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Alan Bersin served as the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and assistant secretary and chief diplomatic officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Nate Bruggeman held senior policy positions at the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection from 2009 to 2012. He is a partner in the consulting firm BorderWorks Advisers.
Ben Rohrbaugh was the director for enforcement and border security at the National Security Council from 2014 to 2016. He also served in senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Donald Trump has made border security and immigration enforcement a rallying cry of his campaign and the centerpiece of his presidency. But now, as the effects of his immigration policies have become measurable, it is clear to us—three people who have worked on the issue in previous administrations—that Trump is the worst president for border security in the last 30 years.
Despite the administration’s attempts to shift blame for the chaos, make no mistake: It is Donald Trump himself who is responsible. Through misguided policies, political stunts and a failure of leadership, the president has created the conditions that allowed the asylum problem at the border to explode into a crisis. The solution to our current border troubles lies in reforming the U.S. asylum system and immigration courts and helping Central America address its challenges—not in a “big beautiful” wall or shutting down the border. Yet effective action on these issues has been missing. And the president has now so poisoned the political well with his approach that there is little hope of meaningful congressional action until after the next election. Unless the administration changes course, the immigration crisis will only continue to worsen.
Three paragraphs with ABSOLUTELY NO SUBSTANCE -- absolutely nothing about Trump's acts or omissions. What is wrong with you, wasting our time like that?
This doesn't take away from the good job many of our border and immigration enforcement officers are doing. Trump is unfortunately making worse for them, and Americans in general.
How can you say that?!!
Do you realize how many cities and states have heroin epidemics going on right now? How many lives have been taken or ruined thanks to these drugs...that just keep flowing in like clockwork?!!
The DEA even stated that 90% of the drugs COME THRU the border checkpoints, and NOT thru rough terrain, or unprotected areas...so if that is the case...they are doing a HORRIBLE job, ( or there is collusion), its one or the other, it cannot be both.
Do you realize how many cities and states have heroin epidemics going on right now? How many lives have been taken or ruined thanks to these drugs...that just keep flowing in like clockwork?!!
The DEA even stated that 90% of the drugs COME THRU the border checkpoints, and NOT thru rough terrain, or unprotected areas...so if that is the case...they are doing a HORRIBLE job, ( or there is collusion), its one or the other, it cannot be both.
You failed to properly read. He/She said many, not all. The reality is that many of them are doing a good job. There are issues that need to be fixed.
The state with the most deaths due to opioid usage is West Virginia... which has a death rate of 0.045% of their population per year (using 2017, specifically). Surely heroin is much smaller (being one of many opioids).
Six times as many people die from heart disease and diabetes combined. So if you're trying to combat preventable deaths, you better start fighting for treadmills to combat the lard crisis.
Alan Bersin served as the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and assistant secretary and chief diplomatic officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Nate Bruggeman held senior policy positions at the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection from 2009 to 2012. He is a partner in the consulting firm BorderWorks Advisers.
Ben Rohrbaugh was the director for enforcement and border security at the National Security Council from 2014 to 2016. He also served in senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Donald Trump has made border security and immigration enforcement a rallying cry of his campaign and the centerpiece of his presidency. But now, as the effects of his immigration policies have become measurable, it is clear to us—three people who have worked on the issue in previous administrations—that Trump is the worst president for border security in the last 30 years.
Despite the administration’s attempts to shift blame for the chaos, make no mistake: It is Donald Trump himself who is ressponsible. Through misguided policies, political stunts and a failure of leadership, the president has created the conditions that allowed the asylum problem at the border to explode into a crisis. The solution to our current border troubles lies in reforming the U.S. asylum system and immigration courts and helping Central America address its challenges—not in a “big beautiful” wall or shutting down the border. Yet effective action on these issues has been missing. And the president has now so poisoned the political well with his approach that there is little hope of meaningful congressional action until after the next election. Unless the administration changes course, the immigration crisis will only continue to worsen.
In fiscal year 2017, the last year of the Obama administration and the first of Trump’s, 303,916 migrants were arrested by the Border Patrol. This was the lowest level in more than three decades. The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations had worked hard to tackle the problem of illegal migration through substantial increases in border security staffing, improvements in technology, innovations in strategy and improved security coordination and assistance to Mexico. Coupled with improved economic conditions in Mexico, these administrations were hugely successful in deterring and breaking the cycle of illegal crossing: Unlawful Mexican economic immigration, which had historically been the primary immigration enforcement issue at the border, dropped nearly 90 percent between 2000 and 2016.
So Trump was right after all...well after he created the problem.
Thanks for your expertise. Build the wall, and build it tall. We have enough of these low-educated third worlders.
We don't need sombrero makers----we need engineers.
No more entries from ANYWHERE until these invaders are turned around.
Three paragraphs with ABSOLUTELY NO SUBSTANCE -- absolutely nothing about Trump's acts or omissions. What is wrong with you, wasting our time like that?
How did I waste your time? I didn’t write the article you wasted YOUR time responding to it sounds like a personal problem.
Alan Bersin served as the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and assistant secretary and chief diplomatic officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Nate Bruggeman held senior policy positions at the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection from 2009 to 2012. He is a partner in the consulting firm BorderWorks Advisers.
Ben Rohrbaugh was the director for enforcement and border security at the National Security Council from 2014 to 2016. He also served in senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Donald Trump has made border security and immigration enforcement a rallying cry of his campaign and the centerpiece of his presidency. But now, as the effects of his immigration policies have become measurable, it is clear to us—three people who have worked on the issue in previous administrations—that Trump is the worst president for border security in the last 30 years.
Despite the administration’s attempts to shift blame for the chaos, make no mistake: It is Donald Trump himself who is responsible. Through misguided policies, political stunts and a failure of leadership, the president has created the conditions that allowed the asylum problem at the border to explode into a crisis. The solution to our current border troubles lies in reforming the U.S. asylum system and immigration courts and helping Central America address its challenges—not in a “big beautiful” wall or shutting down the border. Yet effective action on these issues has been missing. And the president has now so poisoned the political well with his approach that there is little hope of meaningful congressional action until after the next election. Unless the administration changes course, the immigration crisis will only continue to worsen.
In fiscal year 2017, the last year of the Obama administration and the first of Trump’s, 303,916 migrants were arrested by the Border Patrol. This was the lowest level in more than three decades. The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations had worked hard to tackle the problem of illegal migration through substantial increases in border security staffing, improvements in technology, innovations in strategy and improved security coordination and assistance to Mexico. Coupled with improved economic conditions in Mexico, these administrations were hugely successful in deterring and breaking the cycle of illegal crossing: Unlawful Mexican economic immigration, which had historically been the primary immigration enforcement issue at the border, dropped nearly 90 percent between 2000 and 2016.
So Trump was right after all...well after he created the problem.
ALL the people you named were OBAMA people. No surprise they don't support Trump.
Having said that even the past HEAD of Homeleand Security, the HEAD of the Border patrol and the HEAD ICE UNDER OBAMER AGREE there is a crisis at the border and NONE have said it is Trump's fault.
ALL the people you named were OBAMA people. No surprise they don't support Trump.
Having said that even the past HEAD of Homeleand Security, the HEAD of the Border patrol and the HEAD ICE UNDER OBAMER AGREE there is a crisis at the border and NONE have said it is Trump's fault.
I love how someone posts an article and they are attacked as they wrote it.
Yet for YEARS there was no Crisis at the border until Trump came into office.
Just because your preferred choice of progressive news wasn’t reporting on it doesn’t mean there hasn’t been an ongoing problem.
Your narcissism is staggering, OP. You believe that you’re the gold standard of knowledge, and that if you weren’t aware of a problem it didn’t exist.
Now that progressives are slowly coming to the reality side on this issue, they want to blame Trump. How refreshing.
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