Illegal ‘Glam’ Migrants in Yuma, Ariz.
The Versace border jumper and the weight limit on migrants’ luggage show our humanitarian instincts are being abused
By Andrew R. Arthur on June 10, 2022
The Washington Times recently detailed findings made by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) after his recent trip to the Southwest border in Yuma, Ariz. There he saw a recently arrived migrant in a Border Patrol processing center wearing a high-end Versace dress, and was told that so many migrants arrive with loads of luggage that Border Patrol had to set a weight limit on the amount they can bring on government vehicles taking them to processing. It all led Lankford to conclude that well-heeled aliens are crossing illicitly “
ecause it’s easier to come in illegally into the country now than it is legally”.
Yuma Sector. The most recent Border Patrol staffing statistics reveal that there were 784 agents in the Border Patrol’s Yuma sector at the end of FY 2020 (it is doubtful the cadre has increased much there in the interim).
Agents work 50-hour weeks, meaning that at any given time there are fewer than 234 of them “on the line” in Yuma sector to cover an area of more than 181,600 square miles — including 126 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Those agents have been plenty busy of late, apprehending more than 177,250 illegal migrants in the first seven months of FY 2022 — a rate of 962 per day. Just 6.4 percent were from just across the border in Mexico, and a mere 4 percent more were from the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Most of the aliens arriving in Yuma sector are “long-distance" illegal migrants.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Illegal-Glam-Migrants-Yuma-Ariz
