he has chosen to institute another policy designed to aid his faltering re-election campaign. Instead of working with Congress on meaningful reform, he has chosen to go around it. This is exactly the kind of politics that American citizens have grown tired of."
"Our national borders continue to be unprotected while the threats of terrorism and drug cartel violence intensify daily. This administration has failed to fulfill its constitutional role of securing our borders and enforcing our laws. Even worse, it has allowed guns to walk across the border without any accountability and instituted pandering polices designed solely to garner votes. True immigration reform can never happen until our federal government secures our borders first, and I will lead this fight when I return to Congress."

4 dead, 7 hurt in Border Patrol chase in Arizona...

May 3rd 2012   ·   

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. –  An SUV packed with suspected illegal immigrants crashed in a farm town south of Phoenix while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents early Wednesday, leaving four people dead and seven injured.

Investigators look over a vehicle that crashed and rolled following a pursuit by U.S. Border Patrol agents early Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in Casa Grande, Ariz. A Dodge Durango packed with suspected illegal immigrants hit a wall and rolled into the yard of a home in Casa Grande at about 1 a.m., police spokesman officer Thomas Anderson said. Officers found three people dead at the scene, and a fourth died after being airlifted to a hospital in Phoenix. Five of the injured were hurt badly enough to also be flown to Phoenix hospitals, while two with lesser injuries were taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. (AP Photo/Casa Grande Dispatch, Steven King)

The Dodge Durango carrying 11 people hit a wall and rolled into the yard of a home in Casa Grande at about 1 a.m., police spokesman officer Thomas Anderson said. Officers found three people dead at the scene, and a fourth died after being airlifted to a hospital in Phoenix, 50 miles to the north.
Five of the injured were hurt badly enough to also be flown to Phoenix hospitals, while two with lesser injuries were taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Border Patrol and U.S. Homeland Security agents spotted the SUV driving with a second vehicle south of town in an area where smuggling is common, Anderson said. When officers tried to stop the two vehicles, one slowed and the other sped north toward Casa Grande with agents following.
A police officer saw the SUV careening into town, try to make a turn and lose control. It crashed through a wall and hit several trees, but stopped just short of a house.
The crash was extremely violent, leaving a trail of auto parts and bodies, Anderson said.
Federal agents detained the woman driving the second vehicle.
Multiple-fatality crashes involving vehicles packed with illegal immigrants are not uncommon in Arizona, especially when drivers try to flee from law enforcement. It’s also common for smuggling vehicles to travel in pairs, with one acting as a decoy so the vehicle with drugs or illegal immigrants can slip away.
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PAY TAXES A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP

Washington D.C. – On Aril 5, 2012, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told the crowd at the National Press Club that one of the ways those living and working in the country illegally might gain citizenship is by paying taxes on their (illegal) income.

Shulman said: “One of the pathways to citizenship that people believe is a good one is--even if you’re not in this country legally--to pay taxes.”

Schulman went on to say: “And so our job is to make sure, if you work in this country and you have a tax obligation, that you file a tax return. That’s what we try to do. And so our job is around exactly what whoever wrote the question asked, which is to make sure taxes are paid. We’re not responsible for the other pieces of immigration law, immigration policy.”

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Shulman said if Congress takes too long it could create “total confusion, where some people are filing under one law, and some under another.”
Inaction from Congress could lead to the IRS delaying the beginning of the filing season in 2013, he said.
It wouldn’t be the first time. In 2006 the IRS delayed some e-filing because of tax legislation passed late in 2005.
Almost 70 tax provisions expired Dec. 31, according to Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, and the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and the payroll tax cut are set to expire this year.
Shulman spoke at the National Press Club about improvements at the IRS under his leadership. He was appointed in 2008 to a five-year term. He said he would serve out his term but would not have a second term.

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ARIZONA'S FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT SEEKS RE-ELECTION...

MESA, Ariz. Former Senator Russell Pearce maker of the controversial illegal immigration S.B. 1070 Bill told the Red Mountain Tea Party that he'll seek re-election to the state Senate in the newly created Legislative District 25 in East Mesa.

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"Truth is I've never retreated from a fight, I've never surrendered" Pearce said. "I know what's good for America, and I think America is on my side."  Last November Pearce was recalled and then lost his Senate to Jerry Lewis.

Supporters who showed up to hear Pearce make his announcement Monday night seemed to disagree and many said they were thrilled Pearce is re-entering politics.

Pearce already has at least one Republican challenger.

Earlier in the day East Valley entrepreneur Bob Worsley announced he will also run in LD 25.

Worsley, a CPA who is best known for founding SkyMall, the hugely successful in-flight shopping catalog, said in a statement that he was approached by civic and business leaders and asked to run in the district.

Worsley's statement said, in part: "I have never planned to run for office but my wife and I wish to serve our community at this stage of our lives. Arizona faces many challenges and I believe my past experience as an entrepreneur, a former CPA and cost cutter, is exactly what we need in politics right now.  I hope to serve the citizens of Mesa in the Senate because I believe if we work together, we can elevate our politics, strengthen our economy, and prepare Mesa and Arizona for the next phase of growth and achievement."

Pearce called Worsley a "good guy," but said he believed he could beat him if Worsley runs on a family values platform.

"He says he's about family values and limited government. If he's gonna run on those issues, I don't know how he does it, I'm at top of the list on every one of those issues," Pearce said.

LD 25 is currently represented by republican State Senator Rich Crandall. Crandall tweeted Monday night: "Happy to announce I'm throwing my support behind Bob Worsley as well as my entire campaign organization. Related Source 

Sheriff Paul Babeu from rising political star to using 

political clout to allegedly threaten a Mexican 

National...EX-LOVER talks to CNN...

Babeu returned to Arizona shortly after losing an election for North Adams mayor in 2001. He has been something of an enigma since he appeared on the Arizona political scene and it was suspected he was homosexual. Being homosexual isn't the issue, it's the alleded abuse of his office to intimidate his ex-lover...

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In Arizona He became a Chandler police officer and in November 2008 defeated a Democratic incumbent to become sheriff.

Along the way, he served in the Army National Guard as both an enlisted man and an officer, retiring from the Arizona Guard as a major after serving stints in Iraq and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sheriff Babeu is best known for his hard stance on illegal immigration appearing in video "Build the Dang Fence."

First voted into office in 2008 by defeating the Democratic incumbent, Babeu became the first Republican Sheriff elected in the history of Pinal County.^[1] Babeu is President of the Arizona Sheriffs’ Association^[16] and was named the National Sheriff of the Year in 2011 by the National Sheriffs’ Association.^[17] Babeu is Arizona’s youngest Sheriff and leads the third largest Sheriff’s Office in Arizona with 700 full-time employees.^[7]

He has received national media attention for speaking out against illegal immigration,^[2] the unsecured US border with Mexico, and Operation Fast and Furious gun smuggling facilitated by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.^[3]

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The hypocrisy of Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu should be the issue not his sexual preference. All the time he is ranting about illegal immigration he is shacking with a purported illegal immigrant. Babeu has been on every media outlet that will give him a voice as an expert on illegal immigration and what should be done to secure the border. But when it came to his personal pleasure he overlooked the purported illegal status of his gay Mexican lover. Babeu living up to the meaning of the word HYPOCRISY a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.

an act or instance of hypocrisy. be###

Babeu Admits he's gay...

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu on Saturday denied allegations that he and his attorney threatened to deport a Mexican former boyfriend of Babeu's unless the man agreed not to disclose the relationship.

Babeu said the allegations are "completely false" and that the only information mentioned in a Phoenix New Times article that's true is "I'm gay."
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Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu Male Mexican Ex-Lover Says he was threatened with Deportation...
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.

The shirtless self-portrait is eerily reminiscent of the one that took down GOP congressman Chris Lee early last year.

According to the New Times story, the alleged lover is also here in the United States illegally. If the affair was real, this fact alone would obviously be very damaging to Babeu’s reputation as a tough fighter for border security, and also his prospects for his congressional race. He is running in Arizona’s 4th congressional district.

Babeu’s attorney says it’s really all about — get this — a computer hacking.

Babeu didn’t respond to requests for comment by publication time for this article, but his attorney, DeRose, says the dispute between Jose and the sheriff concerned Jose’s work on Babeu’s websites. He says Jose was a former volunteer who hacked into a campaign website.

DeRose didn’t immediately address the other claims against him and the sheriff, except to say, “I never threatened to deport anybody” and that “[Babeu's] not threatening anybody.”

A quick search for a more vehement response or denial from Mr. DeRose didn’t reveal anything yet. The story, however, has enough of a powder keg feel that we should be hearing more from both sides soon.


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The latest of the alleged threats were made through Babeu's personal attorney, who's also running the sheriff's campaign for Congress in District 4, the ex-lover says.

He says lawyer Chris DeRose demanded he sign an agreement that he would never breathe a word about the affair. But Jose (New Times is withholding his last name because Babeu and his attorney have challenged his legal status) refused.

The 34-year-old from central Mexico charges that the sheriff's lawyer warned against mentioning the affair with Babeu. DeRose said gossip about Babeu would focus attention on Jose, attention that could result in his deportation, Jose says.

Melissa Weiss-Riner, Jose's attorney, confirms her client's account.

She says she spoke directly to the sheriff's lawyer, DeRose, about the Babeu camp's threats that Jose could be deported if he "revealed the relationship." She says DeRose falsely claimed that Jose's visa had expired.

"Jose came to our firm because he felt he was being intimidated, and he was in fear for his life," Weiss-Riner says. "He wanted his legal rights protected."

Babeu didn't respond to requests for comment by publication time for this article, but his attorney, DeRose, says the dispute between Jose and the sheriff concerned Jose's work on Babeu's websites. He says Jose was a former volunteer who hacked into a campaign website.

DeRose didn't immediately address the other claims against him and the sheriff, except to say, "I never threatened to deport anybody" and that "[Babeu's] not threatening anybody."

Informed of the situation, Nancy-Jo Merritt, a longtime Phoenix immigration attorney, says such a threat would be indicative of an "atmosphere that's been created politically in this state, so that if you get angry at someone who is Hispanic, you immediately jump down to the level of threatening to deport him.

"If what [Babeu's attorney] says is correct [about Jose's being illegal], either the sheriff had a long relationship with someone he knew was undocumented, while all the time being Mr. Bluster about the border and using it for political gain," or he threatened to deport someone he just broke up with, Merritt says.

"That's just the worst kind of hypocrisy."

She adds that federal immigration-enforcement agents have better things to do than "take care of Babeu's boyfriends."

Antonio Bustamante, a criminal defense attorney and immigration activist, tells New Times that if the allegations against Babeu are true, "To use a position of authority . . . and make legal threats opens a Pandora's box of ethics issues for any law enforcement person or any elected person. In this case, he's both."

Jose says he met Babeu in October 2006 on gay.com, a dating website. What started with an online invitation from Babeu for the two to get together, he says, turned into not only a personal relationship but a professional one.

Jose says he created and maintained Babeu's campaign websites, his Facebook page, and hisTwitter account. Babeu didn't pay him for his online services, he claims.

Jose says Babeu told him that he loved him and was with him exclusively. But Jose suspected Babeu was lying. The relationship soured, and Jose believes that Babeu sent DeRose after him. He says DeRose demanded the passwords to Babeu's websites and social-media accounts. Jose says he complied but that Babeu and his attorney also wanted Jose to sign a document that would bind him legally to keep silent about the relationship.

Jose admits that he lashed out on news websites featuring stories about Babeu. He says he commented anonymously that the sheriff was not who people thought he was. He says he once wrote a comment on Chino Valley eNews that Babeu had an account on adam4adam.com, where gay men arrange sexual liaisons.

Jose shared text messages between him and Babeu with New Times. A September 4, 2011, text from the sheriff reads: "You can never have business after this and you will harm me and many others in the process . . . including yourself & your family."

A couple of minutes later, Babeu followed with: "And you say you have loved me? Papi . . . this is no good."

Jose responded: "Good threats. Wont work. Im already hurt me . . . and you didn't care."

They exchanged more texts on September 6.

Jose: "Dont threat me. Thats illegal. Im just speaking . . . true."

Babeu: "You have crossed the line. Better get an attorney. You brother will also be contacted."

The following day, on September 7, DeRose sent an e-mail directly to Jose ordering him to "cease and desist."

DeRose wrote: "If you are serious about an amicable resolution to this, it is critical that no further offensive actions against my client be taken in the meantime. This should go without saying."

Jose says that's when he hired Weiss-Riner.

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In addition to the text messages and e-mails, Jose shared letters from Melissa Weiss-Riner to Chris DeRose and photographs of Babeu and of him and Babeu together. He and his lawyer sat for several extensive interviews with New Times over the past month. He says he reached out to New Times because he was tired of living in fear.