Behind The Border 'Crisis': More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote Crossings

[steve from amherst]

In a desolate stretch of desert outside Yuma, Ariz., there's a spot where more than 350 migrants, including children, burrowed under the steel border fence a few weeks ago.

"This only goes down just about probably another foot, this steel," said Anthony Porvaznik, chief patrol agent for the Yuma sector of the Border Patrol. He says smugglers tried digging in more than a dozen spots, looking for places where the ground was soft enough.

"This is very sandy," Porvaznik said. "It's like that all the way down, and so it was easy to dig."

About once a week, Border Patrol agents come across migrant groups of 100 people or more in some of the most isolated parts of the Southwest border. In Arizona, the number of migrant families and children crossing the border more than doubled last year, straining resources in the U.S. and Mexico.

The White House says the situation is evidence of a broader crisis at the Southern border. On Friday, President Trump declared a national emergency to free up billions of dollars to expand the border wall. The administration wants a total of about $8 billion, including the $1.4 billion in the funding bill passed by Congress, for border wall construction.

[Dave]

Many more sneaking across to the east of Yuma....crazy rough country there....at least it hasnt been hot....would not want to break down out there alone....although they do have emergency areas out in the middle of nowhere where you can contact BP and they will be there within the hr apparently. 

[steve from amherst]

do you ride thru the desert running down water bottles left for crossers?

[Dave]

1 hour ago, steve from amherst said:

do you ride thru the desert running down water bottles left for crossers?

Ill start looking now that you mentioned it....but liberals being great pig pussies i cant see one setting foot anywhere near where we ride.