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US-Mexico border situation a ‘growing crisis’: Trump
WASHINGTON, Jan 9, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The situation along the US border with
Mexico is a “growing crisis,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday, stressing
that uncontrolled illegal immigration is hurting millions of Americans.
“There is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern
border,” the president said in a rare live Oval Office address to the nation,
adding that every day US Customs and Border Patrol agents “encounter
thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country.”
Trump repeated his call for a wall on the border, calling it “absolutely
critical to border security.”
BSS/AFP/MSY/0830 hrs