We pointed out recently that, with the shortage of shelters along the border, illegal migrants who make it across the border into California have taken to unauthorized camping in the desert as they await over-stressed Border Patrol officials to arrange their transportation elsewhere into the U.S. Now we hear from Breitbart News that the same is happening in the Arizona desert.
On Saturday, reporters from Breitbart Texas visited such a makeshift camp near the hamlet of Lukeville, Arizona (population: 35). There they found nearly 1,000 illegal migrants from all over the world, including Pakistan, the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Ecuador, and several West African nations. Lacking bathroom facilities, the migrants are using the adjacent Organ Pipe National Monument reserve to relieve themselves. And to build fires against the frigid desert nights, they are stripping the reserve of anything that would burn. A hundred miles away, in the Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation, hundreds more illegals were doing the same, as they waited for Border Patrol officials to arrange transportatioon into the lower 48.
The numbers of illegal migrants flooding into the Tucson Border Patrol Sector, which includes both sites, are stunning. More than 119,000 migrants came across in the sector during October and November. Overall, in November alone, nearly 190,000 migrants entered the United States illegally. It would be hard to imagine a more egregious dereliction of duty than what the Biden administration is guilty of, all the while insisting the border is “secure.”
For more, see Breitbart News.