Beyond ironic:
Maricopa County Sheriff Office deputies arrested a 6-year-old suspected illegal immigrant Friday, the day President Barack Obama softened the country's deportation policy toward young illegal immigrants.
The girl was with 15 other people believed to be in the country illegally who were traveling to the Midwest and northeast United States, said Chris Hegstrom, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
"She's been turned over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to try to determine where she's from. She told us she's from El Salvador. That's what she told us," he said.
I presume if she had not been brown and had said "Scottsdale", she would have been handed over to Child Protective Services, no?
But since she was brown and the accent was all wrong, it was necessary to slap her in cuffs so that the good folks of Phoenix could sleep safe in their beds at night.
The whereabouts of the girl's parents or other caretakers is unknown. All of the people traveling with her claimed to know nothing about the girl.
"Where was she going? What are they going to do with her? We're trying to get to the bottom of this right now," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
I assume he'll be recalling his crack investigative team from Hawaii to get to bottom of this.
"We enforce the human-smuggling laws here," Arpaio said. "Every chance I can get to take action on my own without turning them over to ICE, I do. Especially with the new policy the president has."
Note to self: in Arizona, there is an 80-year-old local hero public official who takes great pride in the arrest of a 6-year-old who he presumes is the victim of trafficking. Never, ever, inject a single penny of my earnings into the Phoenix-area economy again.
Arpaio believes there will be an increase in Mexicans entering the United States illegally after hearing Obama's new policy.
"I suspect that this is politics to get the Hispanic vote," Arpaio said. "It's sad to use the kids as a political tool to get a certain segment of our society's vote."
However, it is AWESOME to use the kids as defenseless pawns in your efforts to prove that nobody hates teh brown like Sheriff Joe.