During an early morning visit to where the border wall ends in Yuma, on the edge of the Cocopah Reservation, we witnessed migrants from all over the world enter from Mexico and line up along the wall.
The local hospital has provided $20 million in uncompensated care to migrants in just the last few months.
The produce industry in Yuma, which provides nearly all of the lettuce consumed in the United States and Canada in the winter months, has been forced to implement time consuming and expensive measures to prevent E. coli contamination, which is at an elevated risk due to the steady stream of migrants that hike through the lettuce fields, sometimes relieving themselves.
Then there is the drug trafficking, which has become easier to do since Border Patrol agents are now busy greeting migrants.
Border Patrol agents often care for migrants in desperate situations and sometimes even deliver babies.
Just south of the border, in the Mexican city of Mexicali, we visited three bustling migrant shelters filled with people from all over the world who have responded to Biden's La Invitacion.
There is a growing queue of migrants stretching deep into Central America, all waiting for the change in policy before they make their way to the United States.
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