Trump has no interest in addressing border issues or immigration reform
The Trump administration is right about one thing: The U.S. immigration system is broken, and the surge of desperate migrant families from Central America arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border threatens to overwhelm the resources the government has deployed there.
But President Trump’s inane responses not only won’t solve the problems, they will in all likelihood make them worse. Some of the policies — such as forcing asylum seekers to wait in often squalid conditions in Mexico while their claims proceed — are inhumane and probably illegal.
And if Trump follows through this week with one of his favorite threats — closing the border if Mexico doesn’t stop the human tide — he would cause significant economic damage to the U.S. About $1.5 billion in goods, much of it crucial to supply chains for American manufacturers, crosses the border daily, as do an estimated 1 million people.
The president argues that a spike in the number of families seeking asylum at the border has created a national emergency. It hasn’t. In fact, the number of migrants apprehended at the border in recent months has increased over the last couple of years, but remains a fraction of the 1.5 million a year during the Clinton administration.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-trump-border-central-america-mexico-20190401-story.html
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