Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a hero of the Tea Party from the beginning, having chosen to enforce the laws against illegal immigration rather than ignore them, became a target of president Obama’s Justice Department lawyers who oversaw his conviction for defying a federal judge’s order to not detain suspected illegal immigrants, so Arpaio’s pardon by president Trump is certainly in good order, because if he hadn’t the full wrath of the Tea Party and Breitbart would have set upon him.
