Fucken politicians literally threw away our country.
Mexican officials warn of another caravan of 20,000 migrants preparing to shoot north, hoping to take advantage of the lax enforcement in both Mexico and lenient policies in the U.S. About 100,000 immigrants responding to those incentives have been nabbed at the border in March alone.
“The result is an illegal immigration superhighway that’s flowing through Mexico,” one senior Homeland Security Department official told The Washington Times.
By now, the nature of the border problem is clear: Families and children, assisted by drug smuggling cartels, have figured out how to exploit loopholes in federal law to gain a foothold in the U.S. They are coming in larger numbers and poorer health, and Homeland Security says it has reached the breaking point.
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen thought she had scored a victory last week by signing a deal to strengthen efforts with Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to keep their people at home. She returned from a trip to the region to tout the agreement, saying all sides shared responsibility.
But the State Department, bowing to President Trump’s anger over the border situation, said this weekend that it would withhold commitments the U.S. made over the past two years to those countries.
“If we are going to give these countries hundreds of millions of dollars, we would like them to do more,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told CNN’s “State of the Union” show Sunday. “We could prevent a lot of what’s happening on the southern border by preventing people from moving into Mexico in the first place.”
Mr. Trump’s anger has also extended to Mexico. He said last week that authorities could stop the Central Americans but lacked the willpower to do so.
The president said he would shut down the border unless something changes.
“They have to grab it, and they have to stop it,” the president said. “We right now have two big caravans coming up from Guatemala, massive caravans, walking right through Mexico. Mexico is tough. They can stop them. But they chose not to. If they don’t stop them, we’re closing the border.”
U.S. officials said Mr. Trump’s frustration has flared after the Mexican government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December.