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Obama administration not taking border surge 'seriously,' lawmaker charges

    By Malia Zimmerman Published September 21, 2016

    The surge of unaccompanied children pouring across the Mexico border has spiked in recent months, putting the kids in danger and jeopardizing the safety of U.S. citizens, a powerful lawmaker told the Department of Homeland Security in a blistering letter earlier this week.

    The Obama administration is not taking the matter of “shocking” and “alarming” increases in the number of children flooding in seriously, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote in the letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. The lawmaker said the crisis has only worsened since it gained national prominence two years ago, with nearly 6,000 unaccompanied children and more than 9,000 families from Central America apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol last month, Johnson, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said.

    “Over the last several years, the United States has experienced a surge of illegal immigrants entering the country through our porous southwest border,” Johnson wrote in the September 20 letter. “Since 2014, over 100,000 unaccompanied children and a similar number of family units have arrived at our border. I am concerned the surge appears to be spiking in recent months, with the number of people apprehended doubling and even tripling from the same months in previous years.”


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