Will the Last Person in Central America Please Turn Out the Lights?
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 27, 2019
Just when I was convinced that the immigration emergency at the border could not get any worse, Texas Monthly makes clear that it has. Bottom line: In just the last five months, 0.47 percent of the population of Guatemala and 0.645 percent of the population of Honduras has been arrested along the Southwest border, stretching U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) resources to the point that Border Patrol highway checkpoints are being shuttered and CBP officers are being pulled from the ports of entry in order to handle the flow.
On March 23, 2019, that magazine published a shocking portrait of what is going on along and near the border between the United States and Mexico, captioned "Border Patrol Inland Checkpoints Shut Down So Agents Can Help Process Asylum Seekers". As that article reports:
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