YUMA, Ariz.—Border agents in Yuma are back on patrol after months of being inundated with floods of illegal immigrants that peaked in May.
The illegal traffic in the Yuma sector almost tripled in fiscal 2019 with more than 68,000 aliens apprehended. Agents arrested some 450 people per day in May.
The sector’s two detention facilities—with a combined capacity of 410—were overrun. Vehicle bays became temporary holding facilities as more than 1,100 people had to be crammed in for processing at one point in late April.
In early July, Congress approved a bill to allocate supplemental funds for humanitarian assistance. Yuma was thus able to construct a temporary tent facility to house 500 people and the pressure was alleviated.
Now, due to a combination of the Migrant Protection Protocols, the Mexican National Guard deployment, and new wall construction, Yuma’s numbers have plunged.
Agents in Yuma are currently arresting 30 people on a busy day—a far cry from the 450 a day in May. The detention facility held 70 people on Nov. 27. MORE HERE
BUILD. THE. WALL.
Are the numbers down because of these efforts or because the entire populations of Mexico and Central America are already here?
Just when are we going to see the hordes being shipped back the other way?
Great! I still think Soros teamed up with Catholic Charities to pay the illegals way.
Trump curbed their efforts.
I kind of hope this ticks off leftists so much they hold more hearings and the Republicans invite Tom Homan in again. Just to see him go at the Dimms again.
Processing? That means sitting them down in front of an agent and making sure the information on their new EBT and voter ID’s is correct.
Funny how the Left won’t allow asylums to be built for the bums, freeloaders, druggies and the mentally ill fouling the streets of San Fransisco, LA and Seattle… not to mention all the other democRAT-run, big city shit-holes they’ve cultivated over the past half century!
Damn, I like winning.