Staff Reports
In a chaotic scramble, Pima County, Arizona, and the city of Tucson are desperately searching for a place to house illegal immigrants as Biden’s border crisis continues to wreak havoc on American border states. Federal funding for this crisis is coming to an end, leaving local officials in a panic.
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Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has been “sounding the alarm,” expressing the urgency of developing plans to accommodate the expected flood of illegal immigrants before they arrive. The looming wave of Biden’s illegal immigrants, set to be released at the end of March by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, has officials sweating bullets as they try to cope with the mass influx.
To tackle this overwhelming dilemma, officials are kicking around the idea of busing illegal border crossers to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in South Tucson. Additionally, Romero proposed the option of sending them to Phoenix as federal funding is projected to run dry in late March.
The pressure on resources is evident as Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher lamented that Biden’s border crisis is diverting money away from the city and its residents, ultimately stretching the county’s budget thin. Lesher highlighted the immense strain on their financial resources, with the county shelling out a whopping million dollars a month to house, feed, and care for the migrant population, which is rapidly approaching 1,000 new border crossers daily.
Biden’s border crisis is not contained within Arizona’s borders, and the repercussions are rippling across the country. San Diego, too, is reeling from the strain of housing the influx of illegal immigrants. Republican mayor Bill Wells of El Cajon, California, disclosed that the city has seen an influx of 100,000 migrants crossing the San Diego border in recent months, depleting funds intended for taxpayers. The financial burden of accommodating the migrants has left the city in dire straits.
Conversely, the federal government seems to have no qualms about squandering tax dollars to accommodate the influx of illegal aliens, spending exorbitant amounts, up to $8,000 per person monthly, for lodging. This reckless exorbitance in the face of a burgeoning crisis has further exacerbated the situation, wreaking havoc on neighborhoods and straining security infrastructure.
The numbers are staggering, with nearly 7.3 million illegal aliens crossing the southern border since Biden took office, and an alarming 1.17 million “got aways” slipping through the border over the last three years. The dire circumstances facing border states are causing mayhem, and the urgency to address the crisis is mounting with little relief in sight. The impact of Biden’s border crisis is growing more dire by the day, and its ramifications are felt not just in Arizona, but across the country.
