UPDATE: The following is a press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff's office:

CAVE CREEK - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Illegal Immigration Interdiction Unit (Triple I), is continuing its crime suppression operation today in the Town of Cave Creek in and around the Good Shepherd of the Hills Church.  This, after yesterday’s operation stats totaled 19 people arrested and taken into custody,  18 of whom were determined to be illegal aliens. One of those arrested yesterday was a male prostitute wanted on a felony warrant for identity theft.

This is the second day of this operation which comes as a result of a plea from citizens in Cave Creek, voicing their complaints and concerns about day laborer and illegal alien activity in the town.

Recently a federal court shot down an ordinance which would have loitering or soliciting work from a roadway illegal.

Arpaio says, “These people are foolish if they think the Sheriff’s Office is going to be dissuaded from enforcing the law just because the city does not have this ordinance in place.”

One-day illegal round-up in Cave Creek

PHOENIX -- The following is a press release from the MCSO:

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Joe Arpaio’s Illegal Immigration Interdiction Unit (Triple I), Tuesday responded to complaints from Cave Creek citizens regarding day laborer problems at the Good Shepherd of the Hills Church.

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The Triple I team arrested 18 illegal aliens under state and federal immigration laws in Tuesday’s operation. While the day laborer problems in Cave Creek have continually been enforced by deputies, this time citizen complaints came in reference day laborer and illegal alien activity near the Carefree Highway.

In recent weeks, there has been a significant increase in the number of arrests made for human smuggling/load vehicles in the area of Interstate 17 and Carefree Highway. In response to that activity, the Sheriff’s Illegal Immigration Interdiction Unit did a saturation patrol in the Cave Creek area beginning early Tuesday morning.

In a matter of five hours, deputies conducted 81 interviews, in the process of making 59 traffic violation stops. During those traffic stops, 19 people were arrested and taken into custody, including the 18 illegal aliens.

“Every crime suppression operation shows us the immigration problem in Maricopa County is pervasive and our next stop is Mesa,” says Sheriff Arpaio.

The Sheriff’s Office has conducted several crime suppression operations this year resulting in a total of 193 arrests; and 77 warrants were cleared.

Of the 193 people arrested, 107 were determined to be illegal aliens.