El Paso Sheriff Fears Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Anti-Immigration Push

By Elizabeth Llorente
Published January 13, 2011

MARCH 20, 2010: An El Paso police officer stands guard at the funeral of Juárez murder victims Lesley Enriquez and Arthur Redelfs attend a ceremony at a cemetery in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It sits beside Mexico’s deadliest city, Ciudad Juárez.

Nearly a third of its residents are foreign-born, many of them from Mexico and undocumented and struggling financially.

Yet El Paso, Texas manages to come out on top as the safest large city in the United States – a distinction due in no small part to the trust law enforcement authorities in El Paso County have built between themselves and the largely Mexican immigrant community, said Sheriff Richard Wiles.

“We’ve worked years and years to build up that trust,â€