Biden’s Open Borders Policy Pushes Yuma, Arizona to the Brink of Collapse!

Written by Steve Cannon for USSA News.

President Brain-Dead Biden’s open border policy is causing the city of Yuma, Arizona to reach the brink of collapse. According to New American magazine contributor David Kelly, thousands of illegal aliens cross the nearby border every week. The U.S. Border Patrol for the sector has reportedly seen a 171 percent increase in illegal immigrants crossing the border between 2021 and 2022. Yuma is in the Number 3 spot for illegal immigrant apprehensions, following the cities of El Paso and Del Rio in Texas.

Impact on Yuma Residents

Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told Fox News in an interview: “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. [The illegals are] coming because they said that Biden told them to come, that we have an open border.”

Yuma farmer Hank Auza also expressed concerns about the illegal aliens possibly passing on foodborne pathogens on their crops. The seat of Arizona’s Yuma County produces 93 percent of America’s leafy greens during the winter months, and the amount of illegal aliens entering could undermine food safety.

Alex Muller, another Yuma farmer, shared Auza’s sentiments. “Our fields are monitored, audited and tested for different pathogens. You can’t have people walking through the field,” he emphasized.

Worse, Auza mentioned that many Yuma residents cannot get into the city’s only hospital. “People have a hard time getting into the hospital because it has been so full of [illegal aliens],” he recounted.

The county supervisor ultimately warned that things “will only get worse with Biden’s policies,” and called on the president to “reassess” his stance.

Lawmakers not Seeing the Full Extent of the Border Crisis

Lines also exhorted officials of the Biden administration to visit Yuma in order to witness the specific challenges faced by the city. “I’ve invited them several times, and I would invite them again right now. Please come and see for yourself,” he said.

Members of Congress who recently visited Yuma did not see the truth about the border crisis, only the “sanitized version” of it. Earlier in January, a bipartisan delegation from Washington, D.C. led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) visited the city. But Lines lamented that the senators saw little to understand the full extent of Yuma’s problem with illegal aliens.

“After the visit, border crossings had dropped to almost nothing amid tighter activity on the Mexican side,” the county supervisor said. “[Meanwhile,] discarded shoes, medicine bottles and other evidence of illegal crossings had been removed from along the U.S. side.”

“Everything’s been 100 percent 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.”

Lines also pointed out that unannounced delegations that visit Yuma, not the publicized ones such as that of Sinema and Cornyn, “always see the real border challenge.”