DHS: Loopholes Congress Needs to Close to Secure the Border

Department of Homeland Security and other officials tell Trump where legislation can help stem illegal immigration

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents monitor the Rio Grande on a boat between the Mexican city of Ciudad Miguel Aleman (far side) and the Texan city of Roma, on May 31, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

President Donald Trump sat with Homeland Security officials on Feb. 2 to hear about the biggest gaps in border security and how Congressional legislation can fix them. The roundtable was held at the Border Patrol National Targeting Center in Sterling, Virginia.

After a dramatic drop for several months following Trump’s inauguration, illegal border crossings have crept back up to beyond what they were in fiscal years 2013, 2014, and 2015, month for month.