Race is on! Thousands run for border before Trump sworn in

People from around the world are making a run for border – the U.S. border – and many see it as an eleventh-hour effort to gain permanent asylum in America before the doors close, or at least get significantly tightened up, under the forthcoming presidency of Donald Trump.

But time is running out. They now have 47 days to make it to America under the open-arms policy of President Barack Obama.

The Department of Homeland Security reported on Nov. 10 that immigration detention facilities are already overflowing and now there’s a new surge that has been growing since August.

 

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