Nicholls said officials told him they would release 141 people in Yuma County on Friday. Most migrants are transported to shelters operated by nonprofit organizations farther away from the border, but border officials will release them into communities if enough transportation isn’t available. Mayor Doug Nicholls asked for the federal government to declare a national disaster so Federal Emergency Management Agency resources and National Guard troops could be rushed to his and other small border communities. They crossed the border Wednesday before the rules changed.Īuthorities in the remote desert community of Yuma, Arizona, expressed alarm after the average daily number of migrant arrivals grew this week from 300 to 1,000. Gloria Inigo of Peru said she hoped she, her husband and their daughters, ages 5 and 8, would be next. One woman yelled “Suerte!” or “Good luck!” as those chosen were loaded into a Border Patrol van. When some were selected, those left behind cheered. The hundreds of migrants, mostly families, sat in two dozen rows between the border walls while Border Patrol agents walked by and decided who would be processed. She feared deportation but wanted to stay optimistic. “We never expected all this,” said Rodas, who fled her homeland after her life was threatened. agents took away between 15 and 20 families with children under age 2 who had been among the hundreds sleeping under plastic tarps and blankets. The girls cried all night.Īt about 2 a.m. “I have my children’s birth certificates.”īueno set up camp for the night next to a bridge with about a dozen other men after they charged their cellphones from a connection in the street.ĭiana Rodas, an elementary school teacher from Colombia, spent the night shivering with her two daughters, ages 7 and 13, sleeping on the ground between two towering border walls dividing San Diego and Tijuana. “They didn’t have to split my family,” Bueno insisted.
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