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“In February, we saw a 30 percent jump over the previous month, with agents apprehending or encountering nearly 75,000 aliens,” Nielsen told the House Committee on Homeland Security. “This is an 80 percent increase over the same time last year. And I can report today that CBP is forecasting the problem will get even worse this spring as the weather warms up.”

If this continues and we get swamped with aliens we will be hearing "I told you so" at the next election.

According to the data released Wednesday, the number of family units arriving at the border has increased 338 percent since the previous fiscal year while the number of unaccompanied minors rose by 58 percent.

Democrats are going to look like complete idiots in 2 years.

Since the beginning of the fiscal year, CPB has apprehended 268,000 such immigrants at the border, an average of nearly 2,000 per day and the highest rate since 2007.

Democrats are in a terrible situation. If they refuse to listen to this testimony and we have a full blown crisis like Europe they will appear to all to be the problem. If on the other hand they do listen to this testimony and agree to a national emergency they get blamed for the shutdown.

“Our capacity is already severely strained, but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely,” Nielsen said. “This is not a ‘manufactured’ crisis. This is truly an emergency.”

Wow, if the Democrats stop Trump they will completely own any crisis. On the other hand if they concede there is a national emergency they look like complete jerks.

268,000 illegal aliens. A serious fence would certainly make the job of apprehending them easier and save manpower for things like Cartels and drugs. How many man hours does it take to round up, detain, and process 268,000 people?

Since 2000 the number of illegals entering the country has steadily dropped (until recently). However, the overall total of illegals in the country is close to an all time high of 12 million. So the size of the problem is as big as it has ever been. Most people think the cause of the problem is that there is little or no penalty for employers employing illegal aliens. However, from an enforcement standpoint it may be more practical to make it much harder to cross the border illegally so that once illegals are sent back (primarily for committing felonies) they can't return. Although the majority of illegals are not felons, they are also not the main issue. The main issue would be illegals who are felons, especially those in gangs.