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Illegal? what if there is a crime committed as a result of this? then what happens? i think it's a really dicey proposition here to be doing this if it is for political posturing. that's what governor of arizona jan brewer thinks. she says this is pure political posturing and the height of absurdity given that the releases are being granted before the sequestration cuts have gone into effect. >> steve: see what, it does is by releasing 3, 4, 500, they're talking about pinnal county, they're thinking it could be more. what they're hoping is it puts the heat on the republicans to go ahead and ca...

Last night at 7 p.m., actually. we had such a fantastic response from all in law enforcement. we had 200 officers and deputies respond from not only pinnal county and maricopa and we have three suspects in custody now and are questioning them and our deputy is fine thank god, a grazing wound and twonl just one ak-47's, there were at least two and he was tracking five illegal suspects who were transporting drugs and they actually ambushed him so knowing that he is an officer of the law, and as he was tracking them, one of them laid in wait behind and the others continued on and that suspect had...

>> you know, in the news business, like to be cautious right away when we started reporting the story. alleged. we were hearing stories an alleged undocumented, a illegal alien. >> pinnal county is larger than the state of connecticut. there's no one found in that area who is not illegal, and just in that time period, within 24 hours, we had apprehended 17 illegals our self in the border patrol well over a hundred and it gives you a sense, yes, it's a remote area, but it's a smuggling corridor in pinal county. and every day, hey, it's not just one time a week, this is literally every day, thou...

Arizona. just in our county, pinnal county, sandwiched between metro phoenix, it's sandwiched between for drug smugglers and human. as any good citizen would pull to the side of the road, they are intentionally causing serious traffic hazards. they have caused wrecks, running red lights. puts our deputies and officers in harm's way. one thing new in their tactics, nearly every one of them is armed. so this created even with one of our deputies crashing into an actual ditch and into water, he was face down unconscious. another officer literally saved his life. >> what about opponents that said ...