GOP lawsuit halts most migration from Mexico. Yet, desperate people continue to cross
A Tucson, Ariz. shelter for migrant asylum seekers crossing into the US is seeing record capacity, despite a federal judge's order upholding Trump-era public health border restrictions.
Ever since he was a boy in the border city of Nogales, Ariz., Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says people have been crossing over into America looking for a better life. Only recently, he says, has this become red meat for national politicians.
"Caravans staging in Mexico, they're heading this way and it's gonna be a mass invasion," he says, chuckling. "It's never materialized the way they describe it."
On a recent afternoon, it was quiet in the high desert along the US-Mexico border several miles east of town. It's usually this way, Hathaway says.
"There you go, that's Mexico right there," he says, getting out of his SUV along a dirt road.
Hathaway is a former former DEA agent in Nogales and in South America.
