Mark Morgan: Trump critics say there’s no emergency at the border. The numbers show they are wrong
By Mark Morgan
Published March 29, 2019
Fox News
I agree the current crisis is not the same as it was in the late 1990s: It’s worse!
In 2016, as chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, I had a front-row seat for the impact of the “catch and release†policy, which effectively mandated border enforcement agencies release unaccompanied minors and family units into the interior of the United States, notwithstanding they had illegally entered our country.
What began in 2014 as phenomenon of an influx of families and children from the northern triangle countries has exponentially grown, resulting in a drastic shift in the demographics of those illegally entering the U.S. The number of Central American migrants exceeded the number of Mexican migrants in four of the past five years, reaching 75 percent of the crossings this fiscal year.
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