Yuma, Arizona – 11 Republican Attorney Generals visited US-Mexico Border Wall Remote Yuma in Arizona touted this week that illegal crossings have fallen by more than 90% since President Donald Trump began his second term.
Their visit came a day before the House narrowly passed Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” This allocates $46.5 billion to revive the construction of the wall. At the current stage, it covers just a quarter of the approximately 1,900-mile stretch that separates the US from Mexico. In Yuma, a city of just 110,000 people, local officials explained to the Kansas Republican Attorney General, Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Montana, Iowa and Indiana. It has fallen to around four illegal crossings every day since Trump took office.
In addition to the border wall itself, Kansas Attorney General Chris Kobach (Graduate General Assembly) told the chairman of FOX News Digital that it requires other “force multipliers” especially for the task of carrying out the task of performing “the biggest internal elimination since the Eisenhower administration.” He has announced three additional GOP states that will enter into a 287(g) agreement with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This means local and state lawmakers and officers are trained to exercise federal enforcement rights, including immigration-related arrests, initiating removal processes, conducting investigations, and tapping ICE databases.
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The Republican Attorney General of 11 states visited the border wall in Yuma, Arizona on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Daniel Wallace/Fox News Digital)
“What the Trump administration needs most right now is the multiplier of force,” Kobach said. “Doubling the number of boundary patrol agents at Ice Station is not enough. This boundary wall I’m looking at is a multiplier of one force in the boundary line. The other large force multiplier is when state and local law enforcement signs a 287(g) contract to support the ice inside.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said 540 kilograms of fentanyl and 850 kilograms of cocaine were trafficked to the Palmetto state, which was born from a Mexican drug cartel. A kilo alone is enough to kill half a million people.
“This is like keeping me up at night. I have two teenagers in high school. When I hear that parents lose their children to an overdose, it really hits your core. “As a 29-year veteran of the Army, a veteran of the Iraq War, in terms of national security and law enforcement, what happens here is what happens here, and the president’s policies here have allowed local law enforcement and local prosecutors to fight more effectively against illegal activities like Mexican drugs and mexican cartels and gangs like Alagaa.
Wilson said it is important to strengthen the “digital border.” Mexican drug cartels Chinese citizens and other illegal criminal organizations use platforms such as WeChat to wash away the proceeds of human trafficking and other crimes. Wilson has partnered with Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Attorney General Jeff Jackson, Democrats from four other states, in a bipartisan effort to target Chinese apps allegedly linked to the international fentanyl trade.
The Republican Attorney General will retain the makeshift fencing used during the Biden administration’s surge in Yuma, Arizona on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Daniel Wallace/Fox News Digital)
Yuma’s 11 Republican Attorney Generals stressed the importance of traveling to the tropical border, despite not directly adjacent to Mexico. Under the Biden administration, Republicans argued that all states have become border states with fentanyl and other deadly drug trafficking, as well as people at the border.
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“On a dark day during the Biden administration, this part of the border saw illegal intersections of 1,500 people a day. There are only four people today. That’s leadership.” “In Kentucky, last year lost 1,400 lives to drugs that come across this border. That’s not abstract. It’s an empty chair at the kitchen table. Thank you to the men and women who wear the badges.
“Allabama may not be a border state, but we’ve seen the costs of open borders: fentanyl deaths, increased crime. The difference now is not changing law, but leadership,” said Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. “Border encounters have declined by 93% and 95%. This is the result of immigration enforcement taking on their jobs. We are no longer the last line of defense. We are partners restoring the rule of law.”
“When federal officials can’t do their jobs, every state becomes a border state, even in Indiana,” said Indiana Attorney General Todd Lokita. “We were the first non-state nation to sue. Biden administration On that lawless immigration policy. Now, under new leadership, morale at the border is surged. I’m here not only for our law enforcement, but for our parents and experts caught up in a broken system, for teachers overwhelmed by fallout. Enough is enough. ”
On Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, we will be seeing the US-Mexico border wall in Yuma, Arizona. (Daniel Wallace/Fox News Digital)
Tour stops included seeing a pallet of border wall supplies worth $2 million under Trump’s first period in which the Biden administration blocked federal contractors from building. Kobach was classified as “exclusion of obligation” and “a deliberate effort to keep borders open.” The Republican Attorney General also heard from the local hospital system that caused $26 million to unexcluded care costs for the six months, primarily from immigrant treatment, from December 2021 to May 2022. At the peak of the crisis, about 350,000 Illegal Aliens It passed the Yumasector in a year under the Biden administration.
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The surge caused a $1.2 million loss to three family farms in the area as immigrants camped and defecated around the crop. Given that Yuma produces 2,500 loads of lush greenery per day during peak season, local officials have highlighted the national food security risks. Marine Top Gun School takes thousands of U.S. Marine to Yuma every six months, but local officials have told the Attorney General that they have highlighted how military preparations have been affected by the Biden border crisis.
