Border crisis: I'm a Texas sheriff with 4 deputies patrolling 110 miles. We need help.
In all my 42 years here, I have never seen so many migrants risking their lives to cross the Rio Grande as in the past couple of months.
Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez
Opinion contributor
I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry when I hear Washington politicians arguing whether or not the number of migrants crossing our southern border has reached the point of “crisis.”
I know there’s a crisis. We are living it, every single day.
By way of introduction, I have served as the elected sheriff of Val Verde County, Texas, for the past 12 years. Before that, I served in local law enforcement for 30 years, mostly in Val Verde County.