Davis Ornelas and his daughter Anli managed to walk through the water in the Colorado River in an area known as the Yuma Gap, where Mexico, Arizona and California meet.
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Ornelas says he arrived in Mexico from Venezuela on Tuesday and immediately headed for this spot along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I didn’t have to pay any smuggler, a lady told me where to walk to avoid deeper water and it was easy to get across,” Ornelas said in Spanish.
Ornelas is one of 6,000 migrants who in the last five days have made it into the United States through this point, according to Jonathan Lines, a Yuma County Supervisor.
“It’s a tragic situation, a humanitarian crisis. We saw a little bit of a downturn yesterday, but the numbers have climbed up today,” said Lines. “I don’t want to point a finger at anybody, but it would be nice to have federal resources here assisting.”
“It’s not a safe area,” he said. “Yesterday, after we delivered some food, the night before several of the groups we were assisting were held up at gunpoint from across the border; they crossed the border and threatened them at gunpoint, so not necessarily a safe area.”
SOURCE: BORDER REPORT
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