Hundreds of migrants who illegally crossed the border have been released in an Arizona border city without being fully processed, according to a new report. 

According to The Daily Mail, hundreds of migrants were released into Yuma, Arizona, on Friday after Mayor Douglas Nicholls reportedly said migrants who were “vetted” but not fully processed would be let out of holding. The outlet reported that 140 people were dropped off at the Yuma Public Safety Training Facility to be brought to Phoenix and another 140 were released at two other sites, including another one in Yuma and one in San Luis. 

“This is decompressing and the federal government is relying on the local and state government to do its job,” said Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines. “It’s another failure of the Biden Administration to manage a problem they created with their open border policy.”

The releases come as a record number of migrants have crossed from Mexico into the U.S., according to Border Patrol. 

“Border Patrol reports a record setting 83,000 migrants crossed our border illegally this week alone. Just to put that number in perspective for you, that is equivalent to a full capacity Dallas Cowboys football stadium crossing our border in a single week,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin said.

The record crossings come amid the ending of Title 42, a Trump-administration immigration policy that allowed migrants to be turned back based on COVID concerns. In anticipation of its end, up to 700,000 people, including many from Central America, were waiting at the border for entry. 

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Nicholls said on Thursday that those released had received at least processing, saying that none would be criminals. 

“These are people that have been vetted to at least to the point where Border Patrol has issued them notice to appear papers wherever they end up living in the country,” he said. “I ask everyone, all of our citizens to remain calm. There’s not people that have that are convicted of crimes that are being released.”

The Republican mayor called for President Joe Biden to declare a national emergency on the border leading up to the expiration of Title 42. Over 114,000 people have crossed somewhere into the Yuma sector this year, including many single adults. 

Biden, who has faced widespread criticism for his handling of the border, will reportedly spend his weekend at his beach home in Delaware — which is guarded by a taxpayer-funded wall — as immigration officials will be working on to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.

A dead body was found in an Arby’s walk-in freezer in Louisiana this week, prompting an investigation from police. 

The body belonged to a manager of an Arby’s restaurant in New Iberia, Louisiana, and the death is believed to be an accident, according to police. The body was found around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. 

“So it was an employee that discovered the female deceased inside the cooler, [and] the deceased is an employee of the restaurant,” New Iberia Police Captain Leland Laseter, the head of criminal investigations, told KADN News 15.

“A situation like this is unusual, so we’re taking extra precautions during the investigation,” Laseter added. “[We] pretty much have completed our process at the crime scene. After completely processing the crime scene … this does not seem like a homicide, it seems like an accident.”

Laseter acknowledged that the death did seem “suspicious” but said police had not yet uncovered any evidence of “foul play.” He added that “nothing is set in stone” and said that they were still waiting for medical examiners to determine the cause of death. 

“We’re going to re-examine all the evidence tomorrow and they’re going to conduct an autopsy to give us the cause and manner of death. So there are a few more steps that we need to take before a [final] determination is made,” he said. 

The woman’s name has not yet been released. 

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Arby’s responded to the news by releasing a statement saying that it would be cooperating with police and deferring any comment to investigators. 

“We are aware of the incident that took place at our franchised location in New Iberia, LA,” the statement said. “The franchisee is cooperating fully with local authorities as they conduct their investigation. Due to this being an active investigation, we defer any further comment to the police department.”

New Iberia, a city of around 28,000, is located in the southern portion of the state, not far from Lafayette. 

Last year, an Arby’s in Washington also earned unwanted attention after police said that they discovered videos of a night manager urinating in in milkshake mix. Police were investigating the man on suspicion of obtaining and distributing child pornography. 

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