Southwest Ohio sheriff’s immigration remarks anger Hispanic group

Carolyn Hileman* | November 14, 2007  |

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The Associated Press

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — The Butler County, Ohio, sheriff is under fire again for remarks on illegal immigrants, this time for blaming them for importing marijuana and cocaine for Mexican dealers when they enter the U.S.

Rick Jones, sheriff of the county north of Cincinnati, posted a video on the sheriff’s Web site in which he states that drug dealers are paying illegal immigrants to smuggle drugs.

“Don’t believe all these people are coming for a better life,” Jones said in the video, made after a visit last month to the Mexican border in Cochise County, Ariz.

Jones is scapegoating immigrants for the country’s social and economic problems, said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities, a group that gathered in Cincinnati this weekend to discuss immigration issues.

Jones has complained that federal resources are stretched too thin to adequately police his region’s ballooning immigrant population. He was criticized by immigrants’ rights and civil rights groups last year following the detaining of 18 illegal immigrants.

Cabrera said he agrees with Jones that the federal government isn’t acting quickly enough on immigration issues. But he said Jones’ remarks were divisive.

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