“We do have a crisis at the border, but it’s a refugee crisis. Not a crisis of illegal crossings,” the former senior DHS official said.
As President Donald Trump prepares to reveal his latest plan to address the surge of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a former Homeland Security official has said the U.S. leader's policies are only seeing billions of dollars"burned" and"flushed down the toilet" for the "vanity project of an egomaniac."
"Putting up a wall isn't going to do anything," the former official said."People are still going to come to the wall and turn themselves in at the wall." By push factors, the former DHS official was referring to the driving forces"pushing" asylum seekers to flee their home countries. The issue is one that current DHS chief Kevin McAleenan acknowledged in December, when he was still serving as commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
"We're four years into supporting the Alliance for Prosperity with investment in Central America—over $2 billion set aside by Congress. A lot of that is in the process of being deployed," McAleenan said in December.
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