Shutting down southern U.S. ports of entry would cut off bilateral trade and tourism and wreak economic havoc, experts said.
By David Nakamura , David Nakamura Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow Maria Sacchetti and Maria Sacchetti Reporter covering immigrant communities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Email Bio Follow Nick Miroff Nick Miroff Reporter covering immigration enforcement, drug trafficking and national security Email Bio Follow April 1 at 7:14 PM President Trump summoned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen back from a conference in Europe on Monday as the White House...
Moving ahead with a plan announced last week, Nielsen issued written orders to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deploy “emergency surge operations” to the southern border and dramatically expand a program that requires migrants to wait in Mexico as they apply for asylum in the United States. Central American migrants wait for food in El Paso on Wednesday in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of families and unaccompanied minors. “The crisis at our border is worsening, and DHS will do everything in its power to end it,” Nielsen said in a statement. “We will immediately redeploy hundreds of CBP personnel to the border to respond to this emergency.
People cross into the United States on Monday at the San Ysidro port of entry, in Tijuana, Mexico. Theresa C. Brown, a former DHS policy official in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, called the situation unprecedented, given the record number of Central American families that have crossed the border in recent months. She noted that border port closings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks caused widespread harm to the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The Trump administration is urging Congress to increase its power to detain and deport Central American families and minors. Officials say those seeking asylum are virtually guaranteed release into the United States because of limited detention space and the massive immigration court backlog. Operationally, closing ports might be reasonably easy to do, officials said. Many of the ports shut down overnight and reopen each morning, so halting the flow of cargo, cars and pedestrians would involve little more than leaving the vehicle lanes closed and reinforcing them with additional officers and personnel.
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