https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2022-04-30/ex-prosecutor-allister-adel-dies-of-health-complications

PHOENIX (AP) — Former Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel, who recently resigned amid controversy over her performance in office, died Saturday of unspecified health complications, her family announced. She was 45.

Adel's husband, David DeNitto, said in a statement released on behalf of the family that they were “utterly heartbroken by this unimaginable loss."

The family’s statement did not elaborate on the cause of death but said that relatives requested that the “the press and the public honor her, her legacy and our family by respecting our privacy at this difficult time,”

Adel, a Republican and the first woman elected as Maricopa County attorney, had been criticized over issues that included dismissal of 180 misdemeanor cases because charges were not filed before the statute of limitations expired.

She also faced scrutiny over whether an acknowledged alcohol abuse problem had affected her ability to do the job.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called Adel's death tragic.

“The hearts and prayers of Arizonans are with Allister’s family, colleagues and close friends. May she rest In peace," Ducey said on Twitter.

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, Adel's interim successor, said Adel's “many years of service to our community leaves a legacy that impacted crime victims, first responders, and animals, just to name a few."

Adel was appointed to the office in October 2019 to fill a vacancy and she was elected to the office in November 2020.

She resigned in March, saying in a statement that winning the office had been an honor.

Adel underwent emergency surgery on election night in 2020 for a brain bleed. She was back on the job full-time by the following spring.

In August 2021, she went into rehabilitation for alcohol abuse, an eating disorder and other issues. In September, she confirmed she was working remotely from an out-of-state treatment facility.

Mitchell was among five criminal division chiefs in Adel's office who in February called into question Adel’s ability to do her job, saying she rarely was in the office, showed signs of being inebriated during phone calls and had not provided leadership.

Adel responded that she was not planning to resign and that she vehemently disagreed with their characterization of her.

Adel then faced tough criticism for the dismissal of the 180 misdemeanor cases that included people who had been charged with drunken driving, domestic violence, assaults and criminal damage.

Asked about the dismissals, Ducey had said leaders should take accountability for their actions and not blame their employees. Adel then apologized to the victims in those cases and said she took responsibility for what had happened in her office.

Adel’s office and the Phoenix Police Department also were criticized for a later-dismissed gang case brought against demonstrators at an October 2020 protest against police brutality.

Lawyers hired by the city to investigate said authorities didn’t have credible evidence to support the claim that protesters were members of an anti-police gang. Adel acknowledged that her office made mistakes in the case.

Adel is survived by her husband and two children.

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Biden gives 'free' phones to illegal immigrants, hell-bent on doing away with detention

Opinion by Tom Homan - 4h ago

When I first heard that the Biden administration was giving free smartphones to illegal aliens who recently crossed the border, I was incensed. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I instantly knew why, and that is because the administration doesn't want to detain them.

The open borders advocates have access to the same data I do that can be found within the 2020 Department of Homeland Security Enforcement Lifecycle Report. They know that if aliens are detained and receive a final order of removal from an immigration judge, the aliens will be removed 98 percent of the time.

The same report also shows that unless a deportable alien is fully detained, 85 percent will not be removed from the U.S. Only 6 percent of family groups leave as ordered and about 3 percent of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) leave as ordered. And let’s remember, 72 percent of UACs are of the age 15-17.

I have said for years that detention is a vital tool to ensure each alien gets due process and actually sees a judge and a court’s final decision can be carried out – whether it’s some sort of relief or an ordered departure. Many advocates and politicians insist these aliens have a right to claim asylum, and I agree. But if you believe that as a function of the legal system, then you also must stand by the decision of that legal process and respect it. Detention guarantees both.

However, this administration is attacking detention and Congress is limiting the funding for it. Under President Trump’s last full year there were more than 55,000 people in immigration detention and now there is about 25,000.

Next year's budget cuts funding from 34,000 beds to an even lower 25,000 beds. Many of the Democrat politicians want to end detention all together. Instead of detention, they want to focus on "alternatives to detention."

The most recent budget requests $527.1 million, an increase of $75 million, to expand those alternatives to detention monitoring programs. What ICE really needs is more technology, and they need to combine detention and all technology for effective enforcement to carry out its important mission.

We have done this in both Republican and Democrat administrations. We have never been able to get away from alternative programs and this administration is hell-bent of doing a lot more of it rather than detain.