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I'm the Mayor of Yuma, Arizona. Trump Is Already Transforming Our Border 
Opinion by Douglas Nicholls • 2h

Being the Mayor of a city can be difficult. Actually, being Mayor is difficult. Being the Mayor of a border city when officials in Washington D.C. don't recognize the glaring border security failure is extremely difficult.

That is the position I have been in for the last four years. I became Mayor of Yuma in 2014. Yuma is located at the intersection of the Arizona, California and Mexico borders. International realities are a part of life in Yuma.
 
The border was relatively quiet—with occasional issues of large groups arriving at the Port of Entry in San Luis—during my first term. The events were brief and would go away as fast as they arose.

Then it all changed in 2019.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-m-the-mayor-of-yuma-arizona-trump-is-already-transforming-our-border-opinion/ar-AA1ye0IM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=37d4beba380e43a9946430548ed70ca9&ei=47
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address