The One Document that Explains the Border Crisis
By Andrew R. Arthur on December 12, 2018
One of the refrains that you hear often is that immigration is a "complicated issue". I don't want to endanger my source of income, but, frankly, in most contexts it's not true. In fact, one document from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explains the current crisis that is going on at the Southwest border between Tijuana and San Ysidro: the "Claims of Fear" report.
That document compares the number of aliens who are deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry and who are apprehended along the Southwest border with the number of aliens who subsequently claim credible fear. As CBP states therein:
https://cis.org/Arthur/One-Document-Explains-Border-Crisis
