Sheriffs: Immigrant 'round-ups' equate to racial profiling: Santa Rosa lawman supports creation of regional task force.

Byline: Jill Nolin

Aug. 11--Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendall Hall says that forming a regional task force to address illegal immigration would be the first step toward achieving meaningful change.

"I think everybody -- everyone who is in this country -- should be here legally, but it is not a simple local problem," Hall said.

"It should be at least a fourcounty problem that we should sit down and address as a whole and come up with something that would be effective."

He does not believe "roundups" at construction sites do that.

"Absolutely not," Hall said when asked if he would use that tactic.

Okaloosa County Sheriff …