On immigrant surge, White House story falls apart

At any other time, the growing crisis on the Mexican border, with tens of thousands of unaccompanied young people crossing illegally into theUnited States, might dominate the news. Yet the situation has received less attention than it might amid the furor over House Majority LeaderEric Cantor's primary defeat, the collapse of Iraq, the continuingBergdahl matter, and Hillary Clinton's book tour. They're all genuinely important news stories, and they've crowded out disaster at the border.

But whether or not many people noticed, this was the week in which the Obama administration's attempts to deflect blame for the border crisis fell apart.

Most of the illegal immigrants are what Border Patrol officials call OTMs. That is, while they are crossing into the United States from Mexico, they are actually from other countries -- in this case, mostly Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador -- and are classified as Other Than Mexican immigrants.

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