Opinion: Yes, there is a crisis at the southern border. Trump made it worse.
By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 10 at 6:57 PM I’ll admit it: President Trump is right. There’s a crisis on the southern border.
Customs and Border Protection reported on Tuesday that 103,492 migrants were either apprehended or turned away along the southern border in March , the largest number in 12 years and more than quadruple the 23,557 in Trump’s first full month as president, and double the level seen early last fall. The open-border, catch-and-release, amnesty-loving, no-enforcement Obama administration never did this poorly.
The attempt to crack down on asylum, including holding applicants in Mexico, encouraged more migrants to attempt illegal crossings. The profusion of enforcement crackdowns — including the administration’s half-baked family separation policy — strained and distracted personnel. The government shutdown and unstable management slowed the government’s response to the migration surge.
Trump is thrashing about for a solution: an emergency declaration that takes funds from the military for a border wall; a threat to shut the border entirely; a debate about restoring the disastrous family separation policy; an attempt to blame President Barack Obama; a reshuffle at DHS; and more attacks on migrants: “They’re coming like it’s a picnic, because ‘Let’s go to Disneyland.’ ”
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