re: Can someone Explain to me how they came up with 5000 per day

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OK. Under the new proposed legislation (which is not part of current law), if 5,000 in a single day appear at border crossings or in encounters at locations other than border crossings, that triggers a complete shutdown of the border. Such a shut down trigger does not currently exist in US law. Most days we see significantly more than 5,000 people. In the bipartisan legislation, they considered a 5,000 trigger to be necessary to signal a crisis that would justify the complete shutdown of the US border. But now republicans don't want any shutdown. There is no shutdown trigger in US law now.

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The problem with setting the number at 5,000 is the cartel coyotes will bring them to the border at a number just under the threshold.

5,000 “closes the border”.

4,999 doesn’t.

The number doesn’t need to be 5,000, 10,000, or 250.

It needs to be zero