Border BoletĂ*n:
Border Patrol chief calls Dever's apprehensions claim false

Brady McCombs Arizona Daily Star
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 11:28 am

The national chief of the U.S. Border Patrol says allegations made last week by Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever that Border Patrol agents are being instructed not to arrest all illegal border crossers to keep apprehension numbers down are 100-percent false.
In a letter dated Monday, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher wrote that he read Dever's comments to Fox News with "enormous disappointment and concern."

"The assertion is completely, 100 percent false and, most disturbingly, it unfairly casts a negative light on the hard work done each day in service to the nation and at risk to themselves by the men and women of the Border Patrol," Fisher wrote. "That it comes from a fellow law enforcement official makes it especially offensive."

"Law enforcement and border security decisions made at the operational level require the apprehension and arrest of every illegal border crosser," Fisher wrote. "Your unwarranted allegation to the contrary is just wrong."

You can read the full letter in the box to the left.

Here is an excerpt of what Dever said last week:

“The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back,â€