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dalton99a

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2. Something has got to be done.
Fri Oct 6, 2023, 09:52 PM
Oct 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/10/06/border-families-migrants-biden-chicago/
https://archive.ph/IWSFu

Biden border plan faces breakdown amid record influx of families
By Maria Sacchetti and Nick Miroff
October 6, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

CHICAGO — The border plan President Biden put in place nearly five months ago is at risk of collapse amid a new wave of illegal crossings, intensifying strains on U.S. cities and leaving authorities struggling to care for record numbers of families arriving with children.

U.S. agents along the southern border are making more than 9,000 arrests a day, a near record, including a fast-rising number of families, a group that is far more difficult for the government to manage than adults traveling solo.

More than 103,000 parents traveling with children crossed the southern border illegally in September, the highest number ever, according to preliminary government data obtained by The Washington Post.

The influx has left some migrant families sleeping on the streets, turning them into a landscape of the nation’s policy failures.

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