A Pennsylvania county has ended its “sanctuary” status for illegal aliens as the nation’s fentanyl crisis has hit the community, spilling over from the United States-Mexico border.
Officials in Butler County, Pennsylvania — which has consistently voted Republican in the last few election cycles — have ended the area’s sanctuary county status that helped keep illegal aliens from being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger told WTAE4 News that the decision was made as the community has been recently flooded with fentanyl arriving from the border, often with border crossers and illegal aliens.
“Our crime is not just DUIs and retail theft anymore. We have drugs,” Goldinger said. “Again, that stuff has not come from citizens that are making fentanyl in Butler County. It’s being brought here.”