January 11, 2019

Yuma Sector Sees Influx in Families Crossing Illegally

We also hear from asylum seekers camped outside the port of entry in San Luis, Mexico.

As the partial government shutdown stretched into its third week, Arizona 360 offered a closer look at the issue at the center of the stalemate on Capitol Hill: border security and immigration. A few days before the shutdown began, Lorraine Rivera traveled to San Luis, Arizona, and witnessed families from Central America crossing the border illegally to seek asylum, as well as asylum seekers who set up camps just outside the port of entry in San Luis, Mexico, to make formal requests with Customs and Border Protection.

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