What Is the “Border Crisis”? A Snowstorm, Humanitarian Aid, and the Border Bill

After a week of constant media buzz about the “border crisis” and an enforcement-heavy border bill, a freezing snowstorm reveals the true crisis.

Asylum seekers walk along the border wall near Sasabe in 34-degree weather after snowfall on February 10. (Photo credit: David Damian Figueroa)

It was early Saturday when humanitarian aid volunteers arrived to the U.S.-Mexico border near the small border town of Sasabe, Arizona. The snow, sleet, wind, and rain had started overnight, and by the time peopl…