The federal government does not have the resources to house illegal immigrants arrested in Hamblen County or to transport them to their countries of origin.
That’s the message Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnagin said he received recently from a federal official in Washington D.C.
Jarnagin declined to identify the messenger, who effectively hobbled the legislative initiative to allow local law enforcement officials to enforce some federal immigration laws.
"The money was not there," Jarnagin said this morning. "It was a breakdown in the federal aspect of it.
"What frustrated me is that the federal government is not preventing illegal aliens from coming across the border, and we are not getting any support when illegal aliens overrun a community," the sheriff added.
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