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Rare bit of bipartisanship in this current boiling political climate over the border (also an implicit critique of the WH): @SenGaryPeters @JohnCornyn introduce bill to address @CBP chronic staffing shortages as @DHSgov pulls officers from already strained ports of entry 1/ 
@SenGaryPeters @JohnCornyn @CBP @DHSgov As reported @latimes - despite Trump EOs 2 yrs ago to hire 15,000 ICE and Border Patrol, he faces vacancies instead lat.ms/2Whlivv - almost 4k CBP officers nationwide. CBP currently has 24,365 officers on board, but needs at least 27,187, per agency staffing model 2/
.@SecNielsen reassigns 750 CBP from POEs - potentially up to 2k - to help Border Patrol between POEs, slowing a trickle of processing at POEs despite directing asylum seekers there, & incentivizing more to cross illegally, worsening 'crisis' bit.ly/2NhATFE 3/
That intentional practice known as 'metering' is part of why as # of apprehensions at border has gone up dramatically - est.100k in March - # of inadmissibles, broadly, those arriving at POEs without a visa to enter U.S., has actually gone down: bit.ly/2mnbZsp 4/
(Not even considering the large number who cross between ports of entry and turn themselves in to, rather than evade, authorities in order to claim asylum, exercising their legal right per US law) 5/
Southern border POEs were already so overstretched last January, the administration pulled screeners from airports and reassigned them to southern Arizona, per @NickMiroff report here: wapo.st/2TSkr1Y 6/
Another interesting wrinkle to Nielsen's 15-months as DHS sec amid "meltdown" at the border (where she and Trump will be together this week, after he cancelled trip in Nov, saying he'd decided to fire her) - check out this and more in our profile today! lat.ms/2IaAN3u
