By Andrew L. Jaffee

A sheriff in Arizona is trying to get illegal immigration under control, but NPR thinks what he’s doing is “controversial:”

Confronted with illegal border crossing in Arizona, the Maricopa County Sherriff’s [sic] office has turned to a traditional Western solution: the posse. Wednesday night, sheriff’s deputies and members of the department’s 300-member reserve force were sent to patrol the desert and round up illegal immigrants suspected of paying smugglers to cross the border.

The new practice is based on a controversial interpretation of a state law making it a crime to smuggle illegal aliens. In the Maricopa interpretation, it is also a crime to pay a smuggler.

“Making it a crime to smuggle illegal aliens” is controversial? And NPR can’t even spell the word “sheriff.”

Feature: The Immigration Debate