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Andy Biggs: Yes, I will speak to that for just a second. A couple weeks ago now, I took a group of people to Lukeville, Arizona.…

On the recordJanuary 11, 2024
Yes, I will speak to that for just a second. A couple weeks ago now, I took a group of people to Lukeville, Arizona. Now, Lukeville is an incredibly remote port of entry, 35 people or so live by there. You come through Ajo, if you are coming from Phoenix or Tucson, and you are going to go to Rocky Point down in Mexico, it is very heavy traffic. Well, they actually had to close that port of entry. Why? Because the number of people pouring through, cutting holes in the fences, and we had to bring these people--we are talking multiple thousands a day, multiple thousands a day, 30,000 people in the last couple weeks, right? Think about that. What do they do? All they could do is take the personnel that they have, and they start working the line, right? No, they don't. They actually start transporting them to an off-the-border facility, a soft- sided facility kind of like the one you saw except smaller for the first wait, because it is so remote, it literally takes hours to get to a soft-sided facility in Tucson, Arizona. They will go there, and they will spend a few hours, maybe a day or two before they are distributed. What happens? When I was there, I thought, oh, man, we missed the flood because we got there a little late in the morning. I went and talked to these people. I said: Where are you from? Guinea, Burkina Faso, Senegal, India, Pakistan, a few from Guatemala. Where are you going? You know what they do? They look around, they find a paper, it is a laminated card.…
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Jan 11, 2024

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