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The border is in crisis. Here’s how it got this bad.
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 05, 2019 12:59pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Dara Lind |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 5, 2019 06:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Donald Trump’s constant temper tantrums about the US/Mexico border have become the background noise of his administration. Even as he reaches for more and more drastic threats to try to “stop” the flow of unauthorized migrants into the US — like the threat of a 5 percent tariff on all goods coming into the US from Mexico — it seems that the public (including fellow Republican politicians) have an ever harder time taking him seriously.
But as Trump has raged, something genuinely unprecedented has started happening at the border.
The past several months have seen a huge spike in unauthorized migration, especially of families, into the US.
What’s happening at the border is the result of a regional crisis in which — if current rates continue — close to 1 percent of the entire population of Guatemala and Honduras will attempt to immigrate to the US this year. The Mexican government, meanwhile, is vacillating between humanitarian rhetoric and militarized crackdowns, US border officials are openly begging for help, and Trump himself is throwing the mother of all temper tantrums. |
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