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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey addresses the media Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 7, 2021, on the Yuma Levee Road near County 8 1/2 Street in the Yuma Valley, near Yuma, Ariz., along the Colorado River, Morelos Dam and the United States-Mexico border. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP)

Arizona emerges as new border hotspot; governor deploys more National Guard troops

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 23, 2019, photo, is a "Welcome to Yuma" sign in Yuma, Ariz. Overwhelmed border officials have started releasing migrants into Arizona's rural Yuma County as more people arrive amid the coronavirus pandemic with hopes of making their home in America. Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls says the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, released a group of 20 people in the neighboring community of San Luis and that several similarly sized groups were let out later in the week. (Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun via AP) **FILE**

Not just Haitians: Brazilian, Venezuelan and Cuban migrants stream to Arizona border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrants who have been caught crossing the border illegally are housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas where they are processed on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. More than 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southwestern border since October, more than twice the total this time last year, many through the Rio Grande Valley. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Rick Loomis, Pool)

Feds mum on prosecution of illegal border crossers

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press