Posted on 03/01/2021 5:08:43 PM PST by lowbridge
While the number of people being released in Yuma is small and growing, Nicholls said it should be considered in light of the size of the town. Yuma does not have a single nonprofit organization that focuses on migrants, and its shelters are already near capacity with homeless residents, the mayor said.
“Groups will show up at a church or nonprofit. And the church or nonprofit are not necessarily ready to assist. And so, it causes a bit of chaos," he said.
Nicholls is worried because he expects the number of people being released to spike, as was the case two years ago. Amid the 2019 humanitarian crisis, the city declared a state of emergency as more than 5,700 migrants were released by Border Patrol, overwhelming the city’s shelters, hospitals, and transportation networks. The city had 300 beds available in shelters and could not keep up with the number of people released into the community each day. The difference now is that the U.S. is still in a pandemic, making holding people more difficult. On top of that, the Biden administration has not revealed if it will test migrants before releasing people from custody, risking the community’s health.
Normally, families apprehended in Yuma are to be transported by Border Patrol 185 miles away to ICE’s family holding center in Phoenix. Nicholls said Border Patrol does not have the transportation resources to keep driving migrants through the desert to Phoenix.
Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that oversees the Border Patrol, said in a statement that due to a steady increase in illegal immigration over the past 10 months, Border Patrol facilities are reaching capacity and releasing people instead of transferring them to ICE.
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Maybe those folks in Maricopa County can go defend the country.
Dc versus the American people.
Again.
Give them each an innertube and let them float south. They will be home in half an hour.
Yep they don’t care
Anything to score political points by putting Americans last
Right back to the policies of the four Presidents that preceded President Trump.
They are literally stealing our country with the bipartisan policy of open borders
I’m sure they were all keeping six feet apart and wearing masks.
Put them on buses to Delaware or DC
Exactly - if I lived there I’d happily sponsor a chartered bus or two to get them to DC.
“They are literally stealing our country with the bipartisan policy of open borders”
They don’t need open borders to steal anything. Please refer to the last
election.
Citizens need to start making citizens arrests of these criminal trespassing vermin...
bookmark
Yuma is the county seat of Yuma County. Maricopa County is the next one over.
Some of my family lives there. Great Mexican food and hot as hell.
Released? Why bother to detain them at all?
I’ve been to Yuma. I didn’t eat Mexican food or Mexicans there. I have a vague recollection that there is a Cracker Barrel. lol
It is hot.
You’d think our military there would scare away the invaders. But I was being a smarty-pants about Maricopa County folks because they are outlaws hiding their ballots and ballot boxes for some unknown reason. If they’re on the up and up, then what will it hurt to let someone take a peek???
Bus them to Pelosi’s house. She has room.
Well,
You asked for it,
You got it....
There’s something more going on here than we think 🤔
Why not give them food over in Mexico? Food and water. in Mexico. Nothing here.
What about small town vigilantes deporting them?
Criminal democrat party government in action.
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