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Sheriff Mark Dannels |
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Sheriff Mark
J. Dannels (Republican
Party) is the current Sheriff of Cochise County,
Arizona |
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Sources: Wikipedia,
Ballotpedia & Vote
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Congressman
Andy Biggs, Sheriff Dannels and
Republican Congressman Brian Babbins (Texas) |
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Arizona Border Sheriff
Inflated Migrant Release
Numbers In TV Comments,
Official Data Shows |
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May 14, 2022 |
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"Cochise County Sheriff Mark
Dannels recently appeared on
network television with some
jaw-dropping remarks: 38,000
migrants came “across the
southeast corner of the
state of Arizona” and 21,000
of them “were released into
the United States”
in February." |
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Dannels, who serves as chair
for the National Sheriffs
Association’s Border
Security Committee and is a
member of the Arizona
Homeland Security-Regional
Advisory Council, has been
a frequent guest on Fox news
shows for the past year. |
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Arizona’s four border county
sheriffs, he has garnered
attention for his outspoken
commitment on border
security and his office’s
efforts in expanding a
real-time, motion-activated
camera system on the border
to monitor and alert agents
about illegal crossings. His
office is leading an
inter-agency operation to
deter and apprehend drivers
who smuggle people into the
U.S." |
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his TV appearance, Dannels
said 21,000 unauthorized
migrants crossing through
Cochise were released into
the U.S. that month.
That number doesn't reflect
data routinely released to
the public. The fate of most
migrants breaching the
national boundary through
the Tucson Sector is
expulsion under Title 42. |
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Dannels also cited accurate
statistics in a number of
misleading ways. |
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quoted high apprehension and
got-aways numbers as if they
were from Cochise County,
while the statistics
belonged to the whole Border
Patrol Tucson Sector. |
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said only 995 unauthorized
migrants were returned to
Mexico in February and
21,000 were released into
the United States. |
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data shows more than 17,600
were expelled back to Mexico
under Title 42. About 3,500
were placed into regular
immigration proceedings. |
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Dannels did not provide a
detailed response on why he
used Tucson Sector numbers
instead of Cochise County
and how he came to the
21,000 number." |
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Dannels, Others
Fired From Homeland
Security Advisory
Council |
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Sheriff Mark
Dannels, along with
several other
individuals, has
been dismissed from
the Homeland
Security Advisory
Council, a
bipartisan panel put
in place by the
Obama and Trump
administrations. The
“pink slip” to
Dannels and about 29
other members of the
advisory group was a
letter dated March
26 from Alejandro
Mayorkas, the new
secretary of the
Department of
Homeland Security.
Mayorkas was
recently appointed
by the Biden
administration to
head the federal
agency. |
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May 5, 2022 |
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