The White House • June 26, 2019

Suddenly, Democrats say there is a border crisis On February 15, President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency to address the security and humanitarian crisis on our southern border. That month, more than 40,000 alien families arrived—an unprecedented surge that America’s outdated and overstretched immigration system is ill-equipped to handle. Something to share: 26 times they called the border crisis fake news Congressional Democrats were swift and nearly unanimous in their response, asWashington Examiner columnist Byron York detailed today: “A fake crisis at the border,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed.   “A crisis that does not exist,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.   “There is no crisis at the border,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declared. The media was quick to endorse that narrative. Morning Joe deemed the emergency “an imaginary border crisis.” The Washington Post editorial board called it “make-believe.” The New York Times “fact-checked” the President’s claim of a border crisis and reported it false—before contradicting themselves two paragraphs later. How times change. “This nation is facing a humanitarian crisis at the southern border,” House Democrats tweeted today. Don’t mistake that for an admission of fault. They make clear the problem isn’t Congress’ years of refusal to fix America’s broken immigration system. Their culprit is U.S. law enforcement, whose officers are guilty of running “concentration camps” for illegal immigrants, as one freshman Congresswoman put it. President Trump has requested $4.5 billion in emergency aid—$3.3 billion of it marked for humanitarian assistance—to help law enforcement address the historic surge in large migrant groups arriving at our southern border. Congress has yet to pass it. Just as crucial, the only long-term solution to this humanitarian crisis is for Congress to close the catch-and-release loopholes that fuel child smuggling into the United States. As long as children can be used to evade our laws, they'll continue to be put in danger. So far, Democrats have resisted every single effort to shut off the magnets for child smuggling. “Fixing the laws would solve everything,” President Trump said today. “And they could do it so quickly. It’s so simple,” he added. “They know what to do. They just don’t want to do it.” Watch: President Trump says “Democrats are solely responsible” for this crisis. More: Top 5 border falsehoods pushed by Congressional Democrats and the media