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YUMA, Ariz. — Spectrum News anchors Giselle Fernandez and Brett Shipp, alongside digital journalist Susan Carpenter, are traveling along the southern border as part of the Driving the Border series, and on Wednesday morning they were in this Arizona border town.

What they witnessed crystallized the humanitarian crisis taking place. 

At a break in the border wall, the journalists watched as families arrived and crossed the border with children.

“It’s something we did not expect to see happening in front of us. Same thing happened yesterday. We were here, we were setting up, we were watching 15 or so Guatemalans come across this same gap in the border, being peacefully received,” Shipp said. “And the contrast between what is happening now, what we’re witnessing this morning and yesterday, it is something that would not have happened months ago under another administration.”

Among the families to cross the border Wednesday was a Haitian couple traveling with a 1-year-old.  Following a six-week trip that took them through Brazil and Chile, they were in need of immediate medical attention.

“He (the child) has a problem with his leg and his body. I don’t have anything to help the baby,” the father of the 1-year-old said.

Another family that arrived Wednesday is comprised of a mother and two little girls, ages 4 and 6, from Honduras. During a trip that took six weeks, they were part of a group. At one point along their journey, the family was abandoned by that group.

It was clear that the gap in the wall is a site where people seeking asylum frequently cross. U.S. Border Patrol were waiting for the migrants, some who are fleeing persecution and all of whom are seeking a better life in the United States.