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CRISIS CONFIRMED: WaPo Says 70,000 Migrants Detained Just Last Month!


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How can you look at this and see anything other than a crisis?

When even the Washington Post is printing stories that say just last month there were 70,000 migrants detained at the border!

That’s just in one month!

That number should boggle your mind.

For every politician saying there’s no crisis, you’re just being intellectually dishonest in light of the published statistics.

Take a look, from the WaPo:

In a dusty lot along the U.S.-Mexico border fence, a single Border  Patrol agent was stuck with few options and falling temperatures. 

A  group of 64 parents and children had waded through a shallow bend in  the Rio Grande to turn themselves in to the agent on the U.S. side. He  radioed for a van driver, but there were none available. By 2 a.m., the  temperature was 44 degrees.

The agent handed out plastic space blankets. The group would have to wait.

Mothers  and fathers swaddled their families in the silvery, crinkling sheets  and clustered with them on the ground, shushing the children. They  shivered in the cold wind, and the sound of crying carried on, like a  broken alarm.

Groups like this arrived again and again in  February, one of the coldest and busiest months along the southern  border in years. U.S. authorities detained more than 70,000 migrants  last month, according to preliminary figures, up from 58,000 in January.  The majority were Central American parents with children who arrived,  again, in unprecedented numbers

During  a month when the border debate was dominated by the fight over  President Trump’s push for a wall, unauthorized migration in fiscal 2019  is on pace to reach its highest level in a decade. Department of Homeland Security  officials say they expect the influx to swell in March and April,  months that historically see large increases in illegal crossings as  U.S. seasonal labor demand rises.

The  number of migrants taken into custody last year jumped 39 percent from  February to March, and a similar increase this month would push levels  to 100,000 detentions or more. 

It was a surge in the border numbers in March 2018 that infuriated President Trump and launched his administration’s attempt to deter  families by separating children from their parents. Trump stopped the  separations six weeks later to quell public outrage. But the controversy  the policy generated — and its widely publicized reversal — is now  viewed by U.S. agents as the moment that opened the floodgates of family  migration even wider, worsening the problem it was meant to fix.

While  arrests along the border fell in recent years to their lowest levels in  half a century, they are now returning to levels not seen since the  George W. Bush administration, driven by the record surge in the arrival  of Central American families.

For U.S. border agents, the strain  has grown more acute, as they struggle to care for children using an  enforcement infrastructure made in an era when the vast majority of  migrants were Mexican adults who could be quickly booked and deported.  The Central American families — called “give-ups” because they surrender  instead of trying to sneak in — have left frustrated U.S. agents  viewing their own role as little more than the facilitators for the last  stage of the migrants’ journey. They are rescuing families with small  children from river currents, irrigation canals, medical emergencies and  freezing winter temperatures.

“We’re so cold,” said Marlen Moya,  who had left Guatemala with her sons six weeks earlier and crossed the  Rio Grande with the group of 64.

Moya’s son Gael, 6, was sick  with a fever and moaning, his face streaked with tears. “In Juarez, we  were shoved and yelled at,” she said, looking back across the river to  Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. “We slept on the street.” 

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Asked why she  didn’t cross during the day, when temperatures were mild, Moya said she  worried that Mexican police would stop them. “We’ve already come this  far,” she said. 

Much of the attention last fall was  focused on caravan groups, mostly from Honduras, as they reached  Tijuana, Mexico, not far from San Diego. Then concern shifted to Arizona  and New Mexico, where groups of rural Guatemalan families began showing  up at remote border outposts. Two Guatemalan children died in December  after being taken into U.S. custody, as Homeland Security officials  declared a humanitarian and national security crisis.

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