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    Is There A Crisis At The Border? This Longtime Arizona Sheriff Says 'No, There Isn't'

    A border wall is "not the silver bullet that's going to take care of drugs and people coming across the border," says Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada.
    Jan 24, 2019 4 minutes
    In this Dec. 5, 2017, photo, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada poses for a photo in Nogales, Ariz., on the U.S. side of the international boundary with Nogales, Mexico, where he was born. Estrada is a critic of President Trump's immigration policies and plans for a "big, beautiful" border wall. (Anita Snow/AP)

    The ongoing stalemate over President Trump’s border wall has real-life significance along the U.S.-Mexico border.

    In Nogales, Arizona, a steel fence topped with razor wire already separates the two countries. It’s terrain that Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada has been patrolling for decades. He’s been in border law enforcement so long that the building where he works in Nogales is named after him.

    Over the course of 26 years as sheriff, Estrada has witnessed significant changes along the border. Now, as descriptions of immigration chaos continue to emerge from Washington, he’s encouraging people to come to Nogales for proof of what’s apparent to him every day: “There is no crisis down here.”

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