The Washington Post wrote in 2014, “White House requests $3.7 billion in emergency funds for border crisis,” while CNN published a feature, “Daniel's journey: How thousands of children are creating a crisis in America.” It described a problem of "epic proportions." In June 2014, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell said that undocumented children flooding the border were “creating a crisis” for authorities. "This whole border security crisis … it really, I believe, is a manufactured crisis,” he said. Trump has repeatedly pointed out that Democrats used to support border security measures, including projects that included barriers -- though Obama did not push for an expansive and comprehensive border wall as Trump is. Schumer advocated for five times the funding for border security that included wall expansion less than five years ago.

Source: Fox News January 10, 2019 16:53 UTC