Yesterday evening the commissioner for the Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, issued a stark statement for the public to hear regarding the crisis at the border.
McAleenan, who just two weeks ago warned Congress that our immigration system was nearing the breaking point, now says that ‘breaking point’ has arrived this week.
Watch:
McAleenan says that CPB is experiencing an “unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis” all across the Southern Border but it’s even worse in El Paso, Texas. He notes that on Monday and Tuesday, CBP began the day with over 12,000 migrants in their custody, noting that yesterday morning it over 13,000.
To put this into perspective, McAleenan says a high number for them is 4,000 and a crisis level is 6,000. He says 13,000 migrants in custody is unprecedented.
Lastly, he says they are now on pace to reach 100,000 apprehensions just in the month of March, and 90% of those will be illegal crossings.
Fast forward to this morning, Trump says Mexico is doing nothing to stem the flow of illegals coming to the border. He also faults Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. He says the Democrats don’t care that we have such bad laws and warns that he may close the southern border:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1111212351204835328Closing the southern border would be a big deal, but at this point it might be the only thing they can do to help stem the crisis. The problem is that with 90% of the migrants crossing illegally, it may not be as effective as it sounds. And I’m sure that number would quickly increase once they close it.
The bottom line is that it looks like Trump doesn’t have a lot of good options to deal with the border crisis. Democrats don’t care about fixing our broken immigration laws and the media certainly isn’t going to put pressure on them to make it happen.
And then there’s this…
The “Mother of All Caravans” now forming in Honduras, estimated to reach 20,000. Only foreign press covering. This is different than the 2,500 one I’ve been tweeting about lately. https://t.co/QTmbNrMdn1
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) March 28, 2019