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This is what I was talking about as it concerns more local control.

"The Homeland Security Department wants Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., to stop arresting illegal immigrants whose only crime was crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without documents."

I'm not a fan of the "toughest Sheriff" in the land but it leaves me baffled why he and other local departments are hindered when they are just "TCB".

I THINK the Feds have to pay the state(s) to house these illegals. If every Sheriff in the land started doing this the jails would fill up, the costs would go through the roof, the backlog in the courts would take 10 years, it would be a mess. MAYBE that's why the Feds are trying to discourage it?