The immigration problem needs legal remedies, Homeland Security officials say. The president longs for something harsher.
President Trump criticized U.S. immigration policies during a roundtable discussion on the economy and tax reform in Minnesota on April 15. Frustrated that his administration’s border control measures are not working, President Trump has been musing lately about the kinds of tactics he thinks would really get results.
The problem with this view of border enforcement, current and former officials say, is that it won’t work. The measures that could actually deter migration are less bruising and physically obvious, veering off instead into a world that is legal, technical and bureaucratic — and could take months or years to show results.
These are the people caught up in the U.S. immigration system, straining against its invisible walls View Graphic These are the people caught up in the U.S. immigration system, straining against its invisible walls Trump’s pinings for physical toughness were further belied in recent days by a White House request for $4.5 billion in supplemental border funding, most of which would cover the costs of the long-term care of migrant children who arrive at the border without parents.
He later told aides that Nielsen was tougher than he expected and that he was proud of her. But he regularly questioned whether she was tough enough on immigration, according to current and former aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the president’s behavior to reporters. “In any other civilization, a million people a year flooding into your country would be taken seriously, and you would use every means necessary within the bounds of humanity and dignity to stop that, but we don’t,” said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share candid views. “We’re constrained, and I think what he was saying is if you had troops doing some of these things, maybe there wouldn’t be an invasion.
The nature of the migration has changed dramatically as well, shifting from mostly single Mexican men seeking seasonal jobs to Central American families fleeing poverty, despair and endemic violence. Parents bringing children now comprise 60 percent of arrivals, more than ever before, and Border Patrol stations are so clogged that agents are releasing families directly into the U.S. interior instead of first sending them to detention.
“All of the stops and starts and casting about for solutions by the administration just have been reinforcing the patterns and contributing to the problem,” she added. “By creating chaos, the administration is creating excellent conditions for the smugglers to exploit.”
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