Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu denies threatening to deport lover

One of Arizona's rising Republican stars is facing allegations he threatened to deport a Mexican resident who claims to have been his gay ex-lover.

Pima County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who is running for Congress in Arizona, resigned from Romney's campaign after the Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly magazine, reported that Babeu had threatened to deport the man, a Mexican immigrant,

While saying for the first time publicly that he is gay, rising Republican star Sheriff Paul Babeu used a dramatic news conference on Saturday in Arizona to angrily deny allegations that had been leveled against him by an

17, 2012 the Phoenix New Times published a story alleging that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu had been in a relationship with a man named Jose and after the relationship ended that Babeu and his attorney had threatened Jose with deportation.

One of Arizona's rising Republican stars is facing allegations he threatened to deport a Mexican resident who claims to have been his gay ex-lover.