“Yes, we are in a crisis situation at the border — a humanitarian crisis, a refu­gee crisis. What Democrats are trying to deal with is: Is this an immigration crisis? The fact is we’re far closer to the lowest number of border apprehensions we’ve ever seen than the highest,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “That argument’s over,” Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said of the Democrats’ talking point. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, said the Trump administration has failed to present the full picture.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2019 09:56 UTC