Administration officials have been sounding the alarm over the increase in migrants at the southern border, underscoring the change in demographics as one of the reasons for the host of challenges they’re facing.
“The rate at which this crisis is evolving is tremendous, so we absolutely need additional resources, more than we can reprogram or otherwise use under executive authority without Congress,” Nielsen said.
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Nielsen again said that the department is treating the situation at the southern border as if the US has have been hit by a “Cat 5 hurricane.”
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said late last month that the US was on pace to encounter more than 100,000 migrants in March alone, making it “the highest month since 2008.”
Source: Homeland security secretary on border situation: ‘We have an emergency on our hands’
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