Immigration News Keeps Coming in in the Time of Trump
It has been two-and-a-half years of the Trump presidency and it still is hard to keep up on the immigration news. The President unquestionably has focused on immigration like no other modern President.
Just this week, immigration stories have been in the headlines — even separate and apart from House passage of the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019. Indeed, it is difficult to watch a national news cast and not see a story about immigration.
Here are just a few:
US-Mexico negotiators fail to reach a deal on tariffs, immigration; Trump says talks will continue
Border arrests skyrocket in May, as officials declare ‘full-blown emergency’
In this last story, Fox News reports that the number of migrants apprehended at the U.S./Mexico border increased in May to levels not seen in over a decade, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection reporting nearly 133,000 arrests in May. The number surpassed 144,000 when counting migrants deemed inadmissible — more than a 30 percent increase from the prior month and double the number recorded at the beginning of the year. The number of apprehensions was the highest monthly total in more than 13 years. In April, authorities recorded 99,304 arrests.
Expect to see immigration in the news.
UPDATE (June 7): Dara Lind on Vox incisively analyzes the humanitarian crisis along the US/Mexico border.
KJ