Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls said Friday that the 300,000 migrants that have come through the area this year are the real trespassers, and he didn't see a letter from the administration to try to stop that.

"Right now we're at about 5,000 to 6,000 people a week coming through the Yuma sector alone. We're also getting drug seizures of meth and fentanyl here at record levels, so those are all activity coming through just a porous border," Nicholls told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

"So working with the governor's office, we're able to identify some of the higher traffic areas and the governor did mobilize and very quickly get up shipping containers to block those areas. Now, that shifts the traffic. It doesn't stop the traffic, but it shifts it to areas that are a little bit easier to focus more on that activity. So it's more easy to address with law enforcement and Border Patrol," he said.

When asked how the administration responded to the governor's decision, the mayor said, "They say this is federal land, and it is, but it would be trespassing supposedly to put these containers on there. Well, my contention is that 300,000 people that have come through this year alone, they've been trespassing, and I don't remember seeing a letter going out to anybody to try to stop any of that.

"This is really about effective solutions in a timely manner. I understand the administration's going to be doing some fencing. We've been waiting. In the interim, these containers are in place," Nicholls said.

The Interior Department sent a letter to the governor, saying that the "unauthorized placement" of shipping containers is "a violation of federal law and is a trespass against the United States." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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