The self-proclaimed “sunniest city on Earth,” Yuma, Arizona, is reaching its breaking point due to the overwhelming number of illegal immigrants crossing the nearby border and overloading hospitals and food banks. The once-winter paradise is now nothing more than just another major “hotspot” point of entry for thousands of illegals coming into the United States.
Medical facilities in the area are being pushed to the brink of collapse due to the increasing number of illegal immigrants, with residents reportedly unable to access the only hospital in the city. Yuma has a population of 100,000. The city sees thousands of illegal aliens crossing its border every week, including “gotaways.” It currently ranks third in illegal-immigrant apprehensions, behind El Paso and Del Rio, Texas. Yuma County’s Border Patrol reportedly has seen a 171-percent increase in migrant crossings between 2021 and 2022.
The border crisis, or what some have called an invasion, is due to President Biden’s lack of any meaningful enforcement of immigration laws and the creation of his new immigration parole system. His policies are an open invitation for illegals to cross into the United States at all costs, to gain what many hope to be a new start for their families. But in reality, Biden’s immigration policies have only caused stress on border communities and legal citizens all along the southern border.
“Policies need to be changed when you see an unprecedented amount of people coming across the border that even supersedes what we saw under any of the other presidents for the past 30 years,” Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told Fox News. “And they’re coming because they said that Biden told them to come, that we have an open border.”
Many of the illegal aliens have chosen Yuma as their gateway into America because of the relative ease of crossing the border. The Daily Mail shared that, “according to Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, there are 50 breaks in the border wall along the 126-mile Yuma sector, including the infamous ‘Gap’.” Nicholls added, “Huge container-sized gaps in the 30ft border wall allow migrants to walk right through, aided by a thinly-spread Border Patrol. However, construction is currently underway to fill some of the gaps.”
In addition to the strain on hospitals and support services, Yuma’s agriculture community is at risk as many illegal immigrants are walking across fields, potentially destroying farmers’ crops and hurting the local economy.
“Yuma is the winter lettuce capital of the US due to its famed all-year-round sun. It produces 93 percent of the country’s lettuce during the winter months,” said the Daily Mail. Local farmer Alex Muller told Fox News, “Our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens. You can’t have people walking through the field.”
Lines has repeatedly called on the Biden administration to act to relieve the pressure on border counties, and to visit Yuma to witness the strain that has been placed on the community.
The Daily Mail reported that earlier this month, a bipartisan group from Washington, D.C., led by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), visited Yuma. What they saw was not the border crisis in action, but a “sanitized” version of the border crisis.
Lines stated, “After the visit … border crossings had dropped to almost nothing amid tighter activity on the Mexican side, while discarded shoes, medicine bottles and other evidence of illegal crossings had been removed from along the US side.”
“Everything’s been 100% sanitized here as well. Even more so than they’ve ever done before. And we’re actually not even seeing people coming across the border right now,” he 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 publicized ones.”
Yuma wasn’t the only recently “sanitized” border city that was staged to downplay the border crisis for visiting elected officials. When Biden stopped in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott handed him a letter accusing his administration of cleaning up El Paso prior to his visit.
Abbott wrote, “Your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies. Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis. This chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted.”
The narrative the federal government seems to want us and the media to follow in regard to the mass of illegals crossing our southern border is nothing more than an illusion and a facade hiding the ugly truth that the border communities are being overrun.
Supervisor Lines clearly understands the sanitization process: “It’s a lie. They’re misrepresenting what’s actually happening at the border. Every single time there’s a high-profile visit, this is par for the course, so that people never get to see what it looks like.”
President Biden and his administration have no desire to secure the southern border; that has been proven time and time again. Border cities such as Yuma will have to continue to stand tall and do what they can to survive the invasion, while Biden watches from afar, willfully ignoring his sworn duty to protect our borders and sovereignty.
