NYT: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month

New York Times ^ | March 5, 2019 | Caitlin Dickerson

[reaganaut1]

For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.

More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, more than double the levels from the same period last year and approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years.

“The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in announcing the new data.

Diverted by new restrictions at many of the leading ports of entry, migrant families continue to arrive in ever-larger groups in remote parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. At least 70 such groups of 100 or more people have turned themselves in at Border Patrol stations that typically are staffed by only a handful of agents, often hours away from civilization. By comparison, only 13 such groups arrived in the last fiscal year, and two in the year before.

More than 90 percent of the new arrivals were from Guatemala, officials said, with a significant change in the dynamics of the migration: While Central American migrants once took weeks to journey through Mexico to the United States, many Guatemalan families are now boarding buses and reaching the southwest border in as little as four to seven days “on a very consistent basis,” Mr. McAleenan said.

Mr. McAleenan also declared sweeping changes to the agency’s procedures for guaranteeing adequate medical care for migrants — an overhaul brought on by the deaths of two migrant children in the agency’s custody in December.

[Deo volente]

THIS... from the NEW YORK TIMES???
Yes, and they're rubbing their hands in glee that the Cloward-Piven strategy is working so well on the border.

Next step: driver's licenses and motor voting registration as Democrats. The destruction of America proceeding on schedule.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks reaganaut1.

• More Migrant Families Arrested at Border in Five Months Than Any Previous Full Year
• Border Rush May Hit 100,000 Migrants in March
• Two Caravans A Week: 70,000 Detained Along The Southern Border In February
• 'You Have to Pay With Your Body': The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border

[Religion and Politics]

Who is providing the buses?

Rather, who is paying for the tickets?

[keats5]

So in other words, the NYT is claiming that Trump is so terrible, people are pouring into the USA.

[GOPJ]

Guatemala? Isn’t that a violent hellhole? Guess they’re gonna bring the violence with them...

[sunny48]

75,000. I heard 1,000,000 by the end of the year.
They aren’t migrants. They aren’t illegal immigrants.
It’s an invasion.

[Freedom4US]

Different culture, eh? With a propensity to commit terrorism against Jews and Christians.

It’s almost like they shouldn’t be let in the country. Almost.

These people are so goddamned stupid it beggars belief. I hope they die in a fire.

[AndyJackson]

How can this be? I thought their belief was that we had no borders.

[KTM rider]

the communista subversives in our government want to block Trump from funding our border defense, but Obama got away with murder involving executive over-reach, so many examples it boggles the mind for example :

Obama sent $221 million to the Palistenian terrorists upon leaving office

[Crucial]

So I’d say this more than justifies Trump’s executive order.

[OftheOhio]

“Expecting another false flag soon.”

Well that didn’t take long. https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/15/new-york-times-op-ed-trump-breitbart-news-have-blood-on-their-hands-in-christchurch-new-zealand/