Sheriff: Border Fence Helped Cut Crime in Yuma by 91 Percent

Politicians are ‘not out here when it’s 120 degrees, processing a crime scene where 14 people were left to die in the desert’

Sheriff Leon Wilmot in the desert by the U.S.–Mexico border near Yuma, Ariz., on May 25, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

YUMA, Arizona—Right along the southwest border, sheriff’s departments are left picking up the pieces in the wake of cross-border crime. It then spreads beyond the border.

Consequently, sheriffs need a bigger seat at the table during border security discussions, said ex-Marine and Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot.