THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB – THEY ARE EXPLOITING THE SYSTEM.

Immigration Crisis Grows, Border Patrol Overwhelmed

ICE is releasing over 1,000 illegal aliens a day as facilities and courts overcrowd.

Political Editors · Mar. 25, 2019

It’s getting harder and harder for Democrats to ignore the fact that there is an ongoing and growing crisis at the U.S. southern border. But they are still trying because they don’t want to concede that President Donald Trump is right, and that his demand for more border funding to build a wall in order to better secure the border is indeed needed. The question is, how much longer can Democrats deny reality?

In a 176-page report, the American Bar Association recently warned of an “existential crisis” that has reached “unprecedented levels” in the number of immigration cases clogging up the courts. The ABA notes that there are over one million backlogs in the immigration courts. The report states, “Crucially, the number of cases pending before the immigration courts (which were about 262,000 cases at the time of the 2010 Report) has increased to unprecedented levels. There were more than 760,000 pending cases at the end of FY 2018 and an additional 330,000 cases that could be returned to active dockets in short order.”

The report adds, “Today the immigration courts are facing an existential crisis. In light of the fundamentally changed nature of the threat to the immigration court system, the overall conclusion … is that the current system is irredeemably dysfunctional and on the brink of collapse.”

Furthermore, The Washington Times reports that “deportation officers are cutting loose more than 1,000 illegal immigrant family members a day, setting them free into border states as the surge of migrations overwhelms the government’s ability to handle them, officials revealed Thursday.”

Nathalie R. Asher, the acting executive associate director for ICE’s deportation division, noted, “The current crisis that is occurring at the southwest border, the numbers that we collectively as a nation are seeing … is absolutely unprecedented.”

So how about that wall?

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Legal Hurdles Exacerbate Border Crisis

Trump administration officials warn about ever-growing immigration trouble.

Thomas Gallatin · Mar. 29, 2019

Ignoring a problem won’t make it go away. Neither will claiming that it is not a problem. But maybe worst of all is actually acknowledging the problem, claiming to want to work to solve it, and then doing nothing. That latter response has essentially been the modus operandi of Congress regarding illegal immigration and border security for decades now, and as a result that problem has exploded into the crisis America is witnessing today.

On Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan, speaking from El Paso, briefed the press on the current border crisis. According to McAleenan, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all along our Southwest border. And nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso. On Monday and Tuesday, CBP started the day with over 12,000 migrants in our custody. As of this morning, that number was 13,400. A high number for us is 4,000. A crisis level is 6,000. 13,000 is unprecedented.” In fact, he said, “We are now on pace for over 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants in March.”

He further noted that the number of families and children illegally crossing has increased exponentially to the point that “65% of crossings are now families and children.” The cause for the increase in family units crossing, McAleenan explained, was “a direct response to the vulnerabilities in our legal framework where migrants and smugglers know that they will be released and allowed to stay in the U.S. indefinitely, pending immigration proceedings that could be many years out.”

With regard to those legal hurdles that are only exacerbating the crisis, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will ask Congress for greater authority to deport unaccompanied illegal-alien minors.

In a letter to Congress, Nielsen highlights the plight of illegal-alien children, noting that many “are arriving sicker than ever before after traveling on the treacherous trek.” She further explains that the growing number of unaccompanied children (UAC) is due to the “pull factor” of current U.S. law that prevents DHS from deporting them back to their families in their home countries.

Nielson also requests that Congress change policy to “allow asylum-seekers to apply for U.S. protection from within Central America, rather than take the dangerous journey north.”

Clearly, Democrats are exploiting this crisis while pretending it doesn’t even exist. How reprehensibly cynical.

Still think Kris Kobach needs to be assigned on a special assignment to assist the DHS SECRETARY to help her since she requested help – two heads are better than one.

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