A "daily caravan" of immigrants is entering the United States and posing dangers, White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp said Friday.
"What we're seeing right now is you are having this influx of illegal aliens," Schlapp told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "You are talking about 1,000 to 2,000 illegal aliens crossing our border daily. I mean, we are talking about a daily caravan coming into America."
Then there is the larger caravan heading through Mexico, "where they documented about 270 criminals," she added. "Part of that caravan is putting women and children on the front line, and they are coming to our country as well. That is serious, and we are not going to allow them to come and invade our country...we will make sure that our men and women on the front lines are protected and that's why we are deploying troops to the border."
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is reviewing all options, including looking to finish an executive order on asylum rules, said Schlapp.
"There is this crisis on the border," she said. "There has been abuse in our asylum system. Before it used to be one in 100 individuals who would come over and seek asylum. Now it's one in 10. Literally they are told as these illegal aliens are trying to come through the border to use two words. Credible fear.
This has put the asylum process into a backlog of "700,000 basically," she said.
"I will tell you my father came here from Cuba," Schlapp said. "He was politically persecuted. He sought asylum. He followed the rules."
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