An Ohio sheriff said he supported renewing the death penalty for certain crimes as the state is devastated by nefarious activities stemming from the porous southern border in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones drew a connection between President Biden's border policies and an increase in chaos caused by illegal immigrants, which he said cost his taxpayers $4 million to jail them.
“I'm angry,” Jones said, adding that he could go on and on about the destruction caused by illegal immigrants. “People are fed up and we want something done. And I don't know if we can stand President Biden being here. And this is just a sample of what he has done. Lord, help us all.”
In the last three years, Jones said 1,000 illegal immigrants have been jailed for committing 2,000 crimes, many of them violent in nature.
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Sheriff Richard K. Jones doesn't mince words when it comes to crime in his county. “Am I really soft and furry and cuddly? No, I'm not,” Jones said. “I don't like criminals… Don't come to this county because you'll go to prison. You'll go to jail. That's my job.” (Fox News Digital | Hannah Grossman)
“We had a guy who was deported eight times. He was in my jail under eight different names, and that's what we know,” Jones told Fox News Digital. “He is here. He has committed a murder while he was here. And we believe this is not the first time he has committed a murder. And we have had people who have been hit by vehicles killed. We have had people who have been stabbed. That's why the “Crime is increasing.”
The sheriff recounted some incidents that tormented him. One incident occurred when an illegal immigrant pulled a 9-year-old girl off her bicycle and abused her. Another is about a paraplegic who was run over by an illegal immigrant, who fled the scene.
As for those who say local citizens also commit crimes, Jones responded, “I don't need any additional crime coming from other countries where they empty their prisons.”
The sheriff said he is currently teaching his county how to use guns to protect themselves from crime.
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“What would happen if Biden were re-elected? I think our country is in danger. But I'm not the only one. The government believes that if we continue on this trajectory, we are all in danger. We are training our civilians here how to protect themselves,” he said. .
The Butler sheriff added that he believed President Biden was actively preventing the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from doing their jobs.
Sources who spoke to Fox News said the first full day after the announcement of President Biden's executive order on the border did not have an immediate impact. (Getty Images)
“They block the federal government,” he said. “I am the government and I am ashamed and ashamed of the people we have in leadership positions. These other countries laugh at us. They look at our president, he can barely speak.”
“I guess when you're president, or you're these people in power, you don't go to the grocery store… I keep my ear to the ground and talk to people. They're fed up, they're upset and they're scared,” Jones added.
The White House announced last week long-awaited executive actions to prevent illegal immigrants at the southern border from seeking asylum if crossings reach a certain level, a move that will come just months before the November election. The order will temporarily suspend noncitizen entry across the southern border once the average number of border encounters exceeds 2,500 per day for seven days, officials said.
However, according to sources who spoke to Fox News, the first full day after the announcement of from President Biden The executive order restricting asylum for most illegal immigrants did not appear to have an immediate impact on the huge number of immigrants crossing the southern border.
Overall, there were approximately 5,600 encounters with CBP on Wednesday, including the 4,000 illegal crossings and CBP One app releases at ports of entry.
Jones has previously called on state lawmakers to pass legislation allowing authorities to file felony charges against anyone in Ohio who is an illegal immigrant, similar to a controversial measure in Texas, according to Fox 19.
“Our treatment here is far from kind. I'm not a very kind person,” he explained of his no-nonsense attitude.
“I think if you murder someone, the death penalty. I think if you abuse children or hurt them, the death penalty. I think terrorism, the death penalty. Selling drugs to someone who dies, the death penalty. “I can't make those rules,” he said.
Jones was particularly concerned about drugs being trafficked into Ohio.
“All [in Ohio] Know someone who died because of it. And it affects us all. It gives me chills when I tell you that,” the sheriff continued. “It doesn't seem like our president cares about that. He's more concerned about global warming and making us buy electric cars and get rid of our gas stoves.”
In recent years, the Ohio Attorney General's Office has seized more than 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine and more than 1,000 pounds of fentanyl. (Fox News Digital | Hannah Grossman)
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Ohio had the nation's fifth-highest death rate from drug overdoses, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 5,144 deaths in 2022 and 5,397 in 2021.
“The first thing I would tell the president is close the damn borders, take back our communities, let Americans go to work,” Jones said. “We have 5,000 people who die a year because of these drugs that come from Mexico.”
In recent years, the Ohio Attorney General's Office has seized more than 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine and more than 1,000 pounds of fentanyl. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office reported increases in drugs seized in 2023, particularly cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms.
The sheriff said the harm to Ohioans from his perception that Biden has failed to secure the southern border keeps him up at night.
“The people who come see me, that their loved ones have been killed by illegals, whether driving, intoxicated or have died from drug overdoses coming from the border… It keeps me up at night because of that,” Jones told Fox NewsDigital.
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As for those who may think the sheriff is politically incorrect, he explained that his job is to tell it like it is and blatantly put criminals in jail.
“Am I really soft and furry and cuddly? No, I'm not,” Jones said. “I don't like criminals… Don't come to this county because you'll go to prison. You'll go to jail. That's my job.”
Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
