The border crisis is a challenge to local law enforcement in most states, Sheriff Matt Gentry of Cullman County, Alabama, told senators Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
Gentry and other Alabama law enforcement officials visited the Texas-Mexico border last year, where he recalls “seeing how a president and a liberal media are lying about what we are facing.”
Most of the illegal aliens pouring over the border weren’t women and children, the sheriff said, but men ages 18 to 25 from Somalia, China, and Haiti.
“Guess what? That is moving to our state. And you think, well, how does it affect local law enforcement?” Gentry asked rhetorically at the Police Week event sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
“We’re going to deal with it first. We’re going to deal with the drugs coming across the border,” Gentry said, answering his own question….
