'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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President Obama may have placed some limits on lobbyists serving in the White House, but he has had no problem continuing the timeworn Washington practice of doling out coveted diplomatic posts to big-money backers.

The chairman of a House committee investigating the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation demanded Thursday that the Justice Department make a second key federal prosecutor in Arizona available for questioning about "his role in and knowledge of" the controversial probe.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "America's toughest lawman," was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department's handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "America's toughest lawman," was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department's handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system.