Conditions along the southwest border have deteriorated significantly under President Joe Biden, with 377 cases of human smuggling and trafficking in the last two years in a county in Arizona, about an hour’s drive from Mexico. % increase, with a shocking 610% increase in fentanyl. Pills seized by local law enforcement officers. In Mexico, near the southern border of the small Arizona town just a stone’s throw from Los Algodones, three times as many people as him entered the municipality illegally last year, overwhelming the city’s only hospital. .

The Pinal County Sheriff and director of the Yuma Regional Medical Center provided chilling information this week. congressional hearings Since Biden took office, the focus has been on immigration. The session, held by the House Homeland Security Committee, comes days after the country heard alarming testimony from the head of the Border Patrol division during another meeting. meeting It was held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. At that hearing, Rio Grande Valley chief Gloria Chavez said the cartels were using drones to track federal agents, and that her Texas sector alone could kill her 10,000 cases a year. more than 25,000 drone sightings have occurred. “The adversary has 17 times her number of drones, twice her flight time, and unlimited funds to expand its operations,” Chavez told lawmakers. Tucson sector chief John Modlin said the border crisis has progressed “from what I would describe as unprecedented to where we don’t have the right adjective.” seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl. This he has well over 3 million tablets.

America’s border towns are ravaged by the illegal immigration crisis, and the problem is spilling over into remote areas where the types of activity associated with border crime are not normally seen. Dr. Robert Trenchel, Yuma Regional Medical Center said before congressional hearings this week that his facility was overwhelmed. “Yuma has only 100,000 people, but in one year he crossed 300,000 people. We’re the only hospital they go to,” he says. “So they came to us, and it had a huge and disproportionate impact on our hospital.” He testified that he had a serious illness that required costly treatment. “A lot of people are very sick,” he said. “They have long-term complications of chronic illness that go untreated. Some spend more than 60 days in the ICU. or no obstetric patients at all.These high-risk pregnancies and deliveries lead to higher morbidity rates and longer hospital stays.Because of the lack of prenatal care, many of these babies need to stay in the neonatal intensive care unit, some for more than a month at a time.” Of course, American taxpayers pay high medical bills.

Farther from the Mexican border in Pinal County in central Arizona, the region’s chief law enforcement officer said the high rate of drug and people smuggling that plagues the United States is being pushed into his jurisdiction en route to Phoenix and other countries. Elected Sheriff Mark Lamb said there had been a 377% increase in smuggling/human trafficking incidents and a 461% increase in smuggling-related vehicle tracking in his county over the past two years. I testified. “If what’s being trafficked isn’t trafficking, it’s drugs,” Lam said. “Since 2020, the number of fentanyl pills seized by my agents via the same route has increased by 610%.” “They’re adult military men in camouflage clothes, carpet shoes, rucksacks, and often drugs,” he told lawmakers. Ram said. “They have been escaping border guards by walking through the desert for days, but they are not going to give up. Their goal is to enter our country illegally without being noticed.”

During the lengthy hearing, the sheriff also expressed frustration at the media and the Biden administration’s false claim that there was no danger to the southern border and that the area was safe. Our statistics tell a different story,” Lam said. “And the story is that the border is not safe.”