Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator
One Border Patrol sector expects to spend around four times as much on basic necessities as more illegal family units descend on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border Patrols Yuma Sector spent $300,000 on food, formula, diapers and basic medical care in fiscal year 2018, the Washington Examiner reported Monday. In an indication of how much more agents are forced to spend to care for illegal migrants in its custody, agents in the Yuma Sector have already spent $600,000 on those very same services and items for the current fiscal year — and its only halfway over.
The Yuma Sector expects to dole out $1.2 million, four times as much as 2018, by the end of the 2019 fiscal year. The precipitous rise in costs comes after agents caught 25,000 illegal migrants traveling in family units through southwestern Arizona in the past six months.
“We only have one hospital, and thats to serve the whole community, which is the whole Yuma County,” Yuma Border Patrol agent Justin Kallinger told the Washington Examiner. “We have snowbird season — our population goes from 100,000 to 200,000. It doubles. Most of that age group still needs medical attention quite a bit. Our ERs [emergency rooms] are stacked already before we start with the illegal aliens we have to take to the hospital.”
Law enforcement agents working across the entire U.S.-Mexico border have seen a monumental uptick in illegal migrants in the past year.
Central American migrants heading to the US walk in caravan along the route between Metapa and Tapachula in Mexico on April 12, 2019. – A group of 350 Central American migrants forced their way into Mexico Friday, authorities said, as a new caravan of around 2,500 people arrived — news sure to draw the attention of US President Donald Trump. Mexicos National Migration Institute said some members of the caravan had a “hostile attitude” and had attacked local police in the southern town of Metapa de Dominguez after crossing the border from Guatemala. (Photo by Pep COMPANYS / AFP/Getty Images)
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced its agents have made 418,000 apprehensions this fiscal year to date, a number that already surpasses the 404,142 nationwide apprehensions seen in the entire 2018 fiscal year. A vast majority of the captures are taking place on the southwestern border. (RELATED: FBI Arrested Head Of Armed Militia Group That Patrolled The Border, Apprehended Illegals)
Yuma, one of nine Border Patrol sectors on the southern border, has been hit esRead More – Source
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