The administration is grasping to deal with an unprecedented spike in migrant families without a well-defined strategy and with significant divisions roiling Trump’s team.
President Trump surveys a border fence between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, Calif., on Friday.
In some cases, human smugglers have used Trump’s hard-line threats as “a sales tactic” to drum up business, warning would-be migrants that they must enter the United States before the president cracks down, said Theresa C. Brown, a career policy official at the Department of Homeland Security who left in 2011.
The administration’s reliance on increasingly tougher rhetoric and policy proposals has played out vividly over the past few months. In December and January, Trump shut down parts of the federal government for a record 35 days in an unsuccessful bid to win congressional funding for a border wall. He then declared a “national emergency” to circumvent Congress for roughly $6.7 billion for the wall and vetoed a bill passed by both chambers to overturn his order.
Sen. Jeff Merkley said Central American officials told him that President Trump’s threats are driving more migration to the United States. Sen. Jeff Merkley , who visited Mexico and Central American countries in recent months, said officials cited Trump’s threats to seal the border as “driving this new surge.”
“This is one of the most serious crises the Department of Homeland Security has ever faced,” she stated.
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