Yuma Border Sector Chief: Number of People, Variety of Countries Now Coming to Border ‘Is Posing a Challenge’

During a portion of an interview with CNN aired on Friday’s edition of “The Lead,” Yuma Border Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem stated that, previously, the Border Patrol dealt with people from Mexico and other countries in Central America who could be processed and put in removal proceedings and/or returned to Mexico. But now, there are people from so many different countries who are flying in and coming to the border and have to be processed and there are “so many of them that it is posing a challenge to the workforce.”

Clem said, “We were having [people] from Mexico, Central America, things that we could process and take their biometric data and put them in removal proceedings and/or return them back to Mexico. The countries we’re receiving now, those nationalities, are flying in, arriving to the border, and they’re having to be processed. And there are just so many of them that it is posing a challenge to the workforce.”

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