(The Center Square) – Arizona Gov Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott want other states to send police officers to aid their law enforcement agencies and federal immigration officials
Despite taxpayers shelling out nearly $100 million to fund a task force bent on stopping border-related crimes, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Friday it was powerless to investigate a suspected human smuggling case along a Phoenix freeway.
In a series of posts on Twitter, the Arizona Department of Public Safety described an incident during which a trooper stopped a van that carried 17 people suspected of being in the country illegally. The trooper had to let them go, the agency said, because federal authorities wouldn’t get involved.
It is not clear from the Twitter postings exactly how the incident started nor how it ended.
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