WASHINGTON -- Arizona sheriffs haven’t been ordered to help yet with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, and many would like to keep it that way.
“We’re not going to go out and actively try to hunt people down,� said Graham County Sheriff Preston Allred. “We have never done that. We don’t do that type of stuff.�
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