President Donald Trump’s tough enforcement of immigration laws could push illegal border crossings down to zero, a top Homeland Security official suggested on Friday.
“I do believe that with the right level of enforcement consequence, we can get there,” Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks told attendees at a Center for Immigration Studies event in Washington, D.C.
Border crossings have already tanked in the seven months since Trump took office. Banks outlined a number of changes pushed by the White House that could make numbers drop even further, including enforcing existing immigration laws, expanding federal and state partnerships, and working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the military to target those in the country without legal status.
In the wake of the top-down shift from Washington, there has
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