Trump suggests we need a wall
Because MS-13 is streaming across the southern border.
“We have people flooding our borders," Trump said at a rally in Montana Thursday night. "Never had a rush like this, people want a piece of our action."
Well...
“Enrique Morones, founder of the pro-immigrant nonprofit Border Angels, noted that the number of captures along the border has remained historically low in the last five years.”
“And Everard Meade, director of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute, said apprehensions along the Southwest boundary have in fact hovered along a 40-year bottom since 2011.
"The long-term pattern is clear — fewer and fewer unauthorized migrants have been trying to enter the U.S. for more than 15 years — and it's mostly the product of larger macro-economic trends, not short-term changes in immigration policy or political rhetoric," he said via email.
The latest CBP numbers also seem to question the Trump administration's warnings about a surge in Central American families at the border.”
“The Trans-Border Institute estimates that apprehensions at the Southwest border are on track to total about 380,000 by the end of the CBP's fiscal year in September. That compares to 303,916 in 2017, 408,870 in 2016, 331,333 in 2015 and 479,371 in 2014, according to CBP numbers”
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Fear is a great motivator. Fear and ignorance, a great combination.
