Opinion: Migrants Abandoned in Yuma
Photo by Donald Giannatti
By Kyler Van Vliet
Custom and Border Protection holding facilities have been at maximum capacity since April of last year and now migrants are being released into Yuma County.
Due to a rise in border apprehensions combined with social distancing guidelines that don't allow for as many people to be held in one particular space, CBP has released a group of 20 people into the neighboring community of San Luis. Several more similarly sized groups were let out in subsequent days.
Yuma County is not new to sheltering released migrants. Two years ago, Yuma saw the release of 5,700 migrants into the county of about 215,000 people over a three-month period.
Two years ago however, there was a non-profit shelter for people to stay at. That sole temporary shelter in the ar...