McCain-supporting, government-fearing Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu is at it again, this time claiming that Mexican drug cartels are in control of portions of U.S. territory down near the border. But other law enforcement officials we talked to dismissed this idea.
One of them is Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, whose county is on the border (unlike Babeu’s). “They do not have control of any territory,” Estrada says. “I’ve seen just about everything. But what I’ve not seen is a beheading, and I’ve not seen the cartels controlling American territory.”
Estrada also told TPM that “there are a lot of things that are happening this election year” and that “a lot of the fear is going to die after November.”
