Article snippet: Mulvaney said: Mulvaney blamed Democrats for the impending closures and suggested the president has no choice, despite rising pushback by business: “Congress can fix the problem of immigration they failed to fix,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told Fox News Sunday. “We are in a meltdown. We are at the breaking point,” she added. “Congress must act … and we need to send a message back to these countries too.” The statements follow a Friday threat by Trump to close the border: Roughly 100,000 migrants are expected to legally turn themselves in at the border this month — including perhaps 50,000 youths and children — while many additional migrant men are expected to illegally slip past guards and then reach blue-collar jobs in U.S. cities. By October, border officials fear that one million migrants will accept Washington’s tacit invitation to live and work in the United States. The tacit invitation is the refusal by the establishment in Washington — including GOP leaders — and by progressive judges to shut or even narrow the various loopholes in the border. The loopholes allow migrants to be released to get jobs once they ask for asylum — even when they have little chance of winning asylum and even when they tell border officials that they are migrating in search of jobs. Five million Central Americans may accept the establishment’s invite in 2019, according to data in a 2018 Gallup survey. Democrats are so determined to preserve the loopholes that they des... Link to the full article to read more