Thread by @JewhadiTM

“Manufactured crisis”

Border Patrol ‘overwhelmed’ by waves of migrant families hotair.com/archives/2019/…

The Border Patrol has become so overwhelmed in feeding and caring for the migrants that it announced plans this week to start releasing some families onto the street in the Rio Grande Valley to ease overcrowding in the processing center.

Immigrants have been given notices to appear at upcoming court dates (which they will, of course, miss).

“We have an unprecedented crisis upon us,” Robert Perez, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, said in an interview.

The Border Patrol says it made about 66,000 apprehensions of people crossing the border illegally in February, including 36,000 parents and children, an all-time monthly high.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, meanwhile, said since Dec. 21 it has released 107,000 family members while they await court dates.

Immigration authorities expect the number of parents and children to surpass 50,000 in March during the traditional spring spike in migration and potentially reach 180,000 in May.

This new reality at the border is not sitting well with Democrats who have invested a lot of time and energy into talking points denying a crisis is brewing at the border. But the evidence to the contrary keeps pouring in.