(Radio Iowa) Shelby County Sheriff Neil Gross, Carroll County Sheriff Ken Pingrey, and Cerro Gordo County Sheriff Kevin Pals, are three of ten sheriffs in Iowa to sign a letter sent to President Joe Biden this week urging him to secure the southern border and stop the mass influx of illegal immigration. Sheriffs in Clayton, Greene, Grundy, Iowa, Lucas, Scott, and Wayne Counties also signed on.

The letter said ““In the interests of ending the undermining of our laws and the increased risks to the safety and security of the people of the United States of America, we respectfully request that you immediately reverse course on your pro-illegal immigration policies, resume the border wall construction, and embrace the common-sense, public-safety-supporting border policies of the previous administration.”

Sheriff Kevin Pals there are enough illegals with bad intentions coming in that they are placing a strain on local law enforcement agencies. “The problem is identifying some of these people. They are hard to identify, and if they’ve never been arrested before even taking their fingerprints for identification purposes — sometimes we don’t know who they are,” Pals says. “The problem is there are some who have gotten deported and they are back in North Iowa within two week,” Pals says.

Pals says most of those causing problems are from one part of the world. He says the majority are from Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil that are coming here. He says those from other countries have such small numbers that they are not detected. Pals says it is not just law enforcement that is trying to deal with the influx. “And the human services that are necessary to care for these people. We’ve got homeless people in North Iowa and then we are bringing in other people. How is our system going to continue to support these people,” Pals says.

Almost 275 sheriff’s from 39 states including Iowa signed the letter sent to the President.