{"id":398449,"date":"2019-03-07T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/one-million-illegal-immigrants-expected-at-border-this-year\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:44:30","slug":"one-million-illegal-immigrants-expected-at-border-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/one-million-illegal-immigrants-expected-at-border-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE MILLION Illegal Immigrants Expected At Border This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Chain of human misery is truly an emergency\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>March 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before Congress Wednesday, warning that close to a million illegal immigrants are expected to attempt to cross the border into the US in 2019 alone, making the situation \u201ctruly an emergency.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nielsen told the House Committee on Homeland Security that there is a \u201creal serious and sustained crisis at our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake, this chain of human misery is getting worse.\u201d Nielsen said, adding that \u201cthe numbers of apprehension at our southern border have spiked again substantially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince late last year, we have been seeing 50,000 to 60,000 migrants arrive at our southern border each month. But in February, we saw a 30 percent jump over the previous month, with agents apprehending or encountering nearly 75,000 aliens. This is an 80 percent increase over the same time last year.\u201d Nielsen explained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8E7lE1xzl8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Secretary warned that the numbers \u201cwill overwhelm the system entirely\u201d by the Summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe projections are dire,\u201d she said. \u201cThe agency is now on track to apprehend more migrants crossing illegally in the first six months of this fiscal year than the entirety of [fiscal year 2017]. And at the current pace, we are on track to encounter close to one million illegal aliens at our southern border this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary\u2019s comments come in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/05\/illegal-immigration-under-trump-projected-to-surpass-obama-era-levels\/\">estimations<\/a> that the U.S. is projected to see a level of illegal immigration this year that will surpass every year of illegal immigration under the Obama presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a coalition of Republican and Democrat Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/05\/gop-democrats-lobby-import-twice-as-many-low-skilled-foreign-workers\/\">is lobbying Nielsen<\/a> to more than double the number of low-skilled foreign workers that businesses can import to take blue-collar American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is coming under increasing criticism regarding foreign workers after he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/dhs-secretary-border-one-million-illegal-immigrants-expected-at-border-this-year.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Chain of human misery is truly an emergency\u2019 Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMarch 7, 2019 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before Congress Wednesday, warning that close to a million illegal immigrants are expected to attempt to cross the border into the US in 2019 alone, making the situation \u201ctruly an emergency.\u201d Nielsen told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}