‘We had it under control’ under Trump: AZ sheriff blasts Biden admin for border crisis

Arizona Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels blasted President Biden during an interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade over the exploding border crisis. He claims that Biden's reversal of Trump's illegal immigration policies has created a catastrophe on the southern U.S. border.

"When President Biden rescinded the emergency order on the southwest border, it stopped resources, and it stopped construction on our border," Dannels stated during a " Fox & Friends " interview this week.

"As a result of that, one area where the fence is not complete, we get five or six groups a day coming across there. It's [opened up] the border. It opened up the message that it's okay to come in this country. This administration owns this decision," he told Kilmeade. "And what it's doing is it's forcing us back to 2019, where we had the largest what I call crime scene in the country to include the largest humanitarian situation going on."

He claimed that the border is pretty much "wide open" right now. Local law enforcement is very frustrated and alarmed and Dannels says that "we had it under control" under the Trump administration.

"A year ago today, we were running, just on our camera system, 300 to 400 a month," Dannels stated concerning the number of illegal border crossings in his county. "In August, when the politics kicked up, we jumped up to 1,200 a month. In December, it was over 2,500 illegal entries to include over 500 pounds of illicit drugs. I just got the charts [the other day], it's skyrocketing back to numbers we saw in 2019. The reason we have MPP and these other programs President Trump put in place was because the 2019 caravan and surges. It worked. It's not working now."

Dannels also recently told the Washington Times: "We just buil... (Read more)

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