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Command Consulting Group Principle and former Commisioner of Customs and Border Protection W. Ralph Basham was featured in a CBS News article on Wednesday discussing the increasing entry of unaccompanied children across the southern U.S. border. Legally, the United States cannot turn away many of the 52,000 children who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, and is required to care for them while they seek to place them with relatives or guardians within the United States as they await deportation proceedings.

Commissioner Basham believes this problem will ensue until a fundamental legislative change is made.

As long as the countries of origin and the families are willing to turn these children over to these folks we’re still going to have this problem. If we allow them in and continue to allow them in they’re going to continue to come.

To read the full article, please go to CBSNEWS