Migrates vs. the Police Department

Does it bother you that migrates are in your community? Well, it bothers Sherriff Gus Dicesari. He thinks that the community should be spending less money on migrate workers and more money on the Sherriff’s department and law enforcement. Commissioners Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne support him. Shenuski said in a heated discussion with Anne Chenn, the commission president, “ We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work. They are a problem for our law enforcement, our schools and our healthcare system. They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet it is one of them that’s taken it. We need to protect local residents from them.” Chenn shot back with, “Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don’t want to do. They add a great deal to the local economy and they pay taxes. You are being a hypocrite when you try to blame those people for everything.” The county commissioners estimated that there are 5,000 migrate families in the county and more migrate workers become permanent members of the community.
The county’s budget for this year was $127 million. Dicesari says that the police department needs eight new police vehicles to replace the eight older police vehicles that spend more and more time in the shop. Chenn made the decision that they officers would have to make do this year because the county did not have the extra money to supply the new vehicles and the five extra deputies. Chenn told him that the officers would just have to not drive those vehicles home everyday; it would save on gas mileage. The ending vote was that 5-2; they sheriffs department would just have to wait.