“It is a serious problem, but it is not the kind of crisis that requires demonization of desperate people,” Sen. Bernie Sanders says when asked if the spike of migrants at the southern border is a crisis. CNNSOTU
Trump administration officials say the skyrocketing numbers are more proof for the case they've been making for months: Loopholes in the US immigration system, they say, are incentivizing a growing number of migrants to come and sparking a dramatic change in who's making the journey. Democrats argue the administration itself is to blame and that its policies have exacerbated the crisis.Read More Meanwhile, there's a significant shift in who officials are taking into custody.
In addition, he says, the Mexican government's efforts earlier this year to provide documents legalizing more migrants who arrived in Mexican territory may have incentivized some to make the journey. "It's a snowball effect. There's not one cause. ... But I think it's hard to figure out how you stop that. It gains a momentum of its own which becomes much harder to stop."U.S.
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