The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 08:41:58 pm
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The summer dip in illegal immigration is temporary, so Trump officials ought to stop celebrating
by Eddie Scarry
September 10, 2019 02:44 PM
While Trump administration officials and Border Patrol agents are high-fiving each other about a brief, minor dip in illegal crossings at the southern border, it’s important to highlight the most important thing acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan said on Monday, “We know these numbers could always spike upwards.â€
Indeed, that's exactly what will likely happen come the fall, when the weather cools and it becomes less dangerous for more Central Americans to trek their way north to the Texas border.
The administration is acting like it’s a win that border crossings have steadily declined in the last three months. And yet, even as August showed the lowest number of border apprehensions (64,000) since January, it’s still more than any August of the past five years.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-summer-dip-in-illegal-immigration-is-temporary-so-trump-officials-ought-to-stop-celebrating (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-summer-dip-in-illegal-immigration-is-temporary-so-trump-officials-ought-to-stop-celebrating)
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