I have summed this up in my emergency proclamations, which I believe is President Trump's approach: This is a federal issue, not a local issue. We need a federal response, not a local response.
"Being the Mayor of a city can be difficult. Actually, being Mayor is difficult. Being the Mayor of a border city when officials in Washington D.C. don't recognize the glaring border security failure is extremely difficult.
"That is the position I have been in for the last four years. I became Mayor of Yuma in 2014. Yuma is located at the intersection of the Arizona, California and Mexico borders. International realities are a part of life in Yuma.
"The border was relatively quiet—with occasional issues of large groups arriving at the Port of Entry in San Luis—during my first term. The events were brief and would go away as fast as they arose.
"Then it all changed in 2019.
"Caravans of hundreds of migrants began crossing the border illegally. U.S. Border Patrol quickly exceeded capacity and were forced by the Flores Settlement Agreement to release these migrants with children within 72 hours into the streets of Yuma.
"Upon receiving the first notice of these releases, I proclaimed a local State of Emergency. When the Trump Administration heard, their Intergovernmental Affairs Department called to invite me to speak with President Trump in the Oval Office."...
. . ."I had meetings with DHS officials including Secretary Mayorkas, yet no change in policies. I was simply told that the border was secure." . . .
. . ."I had meetings with DHS officials including Secretary Mayorkas, yet no change in policies. I was simply told that the border was secure.
"We had a peak of 1,500 migrants crossing the border illegally in one day, and there was still no effective federal response. Three and a half years into the Biden Administration, there was finally a new policy shift that had some minor impact—too little, too late." . . .
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