USA TODAY: …The Senate and House have spent months crafting their own versions of overhauls to the nation’s immigration laws. Yet [Cochise, AZ County Sheriff Mark] Dannels is among more than a dozen sheriffs interviewed by USA TODAY who police the border from California to Texas and say the plans from Washington will do little to secure the border…
“They’ve had every organization up there except law enforcement. I just don’t understand that,” said Doña Ana County, N.M., Sheriff Todd Garrison. “If we just had a seat at the table and could express our concerns, it would at least shed some light on these issues.”…
The problem, [Hudspeth County, Texas, Sheriff Arvin] West says, is that Border Patrol agents are no longer on the border, but working many miles inland. West has spent 30 years in the western Texas county where most of the border fence consists of posts strung with a few strands of barbed wire. It’s dangerous work to patrol the wild, rugged terrain in the middle of the night… (more)
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