FLORENCE, Ariz.—A southern Arizona county sheriff said he expects illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings, drug, and human smuggling to increase “exponentially” following the end of Title 42.
“While there is certainly an influx of people, this has been a disaster for a while,” Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb said in an interview with The Epoch Times in Florence, Arizona, on May 10 amid initial field reports of more than 10,000 illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Southern border each day this week.
“It’s not something that just happened overnight. It’s been ongoing, and it’s going to get worse.”
Counties along Arizona’s porous southern border are already experiencing unprecedented numbers of illegal crossings and migrants waiting at the Donald Trump border wall to be processed when Title 42 expires on May 11….