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Meanwhile, those of us who elected him did so based largely on his policy promises, including immigration. So if he wishes to appease his electorate, this bett

by daxorid 10y ago

Meanwhile, those of us who elected him did so based largely on his policy promises, including immigration. So if he wishes to appease his electorate, this better not be mere posturing, and he absolutely should select Arpaio, a man eminently qualified to preside over the operations of ICE and other DHS functions.

tptacek 10y ago
Joe Arpaio mismanaged his office, redirected tens of millions of dollars of funding from detention and infrastructure funds to patronage for his own employees, conducted politically motivated investigations into local political figures (including judges, the mayor, the Arizona AG, and the entire Maricopa County Board of Supervisors) --- much of this corroborated by an open letter from his deputy and second-in-command, who supported Arpaio's immigration positions but resigned in disgust over Arpaio's incompetence and malfeasance. It was also the finding of the US Attorney for Arizona. Joe Arpaio was forced to pay a local resident $1.6MM for staging an assassination plot against himself. You don't understand the complaint I'm making. I have a complaint that transcends policy. I disagree strongly with the immigration position Trump has taken. But I expected to disagree with the next administration, which was almost inevitably going to be Republican. I can live with disagreement. How can you live with this level of incompetence? It's like the stupid Trump wall. Do you think I have some great moral problem with a border wall? Why would I? I have compassion for people who have lived in this country all their lives after having brought here as children, and would be upset to see them deported --- pointlessly, to no benefit for the US. But making it harder for people to come here unlawfully? Why would I care? The problem with the wall isn't that it's immoral. It's that it's fucking idiotic. It's one of the largest land borders in the world, bracketed by two different maritime borders with the same country. It will be ludicrously expensive and solve virtually no problems, including unlawful immigration. It is an utterly incompetent policy solution to the problem it purports to solve, and yet here we go, ready to shovel an avalanche of money into the least useful most expensive public works project conceived of in the last 50 years.

by daxorid 10y ago

tptacek 10y ago

Joe Arpaio mismanaged his office, redirected tens of millions of dollars of funding from detention and infrastructure funds to patronage for his own employees, conducted politically motivated investigations into local political figures (including judges, the mayor, the Arizona AG, and the entire Maricopa County Board of Supervisors) --- much of this corroborated by an open letter from his deputy and second-in-command, who supported Arpaio's immigration positions but resigned in disgust over Arpaio's incompetence and malfeasance. It was also the finding of the US Attorney for Arizona. Joe Arpaio was forced to pay a local resident $1.6MM for staging an assassination plot against himself. You don't understand the complaint I'm making. I have a complaint that transcends policy. I disagree strongly with the immigration position Trump has taken. But I expected to disagree with the next administration, which was almost inevitably going to be Republican. I can live with disagreement. How can you live with this level of incompetence? It's like the stupid Trump wall. Do you think I have some great moral problem with a border wall? Why would I? I have compassion for people who have lived in this country all their lives after having brought here as children, and would be upset to see them deported --- pointlessly, to no benefit for the US. But making it harder for people to come here unlawfully? Why would I care? The problem with the wall isn't that it's immoral. It's that it's fucking idiotic. It's one of the largest land borders in the world, bracketed by two different maritime borders with the same country. It will be ludicrously expensive and solve virtually no problems, including unlawful immigration. It is an utterly incompetent policy solution to the problem it purports to solve, and yet here we go, ready to shovel an avalanche of money into the least useful most expensive public works project conceived of in the last 50 years.