During the campaign for the ballot measure, Thomas asserted that "ar too many illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes have jumped bail and slipped across the border in order to avoid justice in an Arizona courtroom." Approved in 2006 by nearly 80% of the state's voters, the law was challenged by the ACLU in a 2008 class-action, and ruled unconstitutional by an en banc panel of the U.S. illegally and charged with a range of felonies. Thomas helped draft and campaigned for Proposition 100, a ballot measure aimed at denying bail to people who are in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix in 2013, with the current Maricopa County Attorney declining to appeal the ruling. This practice was initially upheld by Arizona's appeals court in 2008, but was found unconstitutional by the U.S. Thomas prosecuted illegal immigrants as co-conspirators in smuggling themselves, under his interpretation of Arizona's 2005 human smuggling law. See also: Illegal immigration to the United StatesĪs Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas kept the issue of illegal immigration at the forefront of Arizona politics. During his time in office, he lobbied for and helped pass legislative bills targeting identity theft, human smuggling, control of methamphetamine, crimes against unborn children and victims' rights.
Īs Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas also focused on the rights of crime victims, and adopted tough policies on violent crime, child exploitation, identity theft and repeat offenders. PoliciesĪs a candidate for Maricopa County Attorney, Andrew Thomas campaigned on "tough on crime, tough on illegal immigration" principles, and promised to stop illegal immigration.
And people are fearful that they are being targeted just because of the color of their skin." Thomas still won the election decisively, beating Nelson by an over 7% margin. Nowhere has that partisanship been more in evidence than in his rabid pursuit of the small fry of illegal immigration, the petty hoodlums and the traffic violators." Rick Romley stated "Police chiefs tell me that the Maricopa County attorney's relationships with their police agencies are at an all-time low. The Arizona Republic wrote "Thomas simply has worn his intensely partisan Republican politics too boldly on his sleeve. In his 2008 re-election bid, Thomas faced Democrat Tim Nelson. Thomas won the election easily, with over 58% of the votes cast. Thomas was endorsed by The Arizona Republic newspaper, the outgoing Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, then Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon, and the former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods. Thomas faced the Democrat Don Harris in the general election. He posted the phrase "Stop Illegal Immigration" on his campaign road signs. Thomas ran for Maricopa County Attorney in 2004 on a platform of seeking tougher sentences for violent criminals and stopping illegal immigration. He took office in January 2005, with virtually no prosecutorial experience. Thomas joined the Maricopa County Attorney's Office as a Deputy County Attorney in 2003, then ran successfully for Maricopa County Attorney in 2004, having campaigned for state-based laws and initiatives against illegal immigration, pledging to pursue " fetal homicide" cases, and opposing same-sex marriage. In 2002, Thomas easily won the Republican nomination for Arizona Attorney General, but lost the general election to Terry Goddard, though he managed to make waves with strong stands against crime, abortion and, especially, illegal immigration. Thomas later became chief attorney at the Arizona Department of Corrections. Thomas moved to Arizona to join a law firm in Phoenix, where he practiced civil litigation, and left in 1994 to be Assistant Attorney General for Arizona, followed by posts as deputy counsel and criminal justice policy advisor to governor Fife Symington III. in political science from the University of Missouri in 1988 and a J.D. Thomas was born in Long Beach, California, in 1966 and spent most of his childhood in Missouri's Ozarks. On April 10, 2012, Thomas was disbarred by a disciplinary panel of the Arizona State Supreme Court for his actions as county attorney. During his term in office, he was known for his anti-illegal immigrant policies. He was the county attorney for Maricopa County in Arizona from 2004 until April 6, 2010. Andrew Peyton Thomas (born 1966) is an American politician, author and former attorney.
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