United States' Busiest Border Crossing is CLOSED to Legal Traffic After Coyotes Overwhelmed Arizona Hot Spot With Illegal Migrants-- forcing overwhelmed agents to scramble
The
border crisis has a new victim-- US citizens who live near the border and legally cross from the US to
Mexico on a regular basis.
With a surge of migrants illegally flooding into the US west of Lukeville,
Arizona, US border officials have shut down the port of entry in town to legitimate traffic.
The Tucson area, which Lukeville is part of, has seen
17,500 encounters in a single week-- the highest weekly total ever recorded.
As thousands of migrants from around the world illegally slip into the nation by simply squeezing through openings in the border wall, federal agents at the port of entry have been sent to help understaffed Border Patrol officers handle the surge of unauthorized migrants.
The port of entry has been closed-- a move that will cost businesses in Arizona thousands of dollars a day as legal crossers scramble to figure out how they will get to work and school on either the US or Mexican side.
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Migrants wait to be processed and transported at a Border Patrol temporary processing center near Lukeville, Arizona, U.S. on December 12, 2023
'For far too long, Arizona communities have paid the price for Washington’s failures on the border,' Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly said in a
joint statement Tuesday.
A surge of migrants illegally crossing into the US near Lukeville, Arizona has forced US border officials to shut down the port of entry in Lukeville to commercial and legal traffic.
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