wombatwoody wrote on Jan 31
st, 2023 at 8:17am:
Right, Arizonians just love Democrat policies:
A major border city is on the brink of collapse because of Biden's immigration policies, local official says
Yuma can't sustain the continued border crisis as migrants overwhelm the city's resources
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
'Biden told them to come': Arizona border city on brink of collapse from illegal immigration, officials say
Yuma, Arizona, is on the brink of collapse, say city officials, citing President Biden's border policies that have resulted in a massive influx of illegal immigration in the area, as reported by Fox News.
A Yuma official told the outlet that a surge of migrants crossing the border have overloaded food banks and hospitals and blamed the president for encouraging the individuals to make the trek: "They're coming because they said that Biden told them to come, that we have an open border," said Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines.
"It will only get worse with Biden's policies," the supervisor said. "He needs to reassess."
Lines described an "unprecedented amount" of migrants coming across the border, unlike anything he has seen over previous presidencies during his tenure of over 30 years.
Local Yuma farmers, speaking to Fox News, said that the foot traffic of migrants making journeys through their fields is damaging crops, which they alleged account for over 90% of the nation's leafy greens.
"Our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens," a farmer named Alex Muller said. "You can't have people walking through the field," he added.
Yuma, Arizona, has seen unprecedented and massive increases in encounters at its border crossing under President Biden.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in 2020, the land crossing saw just 8,437 encounters. In 2021 under Biden, that number jumped to a whopping 114,043. Then, in 2022, the number increased to 309,569.Extrapolating on the encounters of the first fiscal quarter of 2023, current trends would result in approximately 320,000 border encounters by the end of the fiscal year.
"The problem that we're foreseeing right now is there's a couple of big waves coming," another farmer and Yuma resident told Fox News. "Yuma can't support that. It will overwhelm the system here," the farmer claimed.
just more BS,
how about the 50,000 in May of 2019, you know under Trump

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than
50,000 illegal aliens since the start of fiscal year 2019, continuing the trend of doubling apprehensions each year.Try again

U.S. Border Patrol officials in Arizona said they have started releasing migrant families from their custody into the streets of Yuma because processing centers can't cope with the large numbers of arriving families and minors.
Community groups in the Yuma area have set up temporary facilities to house the families and to provide food and shelter while they assist migrants with travel plans to leave the border city.
The Border Patrol issued a statement Thursday announcing its decision, which followed the lead of officials in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, who last week began releasing families from their custody.
"U.S. Border Patrol processing centers are not designed to house the current numbers of families and small children that we are encountering," the Border Patrol's Yuma sector said in a written statement. "Due to capacity issues at our stations and the ongoing humanitarian crisis nationwide, Border Patrol has begun identifying detainees for potential release in Yuma with a notice to appear for their immigration hearings."
In a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Carl Landrum, the Yuma sector's deputy chief, explained Border Patrol made the decision as a dramatic surge in migrant families and minors overwhelmed their resources and holding spaces.
According to the latest government statistics, in the first five months of the fiscal year, agents in Yuma have apprehended 17,578 migrants traveling as a family. By contrast, in that same time period last year, they encountered 5,319 migrants.
That's a 330 percent increase and does not include rising numbers of unaccompanied minors and other single-adult migrants.
The sector is on track to apprehend a total of 60,000 migrants, Landrum said.
Those are the highest levels since 2007, when the installation of additional border fencing began to reduce the number of migrants crossing through Yuma.