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Anoka County Cheriff Gus DiCesari has asked the county for more equipment and personnel, The request went to the county commissioners on Thursday. At the meeting DiCesari accused the commissioners of "shortchanging" the county sheriff department to save money. Sheriff DiCesari said, "You're putting the lives of the people of this county in jeopardy." Some county commissioners seem to disagree, such as Valerie Dawkins, Faith Ellis, Jose Gardoz, Roland Grauman and the Commission President Anne Chenn. Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne support the sheriff. Shenuski said, "We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work, they are a problem for law enforcement, our schools and our health care system. They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet it is one of them that's taken it. We need to protect local residents from them." Chenn disagreed completely that immigrants are the problem, she stated that they are decent people who take the jobs that local residents don't want to take. DiCesari said that he needs to replace eight older police cruisers. Chenn told DiCesari that sheriff's department would have to make do because the county did not have the additional $580,000 it would need to supply the new vehicles for the department and the five additional deputies he wants to hire. The commissioners voted 5-2 against the sheriff's request for additional money for eight new cruisers and five additional deputies.