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Renard Johnson: “We're already short 400 officers. We cannot be enforcing…”

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ABC 7 Sunday Xtra The Race for El Paso Mayor Part 1

Published December 10, 2024 | Video Starts at 12:31

In addition to this, Mark, I don't think we need to use any of our local police resources, public safety officers, specifically police, to enforce immigration. We don't have the bandwidth. We don't have the resources. We're already short 400 officers. We cannot be enforcing immigration. So that would be off the table for me. We don't have the men and women in uniform to do that. So we know what's going to happen. (12:31–12:36)

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Asserts that El Paso is short 400 police officers and cannot enforce immigration.

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