Open floodgates at Arizona border allow thousands of migrants to walk into the country

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Open floodgates at Arizona border allow thousands of migrants to walk into the country
By MaryAnn Martinez and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
August 21, 2023 1:15pm  Updated
 
The door to America is wide open.

Thousands of migrants are flowing across the US border in Arizona every day — literally through open floodgates that have made the Tucson post the busiest point of illegal entry into the country, The Post has learned.

US officials have inexplicably welded open 114 massive gates along the Arizona border to allow water to flow freely during the annual monsoon season and for the migration of an endangered species of antelope, officials said.

But the move is also letting an average of 1,400 migrants from as far away as China casually walk into the country daily — with overwhelmed and outnumbered border agents practically helpless to stop them.

“We thought the agents were going to tell us something,” one Ecuadorean migrant said. “But we just walked in.”

https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/arizona-borders-open-floodgates-allow-thousands-into-us/

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Border Patrol admits it’s responsible for open floodgates in Arizona border wall
By MaryAnn Martinez
August 22, 2023 6:38pm  Updated
 
The US Border Patrol has now admitted it’s responsible for the decision to leave giant flood gates in the border wall wide open — giving thousands of illegal immigrants an easy opportunity to stream into Arizona.

After some initial finger-pointing at other federal agencies, the agency took ownership for making the call.

“USBP makes the final decision on opening gates based on operational conditions and forecasted weather,” the agency said a statement to The Post.

Cartels are exploiting the situation, dropping off migrants by the busload so they can casually walk into the US through the open doors and hand themselves over to border agents, as The Post witnessed firsthand west of remote Lukeville, Ariz., last weekend.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/border-patrol-admits-its-responsible-for-open-floodgates-in-arizona-border-wall/