The far greater border-security threat is paramilitaristic drug cartels that often are also involved in humansmuggling, increasingly from Central American countries.
For instance, Arpaio and the county attorney, Andrew Thomas, who shares his views, have settled on a novel interpretation of a state law against humansmuggling.
It grows in intensity and cost every year, and it saps us of important resources that should be devoted to more important crime-fighting such as humansmuggling, or to drug treatment.