An Arizona sheriff is speaking out against President Joe Biden’s decision to halt construction of the border wall, saying the decision created a “crime scene” on the US-Mexico border.
“When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the southwest border, he stopped resources and construction on our border,” Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona, told Fox & Friends on Friday.
“As a result of that area where the fence is not complete, we receive five or six groups a day that cross over there.”
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“This decision is from the government,” he added. “And what you’re doing is forcing us to go back to 2019, when we had the largest, what I call, the country’s crime scene, including the largest ongoing humanitarian situation.”
The county of Cochise de Dannels includes 83 miles from the US-Mexico border. The sheriff also chairs the National Sheriffs’ Association’s Border Security Committee.
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Dannels told Brian Kilmeade that he believes the government’s decision is politically motivated.
“It is a product of politics within policing,” he said. “And I always said that they had nothing to do with our business, in the business of policing what we do on this frontier in our communities.”
Dannels said the current situation at the border has an impact on public health and safety.
“No one is talking about what is happening on the southwestern border when it comes to the health pandemic in this country,” said Dannels.
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“And then you look at the public security aspect of that, it is worrying,” he added. “It is almost as if we are not part of this country, which is very disturbing.”