On Wednesday, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly went for the campaign season photo op when he toured the border in the Yuma Sector, after having voted this weekend to dismantle Title 42—which allows the United States to quickly expel immigrants who enter the country illegally.
The Yuma Sector has seen a surge in migration, and multiple migrant deaths due to the extreme heat and swift canal waters migrants encounter due to unscrupulous cartel coyotes.
In June, a 5-year-old migrant drowned in the Morelos Dam area after the child was separated from their mother while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma.
#USBP agents assigned to the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) and the Yuma Station rescued a migrant from the All American Canal Monday morning. Agents used a rescue disc to pull the migrant from the powerful current and then helped him up the bank. #YumaSector #heroes pic.twitter.com/fXfi3I4CQ9
— Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem (@USBPChiefYUM) August 2, 2022
In April, Kelly came out against President Joe Biden’s plan to lift Title 42, saying that it would “cause chaos,” and demanded that the Biden administration come up with “a plan if you lift Title 42.”
Yet, this weekend Kelly voted “no” on a proposed amendment offered by Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma proposed the amendment to extend Title 42.
Kelly has been silent on the Department of Homeland Security’s decision yesterday to end the “Remain In Mexico” Trump era policy.
The Biden Administration's termination of the "Remain in Mexico" policy will open the floodgates to mass illegal immigration into our country.
This was not by accident.
This was deliberate.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) August 10, 2022
Biden’s DHS announced its intent to end the effective “Remain in Mexico” border policy, which requires illegal immigrants to stay in Mexico until their asylum claims are decided by a judge. Kelly has voted to end the policy in the past.
“Mark Kelly is casting the decisive vote that will only exacerbate the border crisis,” said Kelly’s Republican challenger in the U.S. Senate race, Blake Masters.
Across the Arizona – Mexico border, agents are intercepting record numbers of illegal migrants.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, testifying to a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on human trafficking in April, said that illegal border entries rose from 400 migrants a month to 8,000 migrants a month over a two-year period, based on images captured by a camera system run by his department.
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