House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) contend the crisis on the U.S. southern border
is manufactured.
Yet, The Washington Post, no friend to the Trump Administration, disagrees. According to the Post, the situation on the southern border is indeed “
a bona fide emergency.”
Record numbers of migrant families are coming to the United States, the U.S. immigration courts have a backlog
in excess of 800,000 cases and the holding cells and detention centers are at overflow capacity.
Add in the fact that scores of Americans
are killed by illegal immigrantsevery month, the
tremendous strain illegal aliens place on the
nation’s social welfare system, not to mention the human trafficking, drugs and crime burdening American citizens.
Still crickets from the left.
When we do hear from Democrats, it is because
they are expressing outrage over the Border Patrol taking non-lethal countermeasures to protect themselves from a migrant caravan bum rushing the border; a level of contempt we didn’t see from Democrats when former President
Barack Obama was faced with a nearly identical situation and dealt with it in a similar fashion a few years earlier.
Luckily for the White House, Americans by and large are not buying what Congressional Democrats are selling when it comes to the southern border. They want strong border security.
A recent survey from Morning Consult shows that 79 percent of registered voters see the situation at the southern border as a “crisis” or “problem.”
So what specifically makes this current southern border crisis different than the ones faced by President George W. Bush or Barack Obama? It is not so much the raw number of aliens crossing illegally, but the “
make up of the flow” that is different. More migrants hail from Central America, more are coming in family units, and there are more unaccompanied minors. This shift in composition of illegal immigrant groups is key to understanding how our current asylum laws combined with various other immigration loopholes and defects
allow them to specifically game the system in a way that unaccompanied adult Mexican nationals, who previously comprised the majority of illegal immigrants, cannot. In other words, once these folks (Central American migrants, family units and minors) arrive and set foot on U.S. soil, they are next to impossible to remove. This is why the Trump administration has gone to great lengths
to broker a deal with Mexico to serve as a staging area for Central American migrants until their asylum claims are processed.
