As Washington, D.C. debates whether or not a wall will stop the flow of illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States, one Arizona county sheriff says it led to a dramatic 91 percent reduction in crime. But [politicians should] defer to the Border Patrol experts,” Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told Fox News. “They know the situation.”In 2006, President George W. Bush passed the Secure Fence Act which had a tremendous impact in Yuma County. Data from the U.S. Border Patrol also shows that since 2005, total illegal alien apprehensions dropped from 138,438 to 12,847 in 2017. “Our border patrol partners are overwhelmed,” said Wilmot.

Source: Fox News January 04, 2019 13:30 UTC