Maricopa County

(Newser) - The headlines have been cropping up in the RSS feeds of political junkies: Sheriff Joe Arpaio—the self-anointed tough guy in Arizona who doesn't like illegal immigrants—is going to New Hampshire Sunday and pointedly not ruling out a 2012 presidential run. CNN rounds it up here . All this coverage...

(Newser) - Since 2007, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has deported or forced the departure of a whopping 26,146 immigrants through a federal-local partnership program. That's a quarter of the national total, without the benefit of the new Arizona law that legalizes checking papers of anyone who looks to law enforcement...