From the New York Times are Michael They did it. The president plans to address the nations about what he called the humanitarian and national security crisis on our southern border. Is there it's Tuesday January, as we speak, we're in the middle of an unprecedented crisis on our southern border. The agents spawning grounds is the worst they ve ever seen and that the american people are being told the truth about what's happening. But few people know the truth, because you're here ever since he was a cannon

President Trump has described a crisis at the southwest border, so severe that the country is teetering on the edge of imminent do drugs or draw Charles across the board. This crisis, is putting enormous stress or near schools, hospitals, you're jobs and your wages. You know You know that I mean everybody knows in the president's mind and in his words we have a crisis illegal immigration, have that's an invasion, that's not that's an invasion an invasion of criminals, terrorists and rapists? who are invading the country they bring in drugs, they bring in crime there rabies in particular heat. About the safety of women who are at risk of rape. We have some embrace here and we're gonna get him out by bad.

Embrace and taken your jobs, and you better be careful. You better be careful putting economy at risk by stealing Americans jobs. Caitlin Dickerson covers immigrants. For the times and its also grown? So now, when the president describes this crisis, he doesn't just talk about illegal immigration. He talks about kind of anybody whose crossing the border for any reason at all. All of it is a crisis he says, and the only way to stop this crisis that he does crimes, is by building a wall,

and how much of this corner crisis that he is describing is real, accurate, true, so at the risk of oversimplifying. None of it is true that just to be clear, there's no significant body of research to back up any of these ideas, even though we hear them repeated all the time, for example, Illegal immigration is decreasing and it has been for several years and in fact, the majority of new illegal immigrants every year they come and they overstay visa. So there actually being welcomed in

the United States in a legal way, and then they don't leave when they're supposed to, and the list goes on, whether we're talking about crime or we're talking about the economy. There's just no evidence to support that immigrants or illegal immigrants are making those problems worse. So this notion that a sea of people are illegally crossing the border from the South through Mexico in June, states and creating all of these problems. That is essentially a manufactured crisis. It's not real its false, however, all this time that the president has been talking about this crisis that doesn't exist. Something else has come up a very real problem and it has to do with illegal immigration process. People coming here to seek asylum. The world has been following the journey of that caravan of asylum seekers is immigrant caravans coming from Central America through months ago, estimates of the caravan sizes vary widely, but accordingly

mexican El Salvador and officials. They include about eight thousand people, a lot of people talk about there's a caravan coming in this area in Macao, and we see a caravan await their largely coming from Central America they're coming in much higher numbers than we ve seen in a very long time, and not only that, but their of an entirely different demographic background. There, largely women

children and the system there being funneled into here in the U S is not at all equipped to take care of them to hold them and how's them when they go through the immigration process. So what the president is talking about? Illegal immigration as a crisis, there is another problem emerging at the border of legal immigration surrounding asylum seekers. What does the trauma measures and do about that? They ve largely ignored it or denied it or Miss characterized it, and instead focused completely on this idea of deterrence of keeping out illegal immigrants. So their fully focused on coming up with new deterrent policies like family separation and the asylum ban, which were blocked by federal courts. He sent National Guard troops and army troops to the border

fortify existing barriers and put up concertina wire to keep out criminals. In the meantime, there doing nothing to address these families and doing nothing to modify, for example, the facilities that asylum seekers weight in and they're supposed to only be there a couple days, but sometimes there there much longer. These facilities aren't set up for children, and almost nothing has been done to change that and, as a result, this very real problem we talked about has gotten even worse and an. How exactly has this approach of cracking down on illegal immigration, even though there wasn't really much of a problem there? How is that made the problem of those seeking asylum exactly will first of all to children have died. The facility is like we said, are not at all set up to take care of children and its

Lucien, so not only are there, families piling up at the border by children are very sick, and then, on top of that there is this policy called Metering which we ve talked about, which means limiting the number of people who can come into the country and seek asylum each day. So, as a result, the families that used to show up at the border and be processed into the United States on the same day there actually waiting in Mexico, sometimes for weeks or for months and their basically live. In squalor, the conditions there waiting in are dirty. There is a lack of resources. There is a lack of clean water There's the lack of food and places to bathe in their illnesses are sort of incubating there in Mexico they're getting worse and then there finally led into the United States, where again were sort of unprepared to deal with them

Metering has also created more of a market for smuggling and its encourage people to come and the United States between ports of entry. This is something that the president has discouraged publicly, but when you know your options are to wait in line and perhaps get into the United States a few weeks or a few months and get sicker or to try to go round and and sneak into the United States with the help of a smuggler. A lot of people are taking that second round again the problem that's created by the president's attempt to thwart illegal immigration. So it sounds like when President Trump says that there is a serious crisis. The southern border he's right. It's just that it's of his own making and it involves asylum seekers rather than undocumented immigrants trying to illegally cross the border.

Exactly so. For example, last week I interviewed officials who work along the border in Arizona, and they told me about what's happening in Uma where actually, eighty seven percent of people who cross the border are travelling as part of a family. More than half of the total people who cross the border are children and people who run that port of entry have been asking for over a year for resources to build a new facility to take care of children, and you know, as one official put it, Nothing fancy it's basically more than the concrete cells. We have right now, there's something that would have beds and that would have showers, but those requests have gone ignored because all of the focus is on deterrents. None of it is on the real situation on the ground. The dire situation involving asylum seekers involving asylum see. Where's especially children. So in you, my you have kids who are sick, walking.

Round with mylar blankets and carrying around bottles of pity alight because they have the flu and their sleeping on concrete. So, in the face of a very specific request for resource detention facility, as you said, to have children, the administration said no and is instead focusing still on deterring, basically anything it considers to be undocumented immigration. Southern border. Exactly what I'm being told by people who work in immigration policy is that they have won mission right now and it's to come up with new ways to discourage people from coming United States, with really no attention being paid to what's actually happening right now, along the border of Europe, Our work is giving one million dollars and talent grants to business is working to count

the ongoing impacts of cuban nineteen as the world's largest network of remote professionals, their connecting existing teams with remote experts in tech, creative and operations in an effort to help save lives and rebuild the economy to learn more good upward dot com, slash work together. The president is going to address the nation tomorrow night to discuss what he calls the national security crisis at the? U S, Mexico Border Donald Trouble, travel

the southern border. On Thursday, to meet with those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis, more details will be announced soon. It's not sure what format that will come in and who can the president announced on Monday that he will be addressing the country on Tuesday night about this crisis at the border ass? He called it and hill then travel to the border on Thursday to do the same thing, given everything that you have told us, which crisis do believe he will be pointing to and discussing when he makes, both of these speeches, I think, based on what we ve seen in heard from the president in the past, he'll, be very unlikely to make any distinction at all so coming. United States illegally and seeking asylum couldn't be more different, but I think, instead of making that point, and instead of

challenging the ways in which the policies and ideas that he's come up with so far haven't really addressed, what's actually happening on the ground, he's going to combine it all together and point to these very real and very powerful images of children, sleeping on concrete, slabs, perhaps or we've got large numbers of people who are I'm done too tight spaces. He might find a part of the wall where there's a ladder where people are climbing over any other sort of combine at all into one big general immigration crisis unless he can stop it by building his walk. So clearly, the President things that the solution to what he is characterizing, as is generalised crisis, that combines undocumented immigrants crossing the border and the issue of those seeking asylum, is to build the wall. But Congress does not support that, which is why we have a shut down. So what would be accomplished?

could be accomplished by the present making a case in a prime time speech, as he plans to do and then visiting the border. He could sell the country on this idea. He could sell his base in particular, and he could convince them to put pressure on their elected officials either to reopen the government or to support the idea of a national emergency. We good girl, a national emergency because of the security country. Absolutely no. We can do it. I haven't done it, I may do it, I may do it, but we could call a national emergency and build it very quickly and some other way of doing it. And what is actually would that look like the president declaring ass. He talked about a national emergency. What if he did that he would have access to the fund that he needs and access to the military to begin build. This wall, and he would actually be able to point to a concrete accomplishment. His really has central campaign promise. The problem is that there

Our rules. There is a federal law attached to this idea of an emergency and if he doesn't make the case strong enough, he'll be challenged in court and again, if there isn't enough ever to support this idea of a real national emergency very quickly. Those funds are gonna, be taken away from him in the form of accord injunction very important, rattled away from the standpoint of save the number one defining our country. We are also on the voyage of dollars. This war will fight for itself many times during the course of a year. The money which argued about is very small compared to the return you think I like doing this. I d like to do this, but we have no choice. We have that so important reason why he will be giving the speech in visiting the border is to make a case directly to the voters and around Congress that there actually is a crisis that

is a national emergency exactly in many ways. This is from doing what trump does he doesn't follow the rules? He doesn't follow the template of how Washington works. He kind of does things his own way and he tossed directly to his base and that's what he seeking to do now and if it succeeds in doing this, he could end up getting his wall built through a national emergency declaration and he will have done it without the approval of Congress, its Possum, he could do that to the end, is confessing. The president might be able to make the case successfully to american public that there is a real crisis at the border, because in fact, at this point there is one it's just

he played a major role in creating an that's right. I mean, let's be clear, there are so a lot of hoops. The president will have to jump through. The administration would have to jump through to get this wall built, but the really Queried surprising surprises me as much as anybody else thing about all this. Is that yes, well he's been talking about this crisis? That doesn't it

real one emerged, one that he actually made worse and somehow that's bolstering. This argument has been making since twenty six February. Thank you. Prison term is scheduled to deliver his speech about the situation that the board at nine p m tonight from the oval office and has asked all the major tv news to pre empt their prime time line to carry his address years. What else you need to know

on Monday in an attempt to limit the fall out from the government shut. The Trump administration directed the Irish to pay federal tax refunds to millions of Americans. Despite the fact that the agency has lost its funding under previous shut down, the IRA has been prohibited from issuing refunds, but this time the White House is ordering irish workers to return to work for the specific purpose of issuing a refund. Despite that order, the times reports that the Irish employs issuing the refunds will not be paid for their work until the shot down is all

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