An elected Yuma official and a former Arizona law enforcement officer team up to address drug smuggling as Border Patrol struggles to process migrant influx.
Arizona police have struggled to keep up with fentanyl traffickers as Border Patrol remains too overwhelmed by the migrant crisis to focus their efforts on drug smuggling, a former cop and a border town official told Fox News.
"As the Border Patrol agents have been tied up, now local law enforcement is dealing with the fentanyl further up," the president of the Border Security Alliance, Jobe Dickinson, told Fox News."State troopers are making traffic stops on the freeways up in northern Arizona, getting hundreds of thousands of pills." WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HERE
"Not only does that tie their resources up as they're getting stops… the local sheriffs aren't able to respond to local emergencies," said Dickinson, who served as a Tucson police officer for two decades. Since President Biden took office, nearly a quarter of the 4 million migrants who have crossed into the U.S.
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