ARI­ZONA — Even as the Caribbean con­tin­ues to grap­ple with il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, Unit­ed States se­nior ad­vis­er and for­mer jour­nal­ist CJ Kara­mar­gin has con­firmed the US is strength­en­ing and ex­pand­ing sec­tions of its bor­der wall to curb il­le­gal mi­gra­tion, while al­so main­tain­ing sys­tems to care for mi­grants and ad­dress hu­man­i­tar­i­an needs.

Kara­mar­gin, a se­nior ad­vis­er to Re­pub­li­can Con­gress­man Juan Cis­co­mani for Ari­zona’s 6th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, spoke to re­porters at a For­eign Press Cen­tre brief­ing held in Ari­zona, where a team of 13 jour­nal­ists are par­tic­i­pat­ing in a re­port­ing tour or­gan­ised by the US De­part­ment of State.

Kara­mar­gin spoke on the role of Con­gress in se­cur­ing the US south­ern bor­der. He said the ad­min­is­tra­tion of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump had sig­nif­i­cant­ly al­tered con­di­tions along the U.S.-Mex­i­co bor­der, adding stricter poli­cies had changed be­hav­iour among crim­i­nal net­works in­volved in mi­gra­tion.