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Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels checks out the border
fence to Mexico near the Huachuca Mountains.
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It's monsoon season in southern Arizona, so Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels has to drive slowly along the hilly, rocky, muddy terrain that covers the 83-mile border his county shares with Mexico.
He scans the horizon to see whether any immigrants or drug smugglers are approaching the 4-foot-high border fence. Glancing at the lights of a city in Mexico, he turns and says, "Seen any Border Patrol agents?"
Dannels' complaints about the lack of Border Patrol agents along the border suggests he supports a Senate plan to flood the Southwest border with 20,000 new agents. But he doesn't. He doesn't think border security proposals in the House will do much, either.
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Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Mark Dannels, stands at the
border fence near the Huachuca Mountains of southern
Arizona.
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They say they have proposals that will work — more prosecutions of border crossers, closer screening of people going through border crossings, putting pressure on Mexico to do its part. But they feel they've been shoved aside by a Congress more interested in cutting a deal than finding solutions.
"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."...Read the rest of the story HERE and view an Interactive presentation on the problems with the various plans.
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3 comments:
Perhaps some will now come to appreciate that what Rubio has proposed is 'border security on steroids'.
A four foot high divider between Arizona and Mexico; so impressive. I'm sure it is a real deterrent, NOT! The first place to begin is a significant barrier between our border and theirs. After a formidable fence is built, Congress and/or the President's defunding of other enforcement methods, which is pretty predictable, actually, won't leave us quite as stripped of defenses as we are now.
AZ
It seems odd though that from the beginning Team Obama has kept Border Sheriffs as well as Border security agents away from any input especially when these folks are in THE FRONT LINES and know for the most part what is needed.
No...Obama would rather wine & dine with ILLEGALS and their advocates instead.
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