This is what life is like in a border city
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People who live in Douglas, Arizona, have a unique perspective as the country deals with an influx of migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
Douglas, Arizona, is a small and quiet city on the U.S.-Mexico border with a population of about 16,000.
To the south, Douglas is surrounded by border fencing and barbed wire on both sides of the port of entry.
"That port of entry is very busy," said Bruce Whetten, a reporter for the Herald Review.
The port in Douglas is known for drug trafficking. In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a 19-year-old man attempting to smuggle nearly 500,000 blue fentanyl pills into the U.S.
"Ever since I've been here, drugs have been a problem, and it's getting worse now with fentanyl, but at the same time, you know, it's a never-ending battle between good and evil on this, as to, you know, the law enforcement trying to stop it and the drug pushers are trying to get it across," said Whetten.
