U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is releasing illegal immigrants into Cochise County, Arizona.
The move comes as facilities are overwhelmed with the amount of migrants.
“Today’s announcement that CBP will begin migrant street releases into Cochise County is just another reflection of the fracture within the [Department of Homeland Security] infrastructure regarding the security of our southern border,” Sheriff Mark J. Daniels said in a statement.
“These releases are a direct result of over-capacity by CBP which is forcing these migrant releases into our communities.”
Daniels noted that the “migrants being released are from outside Cochise County but were bussed to Cochise County, processed and then released. Cochise County is a rural county with limited resources leaving these migrants vulnerable. In short, this lack of humanitarian consideration poses risk for the migrants.“
“I applaud the local CBP agents and their leadership for doing all they legally can during this on-going crisis and I repeat my statement, ‘The intellectual avoidance and abandonment with intended consequences” by those leaders in Washington DC reference our southern border continues to be a slippery slope for those doing everything we can to protect our quality of life here in Cochise County!'”
Reporting from The National Post:
Within hours of this post, Sheriff Dannels reported two separate people-smuggler interdictions, catching one transporting a group of five migrants, including a 12-year-old boy, and another transporting 12 migrants.
