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Appeals court slaps down Sheriff Joe’s ‘papers please’ policing

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that officers with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona must discontinue Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of detaining people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling sided with a lower court’s order last December, which required Arpaio end…