Border city of Yuma is on the brink of collapse under ‘unprecedented’ migrant surge
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The border city of Yuma, Arizona, is on the verge of collapse with the unprecedented flow of migrants leaving the community on the verge of collapse and hospitals and food banks overloaded.
Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines has criticized the Biden administration for its handling of the border crisis, saying his county will collapse because it cannot withstand the cascading flow of migrants.
Officials say some 5 million migrants have crossed the southern US border since January 2021, when the Biden administration took over the White House.
After the Yuma County Border Patrol noted a 171% increase in migrant crossings between 2021 and 2022, Lines warned that the situation will only get worse.
Large numbers of migrants continue to cross into the United States at the southern border in Yuma, Arizona.
Migrants await processing after crossing the border on Friday, January 6, 2023, near Yuma, Arizona.
Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines (pictured at the county border) criticized the Biden administration for handling the border crisis
“They are coming because they said Biden told them to come,” Lines said. Pictured: President Biden at the White House, Washington, January 20, 2023
mr lines said foxnews: ‘Policies need to be changed when you see an unprecedented number of people crossing the border that even exceeds what we’ve seen under any of the other presidents over the last 30 years.’
He called the growing increase in crossings ‘ridiculous’.
“They are coming because they said that Biden told them to come, that we have an open border.”
Yuma is known as the “Sunniest City on Earth,” but in recent years it has become the US hotspot for immigrant crossings that has pushed its border control to the limit.
Facilities along the border are being pushed to breaking point due to the increasing flow of migrants, with residents reportedly unable to access the city’s only hospital.
The number of migrants crossing the US southern border since January 2021 when the Biden administration took over the White House has increased.
The unprecedented influx of migrants left Yuma on the brink of collapse and hospitals and food banks overwhelmed. Pictured: Migrants serve food donated by a resident at the southern border, December 21, 2022
Large numbers of migrants continue to cross into the United States through Yuma, December 27, 2022
Immigrants come from Central America hoping for a better life for themselves and their families, but locals and critics of current immigration policy see the current numbers as unsustainable.
Most immigrants are drawn to the area by the relative ease of crossing the border, authorities say. According to Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, there are 50 breaches in the border wall along the 126-mile Yuma sector, including the infamous ‘Gap.’
Huge container-sized gaps in the 30-foot border wall allow migrants to squeeze through, aided by a thinly spread Border Patrol. However, construction is currently underway to fill in some of the gaps.
To add to the wave, Fox News reported that his sources confirmed that 1.2 million illegal immigrants had escaped the Border Patrol force since January 2021.
Border counties like Yuma are trying to balance the needs of residents with immigrants lining up.
Construction workers stand at a job site at the US-Mexico border where work has begun to fill the border gaps, previously filled by shipping containers, in Yuma, Arizona, US, January 12. of 2023
Immigrants line up to report to US Border Patrol agents after spending the night camped out along the US-Mexico border fence on December 22, 2022.
Asylum seekers line up to be processed by US Customs and Border Patrol agents at a gap in the US-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Arizona on December 26, 2022.
Asylum seekers try to warm up by a small campfire as they wait to be processed by a US Customs and Border Patrol agent near the US-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Arizona, on June 26. December 2022
Pressure has also been put on the city when it comes to food, as migrants trekking through farm fields risk a pillar of the community’s local economy. Yuma is the winter lettuce capital of the US due to its famous year-round sunshine. It produces 93 percent of the country’s lettuce during the winter months.
Local farmer Alex Muller said foxnews: ‘Our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens. You can’t have people walking across the field.
County Supervisor Lines called on the Biden administration to act to ease pressure on border counties and to visit Yuma to witness the strain that has been placed on the community.
“Please come and see for yourself,” Lines said, addressing the Biden administration on foxnews.
“I have invited them several times and I would invite them again right now,” he added.
A bipartisan delegate from Washington DC, led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and John Cornyn, visited Yuma earlier this month. However, officials complained that they saw a ‘sanitized’ version of the border crisis.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Texas Republican John Cornyn and Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema arrived to visit the border earlier this month.
Migrants wait along a border wall after crossing from Mexico, near Yuma, Arizona, on August 23, 2022.
The southern border of the United States in Yuma, Arizona, January 10, 2023
Lines said after the visit that border crossings had been reduced to almost nothing amid stricter activity on the Mexican side, while discarded shoes, medicine bottles and other evidence of illegal crossings had been removed from the US side. .
‘Everything has been 100% sanitized here too. Even more than they have done before. And we’re actually not even seeing people coming across the border right now,” she said.
“It’s interesting because I’ve had several congressional delegations come to Yuma and the unannounced delegations always see the real border challenge, not the hyped ones.”
Lines said senators would see little to help them understand the nature of the crisis.
‘It’s a lie,’ he said. They are misrepresenting what is really happening at the border.
“Anytime there’s a high-profile visit, this is par for the course, so people never get to see what it looks like.”