Arrests on US-Mexico border spike as critics warn Trump approach to security ‘encourages illegal migration’

In announcing the new data, US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said that the US immigration system is facing considerable obstacles. “The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” Mr McAleenan said. Many of the migrants have been turning themselves in at Border Patrol stations hours away from major ports of entry, forced into the deserts by Trump administration policies that critics say has helped to create the crisis that the president is now using to justify an emergency declaration to build out walls and fences along the border.

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