People living outside San Diego near the US-Mexico border say their property is invaded every night by migrants, who cut down their trees for firewood and camp on their land with impunity — and that neither federal nor local authorities are doing anything to help
Brian Silvas, who lives on 78 acres of land on the southern border about 75 miles east of San Diego, told CNN that large groups of immigrants invade his land every day. In fact, seeing dozens or hundreds of strangers has become so common that the Silvas’ three dogs, Whiskey, Soldier and Freedom, don’t bark at them anymore.
“This country was built on immigration. I’m fine with that,” Silvas, a self-described conservative, told the news outlet. “But not like this. This doesn’t make sense.”
The disgruntled property owner said the flood of migrants crossing from Mexico had increased since the expiration in May of Title 42 – the COVID-era emergency health authority that allowed US officials to turn away migrants at the border on the grounds of preventing the spread of the epidemic. viruses.
San Diego-area residents say migrants pass through their properties almost every night. Reuters
Since then, the Biden administration has struggled to prevent massive caravans of migrants from entering the US.
Jerry and Maria Shuster, who have lived in Jacumba Hot Springs, about 5 miles east of the Silvas’ property along the border, for 40 years, told CNN that immigrants coming from Mexico have used their 17-acre property as a campground. temporarily — and leaving behind tents, scraps of clothing and piles of trash.
Jerry Shuster, who is an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia, said the new immigrants had cut down all his trees and dismantled his fence to use as firewood to keep warm at night.
His wife, Maria, who was born in Mexico, said she wanted the government to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
Migrants reportedly built campsites and built fires to stay warm on private land near the southern border. AFP via Getty Images An area homeowner says US Customs and Border Protection agents have turned into Uber drivers for immigrants. DINNER ALLISON/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
“Stop because [the migrants are not] help us; they destroyed us,” he lamented.
There were more than 230,000 encounters in the San Diego Border Patrol Sector during the fiscal year that ended in September — the highest number in more than 20 years.
But witnesses say they have seen a change in the behavior of immigrants lately: If they used to run away from CBP agents after crossing the border illegally, now they run toward them so they can be processed and then let them go to wait for them. a day in court, which can take years.
The San Diego Border Sector recorded 230,000 encounters with immigrants in the fiscal year that ended in September. AP
Also, unlike before, new immigrants are not limited to native Mexicans and South American countries: Officials have documented encounters with immigrants from more than 40 countries, including China and Uzbekistan.
Silvas said Border Patrol agents have turned into Uber drivers for migrants, transporting them from the border to a transit hub in San Diego, from where they spread to other parts of the US.
“Immigrants have more rights than we do,” said Maria Shuster, claiming that federal authorities and local sheriff’s departments have told her they can’t remove hordes of foreigners from their property.
The migrant crisis along the southern border has worsened. In November alone, CBP recorded 242,418 encounters — and December is on track to reach a record high, having surpassed 200,000 encounters, with 10,000 migrants arriving each day.
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