YCSO says undocumented immigrants cost taxpayers thousands of dollars in 2018

The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said 1,700 undocumented immigrants needed hospital treatment in Yuma, services that amounted to $700,000 of taxpayer money in fiscal year 2018.

YCSO sourced those numbers to the U.S Border Patrol. In the Tweet released Friday morning, YCSO said it also required over 10,000 man hours to guard everyone that was admitted into Yuma Regional Medical Center.

YCSO also said that when the Yuma sector built its border wall apprehensions went down by 95 percent.

The Tweet came hours before President Donald Trump announced an end to the government shutdown, just hours shy of hitting its fifth week. The government will reopen for three weeks, while the president says a bipartisan group will work on a package to secure the border. Border wall funding was not part of the deal.