A Yuma county supervisor shared his town's battle to accommodate the influx of migrants amid caring for residents as border crossings increase in Arizona.
crossed residential properties and farmland in Yuma, Lines told Fox News. He said they created safety concerns, strained resources and hurt crops in the agriculture-heavy city.
"We had people showing up to our … non-governmental organizations, the food bank, the mission asking for assistance," Lines said."We had people showing up directly to the churches looking for assistance." Some residents couldn't receive medical assistance as migrants crowded the local hospital, Lines said.
"I've received calls from people saying, ‘hey, I had to take my wife to San Diego to deliver a baby,’" Lines told Fox News."'I had to take my wife to Phoenix to deliver the baby because there were no more beds at this hospital.'" Yuma, an agricultural community, faced threats to their food production as migrants damaged crops while crossing through farmland along the southern border.
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