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Dragged. denise's devastated parents belief their son's death did not have to happen. >> i'm just consumed, consumed with heartbreak. >> the sadness now and the anger of, you know, how this, how many different ways this could have all been prevented. megyn: trace gallagher has more on that. trace? >> reporter: you know, megyn, several massachusetts sheriffs now say they are ready for a high noon showdown with governor deval patrick over immigration enforcement. governor patrick has come out against the secure communities act, the program that would allow law enforcement officers to check the i...

Go where nobody's going to notice them. and if we're sending out a message that this is where you can, basically, come, and we're not going to pay much focus to your status, well, it's no wonder we're run into the kind of problems we are. >> reporter: so now the sheriffs a using a longstanding federal program called 287g. they actually send their deputies to be trained as immigration agents so then they would legally be able to check the immigration status of those in jail. and this is all because of a rash of high-profile crimes allegedly by illegal immigrants including a brazilian man arrest...