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Sheriff: Drug Cartels Now Control Some Parts of Arizona

Sheriff says his deputies are outmanned and outgunned. One unsafe area is more than 100 miles north of the Mexico-U.S. border.

"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he [Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu] said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has."

Babeu continues that he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.

Read more . . . [The Washington Times]