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   https://news.yahoo.com/major-border-city-brink-collapse-070017360.html   
      
   A major border city is on the brink of collapse as the migrant surge under   
   President Biden's leadership overloads food banks and hospitals and   
   threatens food security, a Yuma official told Fox News.   
      
   "Policies need to be changed when you see an unprecedented amount of   
   people coming across the border that even supersedes what we saw under any   
   of the other presidents for the past 30 years," Yuma County Supervisor   
   Jonathan Lines told Fox News. "And they're coming because they said that   
   Biden told them to come, that we have an open border."   
      
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   "It will only get worse with Biden's policies," Lines said. "He needs to   
   reassess."   
      
   Around 5 million migrants have crossed through the southern border into   
   the U.S. since Biden took office, according to Customs and Border   
   Protection. Border Patrol's Yuma sector saw a 171% increase in migrant   
   crossings between 2021 and 2022.   
      
   Meanwhile, 1.2 million illegal migrants have escaped Border Patrol since   
   Biden took office, CBP sources told Fox News on Sunday.   
      
   "The problem that we're foreseeing right now is there's a couple of big   
   waves coming," a Yuma resident and fifth-generation farmer, Hank Auza,   
   told Fox News. "Yuma can't support that. It will overwhelm the system   
   here."   
      
   El Paso, Texas, another border town, declared a state of emergency as   
   thousands of migrants camped in the streets during below-freezing   
   temperatures in December. Many migrant shelters were over capacity,   
   leading the city to use the local airport for temporary refuge.   
      
   BORDER UNDER CONTROL OF CARTELS, NOT THE US, YUMA RESIDENTS SAY AS GANGS   
   RAKE IN BILLIONS OFF HUMAN SMUGGLING   
      
   Lines, Auza and another Yuma farmer, Alex Muller, had shared concerns,   
   starting with the fear around food security, since agricultural production   
   makes up a large part of the town's economy.   
      
   "Our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens,"   
   Muller, said. "You can't have people walking through the field."   
      
   Auza said Yuma's fields, which produce 93% of the nation's leafy greens in   
   the winter months, have faced a fair amount of migrant traffic, risking   
   damage to their crops due to foodborne illness concerns. He also said many   
   residents can't get into the city's only hospital.   
      
   "People have had a hard time getting into the hospital because the   
   hospital has been so full of" illegal immigrants, Auza told Fox News..   
      
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   OF 150,000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS   
      
   In January, Biden made his first-ever border trip to El Paso, Texas, and   
   unveiled border enforcement actions that included Title 42 expulsions for   
   some nationalities. While it was a step in the right direction, Biden   
   needs to enact stricter immigration policies to address all border-related   
   concerns in different areas, Lines told Fox News.   
      
   Yuma migrant influx strains community   
   Migrants flood into Yuma at record-high numbers in the past year, putting   
   strain on the town's resources.   
      
   Lines said Biden administration officials need to visit Yuma to witness   
   the specific challenges their community faces.   
      
   "I've invited them several times, and I would invite them again right   
   now," Lines said. "Please come and see for yourself."   
      
   To hear more from border residents detailing the strain Biden's   
   immigration policies have put on their town, click here.   
      
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