News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Dupnik setting up border crime unit

It's unclear if it will enforce federal immigration laws

DAVID L. TEIBEL

Published: 04.21.2007

Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, who for years has bemoaned the strain that border crime places on his department, is forming a squad of officers who will fight crime along the Pima County-Mexico border.

A sergeant and six deputies will enforce state and local laws along the border, the Sheriff's Department said in a news statement Friday.

It was not immediately clear whether the deputies also will be told to enforce federal immigration law, something Dupnik for years has said is a federal responsibility he would not shoulder.

Dupnik has stressed that he considers his responsibility to be the enforcement of local laws and investigating crimes, such as murder, robbery, burglary and auto theft. He has said he does not have enough deputies or money to enforce those laws and federal immigration laws.

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