The time for talking is over as far as President Donald trump is concerned.
The president has announced that he will make a major announcement on Saturday regarding the Southern border.
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This has many believing he will declare a national emergency to build the wall.
“I will be making a major announcement concerning the Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border, and the Shutdown, tomorrow afternoon at 3 P.M., live from the @WhiteHouse,” he said.
I will be making a major announcement concerning the Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border, and the Shutdown, tomorrow afternoon at 3 P.M., live from the @WhiteHouse.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2019
This news comes after it was reported that the largest group ever crossed the border this week.
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A group said to be the largest group of illegal immigrants to ever cross the border at one time as entered the United States.
They tunneled under a border fence and then immediately requested asylum, exploiting a loophole in the law.
And because the majority of them are family units they have to, by law, be released into the United States, The Daily Mail reported.
A group of migrants said to be the largest ever has illegally tunneled under the southern U.S. border fence and surrendered to Border Patrol to request asylum.
The group of 376 Central Americans ‘inundated agents’ after crossing the border through a series of hasty tunnels near Yuma, Arizona on Monday, Customs and Border Protection said.
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The agency said 200 of the group were minors, and that nearly all the rest said they were their parents, meaning that they will likely be released into the U.S. as their asylum claims are processed.
It is believed to be the largest single group to cross the border illegally to request asylum. The Border Patrol has said that smugglers transport large groups to the border and then instruct them to cross and turn themselves in.
Officials said that most of the group entered the U.S. through seven small openings burrowed under the border barrier.
The crossings took place at a remote stretch of border where old fencing is about 12 feet high and the ground is sandy. Stretched thin, CBP has only three agents patrolling the 26-mile section of border.
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President Donald Trump’s administration had tried to forbid migrants from requesting asylum after crossing the border illegally, but that move was struck down by a federal judge in November.
‘The only thing that solves that problem is a change in the law,’ CBP Yuma Border Sector Chief Anthony Porvaznik told ABC News.
‘The only reason they’re trying to say that they’re family units is that they know if they’re a family unit, they’re going to be released within 20 days,’ Porvaznik said.
Porvaznik said that he had worked for CBP for 30 years and had never been part of an arrest of a group as large as the one on Monday.
He said that 87 percent of the apprehensions in Yuma Sector are family units and unaccompanied alien children
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By Thursday, hundreds of the asylum seekers were being held in cinderblock cells with thick glass windows as CBP agents worked to process them and provide humanitarian needs, ABC reported.
The asylum seekers were separated into cells: fathers with sons, fathers with daughters, unaccompanied minors and mothers with children.
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