Arizona sheriff says government has dropped immigration issue on his lap






By Josh Sweigart
Updated 7:14 AM Tuesday, May 25, 2010



COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. — Sheriff Larry Dever didn’t want to enforce immigration laws. That’s the federal government’s responsibility he said.

But the piles of trash, the theft of water from homes near the border, the drug hauls. The murder in March of a well-known local rancher by a suspected illegal immigrant. Those he couldn’t ignore.

“I don’t have the time, the money and the resources, but it’s my problem,â€