State of Emergency in Arizona 

The Mayor of Yuma, Arizona Douglas Nicholls has declared a local emergency after an unprecedented number of migrants entered the city.

 The situation in the small town can only be described as a humanitarian crisis as authorities struggle to manage the flow of people in the area. Yuma Mayor, Douglas Nicholls, said in a press release that the number of migrants in the area has gone up by 2,647%. The Mayor also noted that the US Border Patrol has encountered more than 6,000 migrants in the last five days.  

Nicholls and others are worried that this massive influx of people will overwhelm medical staff at the local hospital and result in people being unable to get essential medical care. 

The declaration of a local emergency is not just a cry for help, this declaration makes the city eligible for all sorts of funding from the state and federal government in order to mitigate the crisis. Experts fear that these funds will not be enough for the town and that more needs to be done by the government.