Illinois' senior U.S. senator acknowledges there's a problem at the southern U.S. border and says there are no negotiations to slow the flow with the three main countries that migrants are fleeing.
Illinois Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin acknowledged there is a problem with border security, in particular with foreign nationals from three countries not controlling their migrant flow.
"We don't have a solid relationship with the governments of those countries and so there is no negotiation to try and slow down the flow."
While Illinois National Guard troops continue their support of the federal Southwest Border Security mission, they also continue assisting a separate state mission to receive migrants in Chicago.
"We need an orderly process at the border," Durbin said.
Republicans blame the increase of migrant flows on the Biden administration's reversal of some border control policies put in place by former President Donald Trump.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows an increase of total southwest land border encounters jumped from around 458,000 in 2020 to 1.7 million in 2021, the first year of Biden's term.
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