This past weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Carla Provost announced that since the beginning of the year more than 4,000 illegal aliens with serious criminal records have been arrested by agents working along the southern border with Mexico.
This fiscal year through August, Border Patrol agents have encountered and arrested 4010 criminal aliens that had prior criminal convictions. Agents have arrested 3,842 criminal aliens with outstanding wants or warrants. pic.twitter.com/2gQz9yakpy
— USBPChief (@USBPChief) September 15, 2019
This fiscal year through August, Border Patrol agents have encountered & arrested 933 criminal gang members. Some smuggling, some being smuggled, some sneaking in, and some already here. A few:
MS-13: 445
18th Street: 165
Paisas: 82
Surenos: 68
Latin Kings: 21
Tango Blast: 19 pic.twitter.com/LVj8gka4dm— USBPChief (@USBPChief) September 13, 2019
CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez said during an interview with Fox News last week.
Perez: “We’re still in a crisis. It’s still both border security and humanitarian by virtue of what we are seeing, even last month. Our colleagues in immigration and customs enforcement, they are the primary agency charged with longer-term detention. We at customs and border protection, and particularly the border patrol, both at our ports of entry and at those stations, are really short-term holding facilities. As everybody knows, over the course of the summer they became absolutely oversaturated. These are facilities that were never meant to hold people long-term.”
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“Congress just got back in town. It is time for them to get to work with us to find lasting solutions to this ongoing challengeWhat I can tell you by virtue of nearly 27 years of experience and being a career law enforcement professionals is this: it’s that the challenges and the loopholes to the legal framework that have been fueling first the border security crisis that evolved into a humanitarian crisis have been present through several administrations. Not just the last two – in some cases even beyond that.”
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It always seems strange that they call them “border apprehensions” without giving any context, like what fraction of attempts that represents. When they say “apprehensions are down” it’s hard to know if that means fewer people are trying (this feels like the default, but it’s never 100 percent clear) or if the border guards aren’t doing as good a job. I doubt the latter and have great respect for the guards. It’s just the way it’s reported that bugs me.
Progress is progress. Let’s reduce illegal immigration while more of the wall is constructed.
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The more the numbers are reduced and the more illegally crossing is dissuaded and NOT encouraged; eventually, things will erode. I mean, these countries are only so populated, there can only be SO MANY people that want to come, and are convinced to make the trip.
The harder the trip seems, the harder it becomes to get in, the fewer people come. The fewer people who successfully cross and gain the benefits, the fewer people feel like they should do it.
If the trip and steps to make it here seem too long, too difficult, and the risk does not seem worth it, fewer will come. Simple as that.
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