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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House Claims Trump Has 'Little Choice' But To Close The Border
By Kate Riga
April 2, 2019 10:47 am
White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp took to CNN to defend President Donald Trumps threat to shut down the border, which critics say is as inhumane as it is economically unwise.
Were being left with no choice, little choice at this point in terms of what were going to do with our resources, Schlapp told CNNs Jim Sciutto. What has had to happen is we had to move our border patrol agents about 750 of them from the ports of entry into the other areas of the border where were seeing a huge surge coming from illegal aliens, family units, who are crossing the border. So in essence, there is a crisis.
Per Politico, many in Trumps own administration dont want the border shut down and are hoping for a last-minute legislative fix that would satiate the President.
Here is a good rundown of whats actually happening at the border. Crossings are not at anywhere near an all-time high, but more families are coming over than have before, creating a new subset of needs.
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White House Claims Trump Has 'Little Choice' But To Close The Border (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2019
OP
Desperate for a crisis/distraction, that is the "little choice but to" they are facing
RockRaven
Apr 2019
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greymattermom
(5,754 posts)1. Good bye to American car factories.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)2. Desperate for a crisis/distraction, that is the "little choice but to" they are facing
Otherwise people will be paying attention to Mueller's report, the Saudi nuclear proliferation, or the economic catastrophe being caused by Trump's trade policies.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. As time continues with these fucked up Republicans, I
see a pattern here. They want to destroy the fabric of the Unites States of America's democracy.