Seven people are rushed to hospital after shooting near US-Mexico border in Arizona
- Yuma Police Department are still trying to track down a suspect
- The shooting occurred on South J. Edward Drive just before 11pm on Saturday
Seven people have been rushed to hospital after a shooting near the US-Mexico border in Arizona.
Cops were called to South J. Edward Drive in Yuma, Arizona, just before 11pm on Saturday night. They found several people injured at the gathering.
Yuma Police Department are still trying to track down a suspect, but believe there is no wider threat to the community.
This comes just days after 300 unprocessed migrants, who had arrived at the border city, were released by officials.
It’s unclear if the shooting is linked to the recent migrant crossings.
The release of the hundreds of migrants coincided with the end of Title 42, and the lifting of a Trump-era restriction designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The result was that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had been holding as many as 28,000 migrants at its facilities, far beyond its capacity, according to a local official.
The shooting, which happened at a gathering, occurred on South J. Edward Drive in Yuma, Arizona
Yuma Police Department are still trying to track down a suspect, but believe there is no wider threat to the community
Immigrants speak to U.S. Border Patrol agents in the early morning hours after crossing into Arizona from Mexico on May 10, 2023 in Yuma, Arizona
On Thursday, the mayor of Yuma announced that CBP was planning releases in the city of migrants who had not undergone full processing, although he insisted they had been ‘vetted.’
On Friday afternoon, three white buses with blacked out windows pulled into the Yuma Public Safety Training Facility close to the city’s airport.
The location was a closely held secret, but DailyMail.com was on hand to witness the release. A briefing document said 141 were being freed.
Streams of people could be seen climbing out of the buses and being directed to a shaded holding area, where there was at least some shelter from 96F temperatures.
From there, it is understood they will be put on buses to take them to Phoenix.
On Friday afternoon, three white buses with blacked out windows pulled into the Yuma Public Safety Training Facility close to the city’s airport
Migrants were seen boarding buses in Yuma, Arizona and coincided with the end of Title 42, and the lifting of a Trump-era restriction designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Almost 300 newly arrived migrants were released by officials in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday illustrating how border cities are struggling to cope with a huge surge
It followed a similar release of about 140 people at a separate location in Yuma and at nearby San Luis in the morning.
Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines said the process was an admission that federal authorities simply could not cope.
‘This is decompressing and the federal govt is relying on the local and state government to do its job,’ he said.
‘It’s another failure of the Biden Administration to manage a problem they created with their open border policy.’
A day earlier, Mayor Douglas Nicholls urged the people of Yuma to stay calm.
‘These are people that have been vetted to at least to the point where Border Patrol has issued them notice to appear papers wherever they end up living in the country,’ he said.
‘They are to follow up through the judicial process. Unfortunately, that process is years three to seven years to get through that whole process.’
