Every Maricopa County Sheriff's deputy will receive training on the authority of local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law under a program Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Monday afternoon.
All 881 sworn deputies in the agency will receive two hours of initial training, but sheriff's administrators said the instruction will become part of the deputies' ongoing education requirements.
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Arpaio said the training would include information on racial profiling, an accusation the Sheriff's Office has fought since deputies began stepped-up immigration enforcement efforts in 2008.
For the past two years, sheriff's personnel who come across people they suspect are in the country illegally have called the expertise of 100 deputies who were trained in federal immigration law to help make a determination. An agreement with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency removed that authority from street-level deputies in October.
Under the new training initiative, all the deputies will make those determinations on their own and call federal officials to see whether ICE will accept the suspects.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/08/20100208arpaio-deputies-immigration-training.html
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