Arizona sheriff: Biden stopped building the wall and created a 'crime scene' at the border

An Arizona sheriff is calling out the Biden administration for politicizing law enforcement by halting the border wall construction, a decision he says puts American communities in danger.

Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" Friday that President Joe Biden's executive order ending the border wall construction is "a product of politics within policing."

"When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the Southwest border, it stopped resources and stopped construction on our border. As a result of that, one area where the fence is not complete we get five or six groups a day coming across there," Dannels said.

On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order terminating former President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and defunding construction of the border wall, directing those taxpayer funds elsewhere. Biden called the border wall a "waste of money" and "not a serious policy solution."

But Dannels says in Cochise County, which contains 83 miles of border wall, the end of wall construction has created an opportunity for criminal cartels to enter the United States.

"This administration owns this decision," Dannels said.

The sheriff shared pictures taken at the border in his county that show migrants traveling to the United States, including heavily armed drug cartel smugglers.

"It's wide open right now," Dannels told host Brian Kilmeade. "It's wide open and with the chaos going on at the border based on these administrative decisions — We saw this in 2019, Brian, where 141 countries breached our southwest border in the fi... (Read more)

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