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To Rich Calder

May 13, 2023 | 9:51 AM

Border city officials in Yuma, Arizona, have released about 300 unprocessed immigrants who recently entered the United States.

With the pandemic-era Title 42 expiration date looming Thursday night, making it difficult to enter the country, this is an indication of how hectic Customs and Border Protection facilities are coping with the surge in inbound arrivals. The latest example to show.

On Friday, three white buses carrying 141 migrants were seen entering the Yuma Public Safety Training Facility near the city’s airport and dropping off migrants near a holding area. daily mail report. He was then scheduled to be taken to Phoenix by bus.

This followed the release of about 140 people at another site in Yuma and nearby San Luis earlier Friday as well.

Migrants are rushing into the mainland United States, many simply being let in for immigration processing, and hundreds of illegal border crossers have offered amnesty. The border guard said on Wednesday that 28,000 people were being detained after an order was issued by Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz to begin releasing the mass.

Yuma Mayor Douglas Nichols warned residents on Thursday that Border Patrol was planning to release immigrants who hadn’t received full processing, but insisted they were “scrutinized,” telling people to keep calm. I called to become He claimed the released immigrant had no criminal record.

“These people are under scrutiny, at least to the point where Border Patrol has issued notices to show up for paperwork wherever they live in the country,” the mayor said, according to the Daily Mail.

“They are supposed to follow up through the judicial process. Unfortunately, that whole process takes three to seven years to complete.”

Yuma County Superintendent Jonathan Lines said the dumping of immigrants was “another failure of the Biden administration to manage the problems it created with its open-border policy.”