Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels blamed the Biden administration for rising seizures of fentanyl, growing numbers of traffickers and increasing encounters with people-smugglers along the Arizona's border with Mexico.
By Alexis Waiss Cronkite News Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told a sharply divided House committee Wednesday that drug trafficking and illegal immigration is getting worse and that it’s affecting the safety of residents in his border county.
People are also reading… “Under President Trump the border was secure. Under President Biden there is no border,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the new committee chairman. “And Americans are paying the price.” The hearing comes amid a time of steep challenges at the border. The number of migrants apprehended at the southern border reached a record 2.38 million in fiscal 2022. That pace continued into fiscal 2023, with more than 700,000 encounters in the first three months of the fiscal year, capped by a record 251,487 in December.
In an emailed statement Wednesday, a DHS spokesperson brushed off the impeachment threat, saying the agency will “continue our work to enforce our laws and secure our border, while building a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system.” Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., called it “a false narrative” to put the blame entirely on the Biden administration for the current state of America’s immigration system. Titling the hearing “‘Biden’s border crisis’ … is completely wrong,” he said.
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