U.S. sets another record: most family apprehensions illegally crossing border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) set a new record in the arrest of family units at the southern border in the month of December. This comes in spite of the Trump administration's to slow the flow of migrants by tightening asylum restrictions and confronting aggressive caravans before they cross onto American soil.

CBP agents apprehended 27,518 members of family units in December, according to data released by the CBP on Wednesday. Those migrants, most of whom entered the already-strained asylum system upon capture, were among a total of 60,728 individuals caught trying to enter the country illegally last month.

President Trump is declaring the situation at our southern border a crisis, but what has changed since he first took office and Republicans had the House and Senate? He had the ability to build the wall as he promised during his campaign, but when it came down to it, he waited. [He also had the power to defund Planned Parenthood, as he promised. What happened?]

The number of migrants claiming membership in a family unit has risen steadily over the past five months as the Trump administration labors to find a legal way of reducing the population of migrants eligible to apply for asylum after crossing the border illegally.

The government shutdown is now in its third week and Trump has called on Congress Tuesday evening to pass a spending bill that includes the $5.7 billion [government pocket change] for the "steel-slat barrier" at the southern border. He also wants $800,000 for migrant housing as they await a ruling on their asylum applications.

President Trump on Thursday alluded to the probability of his taking executive action and calling the border situation a national emergency and in which, he believes, he is in the right to take action. Hopefully it doesn't come to that because it will have long-term consequences once the GOP is out of power, as is inevitable with both parties.

The Democrats see how the Harry Reid nuclear option came back to bite them on the buns, and the same will happen if Trump uses his office to declare a national emergency.

It's a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe.

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