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Wow: Yuma, Arizona Mayor Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ Over Migrant Influx At Border

Josh Hammer

As The Daily Wire has consistently reported, the United States is experiencing a hitherto unseen migrant influx at our beleaguered southern border. The situation, as Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, recently told Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz in an interview, is “unprecedented” and makes for “uncharted waters” for our border and homeland security apparatus. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explained the context of the staggering March border numbers, as part of its press release that accompanied its monthly report:

In Fiscal Year 2019 to date, the U.S. Border Patrol has seen a more than 370% increase in the number of family units apprehended compared to the same time period in FY2018. Today, 60% of apprehensions along the Southwest border are family units and unaccompanied children, made up predominantly of individuals from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

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