WEATHERFORD -- Area law enforcement officials grappling with illegal immigration and the problems they say it brings -- from drug trafficking to increased demand on healthcare providers -- said Monday that they need help dealing with the issue in North Texas.
That help could come from Congress, which they say could send more money for training and equipment, or from the state, which might gain the ability to tax transfers of money out of the country and use that revenue to help law enforcement or healthcare.
"There's no end to it," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said of illegal immigration. "It's just a fact of life."
Fowler was among more than a dozen law enforcement officials, along with state Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, and Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, who joined U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, for a round-table discussion about immigration Monday in Weatherford.
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