INTERVIEW – MARK KRIKORIAN – Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

• February marked 12-year-high for illegal immigration: 76,000 encountered at southern border
• Washington Post: Border Rush May Hit 100,000 Migrants in March
• BORDER AT ‘BREAKING POINT’: (Fox News) – More than 76,000 people tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in February — a “remarkable” leap that more than doubles the number of border apprehensions during the same period of time last year, and is also the highest number of any February in the past 12 years, according to officials … The system is “well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters on Tuesday as the agency released the “record numbers.”
• Up to 15 GOP senators may vote against Trump emergency declaration. (The Hill) — Opposition to President Trump’s emergency border declaration is snowballing in the Senate, forcing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to scramble for a way to avoid a major embarrassment for the president. While McConnell has long viewed a resolution of disapproval backed by Democrats as likely to pass the Senate, support for the measure is growing. Some senators and aides say they think it could get as many as 15 Republican votes, which would put it in striking distance of a veto-proof majority.