Reviving The Posse

Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona has activated members of the local posse to help enforce immigration law. His is the only county in Arizona that is trying to enforce the state's anti-smuggling law.

"There are so many illegals trying to make it into the county that it's overwhelming my deputies, so I have called on members of my 3000 member volunteer posse to assist," says Sheriff Arpaio.  "It's not only illegals we find and arrest out there, we've also made some recent huge drug seizures involving illegal aliens including nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine and approximately three pounds of heroin."
 
Posse man Andrew Ramsammy, who was part of Tuesday's arrest team, says that he believes he represents many of his peers when he says that the posse is anxious to be a part of the Sheriff's solution to the immigration problem.
 
"As a group of law abiding people, we are fed up with the number of people who come into this county illegally.  We're tired of the drugs that some of them bring to sell to our young people and we're ready and willing to assist the Sheriff's deputies in the fight against illegal immigration," says Ramsammy.

One of the smugglers arrested so far may have left one illegal immigrant in the desert to die.