Posted on 03/06/2019 7:05:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
"This is clearly both a border security and humanitarian crisis."
While Democrats insist that there's "no crisis at the border," left-leaning NPR reports that illegal border crossings just hit a 10-year high and migrants are literally arriving by the "busload."
"Since last year, Border Patrol agents say, they have routinely encountered large groups of a hundred or more migrants at the border, many of them arriving by bus from Guatemala," NPR reports. "According to immigration authorities, the passengers consist almost entirely of families and children who are looking for Border Patrol agents to turn themselves in to. Agents say they've encountered 70 large groups since last year."
The numbers are staggering: Over the last five months, the number of migrants attempting to cross the border picked up by Border Patrol has increased over 90% over the same period last year. U.S. Customs and Border Protection say they've picked up a stunning 260,000 people since October and 66,000 in February alone.
The February total is "the highest total for a single month in almost a decade," NPR reports. While NPR is careful to note the flood of migrants is still not near historic highs, the makeup of those being apprehended has shifted in a way that is particularly taxing for authorities: rather than single men trying to cross, as was the trend in the past, agents are increasingly picking up families and children.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
Overrun.
Sounds like Barack is organizing S America.
This is how nations are destroyed.
It’s by design!
Is it true that all of these people are being brought into the US and released, after being instructed to show up in court+
Who is paying for the bus?
I want the wall but I also want employers punished for hiring them. And absolutely no government assistance of any kind.
democrats importing votes.
Sounds like a national emergency
Follow the money. Someone is bankrolling this and I guarantee it’s a left wing effort to increase the illegal immigrant population in order to win votes.
So we cannot use our military troops to protect our country from this invasion? That is absurd.
Trump should shut the Mexican border until THEY STOP THIS CRAP!..........................
Win elections.........................
Dems and a few Rinos giving them hope
These buses and trucks and other vehicles and their support people who furnish food, clothes along the way should be taken out. Someone is behind this organization...who?
A National Emergency
...and now we see just why Democrats get hysterical whenever “voter ID” is mentioned.
History, if it is recorded accurately, will show the true blame to lie with Republicans. For not fighting hard for voter ID and the wall (that’s you, Paul Ryan).
We are also to blame for allowing the public schools to be lost to the left.
And GOP Senators insist with a straight face there’s no border emergency. Yup, they want to embarrass the President so they can show their uniparty solidarity with the Democrats.
That’s the ticket.
If NPR is calling it a crisis, then it must be a whopper!.......................
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