INTERVIEW – MARK KRIKORIAN –  a nationally recognized expert on immigration issues, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)    @MarkSKrikorian – analyzed the caravan on the border.

• Nearly 200 caravan migrants to seek asylum, in direct challenge to Trump administration via @foxnews // Almost 200 migrants parked at the nation’s busiest border crossing are planning to seek asylum in the U.S. following their dramatic journey in a caravan through Mexico, setting up a showdown with the Trump administration over immigration and asylum policy. Eight women and children entered a border facility on Monday to formally file asylum papers, with the rest to follow soon, organizers said. Immigration officials confirmed the facility had begun “processing undocumented arrivals again.” The caravan, which reached the border with San Diego after an approximately 2,000-mile trip, once included more than a thousand people. It is now down to a few hundred. The migrants’ decision to seek asylum comes just one day after U.S. officials closed the border facility there because it was at capacity.