Arizona Sheriff Scoffs at Suggestion to Tone Down Rhetoric
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published February 16, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, left, talks with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio during a meeting last year. In response to a letter from three local mayors asking him to tone down his rhetoric, Babeu said his jurisdiction is the 'number one pass through county' nationwide for smuggling people and drugs. (AP)
An outspoken Arizona sheriff has responded to a letter from the mayors of three border cities who asked him to tone down his comments on border security problems, saying, "feel free to 'drink the Kool-Aid'" of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Attorney General Dennis Burke and President Obama.
In a letter dated Feb. 14, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said his jurisdiction is the "number one pass through county" nationwide for smuggling people and drugs.
"The threat from an unsecured border is real, where 241,000 illegals were apprehended last year by the border patrol and an additional 400,000 got away just in Arizona alone!" the letter reads. "These are failing grades by anyone's score card."
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