Fact-checking Trump's speech
By Priscilla Alvarez and Holmes Lybrand, CNN
Updated 8:55 PM ET, Fri January 25, 2019
... the population that's approached the US-Mexico border ... largely come from the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) ...
Violence, drought and poor economic conditions in these countries are among the reasons that some have decided to make the journey.
... The nation's immigration courts have been faced with a massive backlog ... The government shutdown has made that worse ...
... the majority of hard narcotics seized by Customs and Border Protection come through ports of entry. The only drug that is smuggled in higher numbers between legal entry points -- where a wall or additional fencing might be built -- is marijuana ...
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