ICE official has seen both sides of immigration
By Art Hovey Lee Enterprises
Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010 - 10:05:41 am CST

LINCOLN -- Jerry Heinauer is a tall, trim man with long legs.

You can picture him, as part of the border patrol for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the 1970s, stretching out those legs and catching up with illegal immigrants threading their way through the sagebrush that separates Mexico and Yuma, Ariz.

“I have run after people and tackled them,â€