Yuma County prepares for the end of Title 42
There's frustration coming from local lawmakers as they say it feels like the federal government is relying on them to solve the local border crisis.
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There's frustration coming from local lawmakers as they say it feels like the federal government is relying on them to solve the local border crisis.
“It’s a fact-finding mission, to find out what the challenges are specifically and how to address them,” County Supervisor Jonathan Lines said.
With fields of leafy greens just feet away from the US-Mexico border. Farmers say the Yuma economy and North America’s food security are at risk.
The number of migrants arriving at a key stretch of Arizona border has surged by at least 30 percent in just the past week, according to a local official, with people drawn by the looming end of Title 42.
Arizona is being asked to remove the over 120 shipping containers it placed to fill some of Yuma's wall gaps in August.