Arizona Sheriff Arpaio sues over Obama's immigration order

By Sean Lengell |

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County has filed a lawsuit challenging President Obama's...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County has filed a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s unilateral action on immigration.
The outspoken lawman calls the president’s move “unconstitutional” and says it will “have a serious detrimental impact on my carrying out the duties and responsibilities.”
Arpaio said the president’s action will significantly strain his department’s resources, both in manpower and financially, because it will release “criminal aliens back onto streets of Maricopa County, Ariz., and the rest of the nation.”
“I am not seeking to myself enforce the immigration laws as this is the province of the federal government,” he said. “Rather, I am seeking to have the president and the other defendants obey the U.S. Constitution, which prevents this executive order from having been issued in the first place.”
The president on Thursday night announced an executive action to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, marking the most sweeping changes to the nation's fractured immigration laws in almost three decades.