Opinion: Yes, There’s a Crisis at the Border
We interrupt the talk of the president “manufacturing” a crisis at the border with this hair-raising report about the crisis at the border.
More than 76,000 migrants were apprehended crossing the southern border last month, the highest February in more than 10 years and the highest month of the Trump administration. The number of apprehensions tops any month during the 2014 border surge under President Barack Obama, which no one had a problem calling a crisis at the time.
Yes, there were more overall apprehensions in the 2000s. But it was a different population, made up overwhelmingly of adult males from Mexico who might be apprehended trying to cross multiple times and were reliably returned home when they were caught. Now, we are apprehending people but not returning them.
There is no mechanism to return these migrants home, to hold them after they cross the border, or to remove them once they are in the interior. And word has gotten out. There’s a reason that the subset of migrants that we can’t stop from getting into the country is rapidly growing. Needless to say, a spiraling border crisis is maddening for a president committed to controlling the border, which is why we’ve seen such frenetic activity from Trump.
First, there’s the question of basic sovereignty. If we are going to welcome a large number of migrants—and over time perhaps a significant portion of the population—from three or four foreign countries, we should make that decision as a conscious policy, rather than slip-sliding into it unawares.
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