The Sheriff is the highest-ranking law enforcement officer with in a county in the US. Knowing this gives statements from a Sheriff that much more credibility. Below three Sheriff’s share information to help you stay informed about what is going on to help you be aware.
Sheriff Leeper noted that 2 milligrams is a lethal dose of fentanyl. Fentanyl seized in 2017 was 1,196 pounds. In 2023, that was 43,000 pounds – and growing. How much got through? There are 453,500 milligrams in a pound. The numbers are staggering.
The National Sheriff’s Association met recently. What Sheriffs heard was troubling. Fentanyl is only one issue. They announced at the meeting their opposition to the proposed border legislation. Sheriff opposition seems logical. Yet the border remains open. Citizens need to speak out to every elected official to take action to secure the border.
Below are some thoughts from 3 Sheriffs:
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd talks about the problem and how our community needs to work to protect our local community. Problems include illegal immigrants, terrorists, fentanyl, Federal non-enforcement, etc. Sheriff Judd says churches and houses of worship must engage the community, obey laws and change leadership, as necessary.
Sheriff Jones in Ohio shares a strong video message about his experience at the national Sheriff’s conference and advice to stay alert.
Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper shared a message for Nassau County. He too shared that “the crisis at our southern border puts the safety of every single community in America at risk”.
“…the most simple thing people can do is be aware of their surroundings and should they see anything suspicious just let law enforcement know so it can be checked out.”
Message from Bill Leeper
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 10:58 AM
I visited our southern border in Arizona in November 2022 and met with border patrol agents and border sheriffs. What I saw and heard was alarming to say the least. It appears that those in leadership positions in Washington DC either do not care or just plain refuse to deal with the issues of illegal border crossings. Today, every state in America is considered a border state because of issues they are having to deal with like human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and fentanyl overdoses which can be traced back to the border.
The crisis at our southern border has only gotten worse. Recent figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show record levels of border crossings with no sign of improvement while fentanyl is flooding into our communities. The crisis at our southern border is a crisis that affects every community around the nation.
Over the last three years there have been over 4.6 million illegal crossings of our southern border. For the 23rd month in a row, our southern border had more than 150,000 illegal crossings, with nearly 70% of these encounters being single adults. These number do not include the hundreds of thousands of “got-a-ways” which are those who cross our southern border and are not caught.
The men and women on the frontlines of our southern border are experiencing record numbers of arrests, migrant deaths, narcotics seized, and suspected terrorists trying to illegally cross the border. While our border patrol agents are doing their best to stem the flow of illegal immigration, they are continuing to struggle to secure our border because they do not have sufficient resources to handle the intense surge in crossings.
One of the more shocking statistics is that over 1,400 pounds of fentanyl were seized just last month. To put this into perspective, a lethal dose of fentanyl is 2 milligrams. That means the equivalent of 317.5 million lethal doses of fentanyl—almost enough to kill every man, woman, and child in America—was being smuggled into our country in just one month. And those are just the drugs our border patrol agents found. This deadly drug is pouring into our communities and killing our families, our neighbors, and our children because our border patrol agents do not have the tools or funding they need to secure our borders. Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for people ages 18-45. In Nassau County over the past three years about 70% of drug overdose deaths were from fentanyl.
Border security is national security, and the crisis at our southern border puts the safety of every single community in America at risk.