Democrats Oppose Sealing Border-Law Loopholes

“One in five Dreamers live in the borderlands; to further militarize the region with more harmful walls or hiring unaccountable border agents would be to threaten the lives and well-being of millions of people,” said Andrea Guerrero, a co-chair of the Southern Border Communities Coalition.

to further militarize the region with more harmful walls or hiring unaccountable border agents would be to threaten the lives and well-being of millions of people.

So far, none of the Democratic immigration proposals include any reforms to shrink or close the border loopholes.

In just over two years, federal law forced immigration officials released more than 100,000 UACs into the U.S., according to the White House.

In Fiscal Year 2016, Border Patrol agents apprehended 52,147 UACs.