For Star subscribers: Arizona spent $6 million erecting a border barrier on federal land without permission that is unlikely to stop undocumented migrants from entering the country because it's north of the actual international border.
Danyelle Khmara Arizona spent $6 million erecting a border barrier on federal land without permission that is unlikely to stop undocumented migrants from entering the country because it's north of the actual international border.
People are also reading… The Bureau of Reclamation has reached out to Arizona’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to discuss this issue, said regional spokesperson for the agency Michelle Helms. The problem with the state building a physical barrier on the border is that the southern border in Arizona is all federal land. After passing the budget, a state official said the barrier would be more of a “virtual barrier,” which could include motion sensors, infrared cameras, mobile towers and aerial drones, as well as barriers around critical infrastructure, which could include things like canals, wastewater treatment plants and defense installations.
Yuma wall not on the borderThe reason filling those gaps won’t stop people from entering the country is because they are not on the actual border. The border wall in Yuma veers off the border in some places because of waterways like the Colorado River, which runs upstream from the Morelos Dam, a popular border crossing point. Once people are on U.S. soil, Border Patrol has to process them, regardless of what side of the barrier they are on.
Just like those migrants who are not impeded by a barrier, some get sent back to Mexico under public health policy Title 42, but most are processed and sent to local nonprofit organizations, which help them get to their sponsors all over the country. Even with the gaps closed, people will just find other areas to come through, but having those high-traffic gaps closed will better allow Border Patrol to prioritize, Clem said. One part of the border in Yuma that doesn’t have a barrier is on the Cocopah Reservation, where the tribe has said they don’t want a border wall.
The number of encounters Border Patrol agents have had with people crossing the border in the Yuma Sector has increased from 7,385 by the end of July in fiscal year 2020 to 259,895 by the end of July this fiscal year.
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