Health and municipal leaders in southern Arizona appeared before Congress this week to talk about how their communities are responding to the increase in migrants and asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.The hearing was before the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, which is chaired by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
can be. 7 migrants trapped inside of flipped suv, total of 17 migrants discovered in the area after the rather stunning crash. also new this afternoon, illegal chinese immigrants surrendering to the u.s. today, crews embedded with texas dps near la joya, texas outside of mcallen when the chinese migrants turned themselves in. it s not just mexicans or people from south america that are illegally crossing the border here. aishah. aishah: thanks for the update, we appreciate it. griff: aishah and matt for more on crisis at the southern border, douglas nichols. mr. mayor, thank you for joining us. you had vip delegation of republicans in the judiciary committee having a field hearing there. what was your takeaway from it? i think it was great and any time we can get members from congress to come and actually see what s happening on the bored. i was disappointed we only had the republicans from the committee and we didn t have the
so these large surges when they come through, they do tax our hospital, the hospital talked about some of the challenges when they had too many people in maternity ward and babies being born and how they can release and the resources were provided. locally because we have a nonprofit that really helps control the flow of people and help them get to ultimate destination, we don t have a whole lot of local impact, however, they have a capacity and they ve been near that capacity in the past and should they exceed that, then we are going to have people on the streets looking for shelter, looking for food and that s why i declared an emergency so that we could be prepared for that kind of situation should it arise. griff: mayor douglas nichols, so important of the front lines of the border crisis. thank you, have a great weekend. you too. aishah: hard to believe it s been one year since the war in ukraine began. the anniversary being marked