Arpaio not barred from enforcing immigration laws

By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was dealt a heavy blow when a federal judge imposed a long list of restrictions on his trademark immigration patrols, crimping his yearslong crackdown on people who are in the country illegally but not forbidding him altogether from enforcing the state’s immigration laws.

A judge ruled on Friday that Arpaio’s office has systematically singled out Latinos in its immigration patrols and that sheriff’s deputies unreasonably prolonged the detentions of people who were pulled over, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

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