Posted on 05/20/2009 11:09:05 AM PDT by faced
Chuck Schumer said that the number of people captured between Oct. 1, 2008 and May 15 this year was down 27 percent from the same period the previous year.
Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer cited reports from the Customs and Border Protection officials saying that most of the decrease has been in the number of people taken into custody as they tried to illegally enter the U.S. along the border with Mexico.
The New York senator said the lower demand for labor in the U.S. and stepped-up border enforcement measures are behind the decrease.
"The border is far more secure than it's ever been," Schumer said.
The Obama administration has promised to increase border security even more on the southern border to crack down on border violence and work with Mexican authorities against drug cartels. Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are being deployed to the Southwest.
<> Face Forward Comments:
I have to raise my hand on this on and call BS. I am pretty sure that this report is right up there with the reports that stated hundreds oops, no thousands of Mexican workers were going back across the border because of our poor economy and that 90% of the Mexican guns came from the US.
Note the phrase that Schumer uses, “take into custody”. If you tell the agents (ICE) that they cannot take people into custody and that you can no longer deport people found in raids......then sure the number drops. "The borders are far more secure than they have ever been",certainly he not making that statement based the false data he used, is he? As a hack for his party, you don't think he is trying to down play the illegal immigration problem so that amnesty will be pushed through, do you? Or perhaps he is still responding to all of the criticism the administration took for not closing the border from the swine flu outbreak. No matter his reason, it is political spin at its worst.
Ys Chuckie they are not coming because there are NO JOBS!
If Schumer’s talkin’, I ain’t buyin’.
Chuck Shumer says:
“Grass is green” Nope. Don’t believe you.
“Sky is blue” Nope. Don’t believe you.
“Borders are safer” Nope. You must be out of your f’n mind!
I second the “I have to raise my hand on this on and call BS.”
Chuckie, how many individuals need to squirm through the Swiss cheese to reach the brass ring of Islamic Terrorism?
That's no comfort. Schumer is such a notorious liar.
Hell, I’m more afraid of Chuckie-baby than I am of any terrorist.
ping
There are fewer undocumented immigrants crossing our borders (Shumer) and more assault weapons entering Mexico from America (Clinton)....
Consequently, we should pass comprehensive immigration reform and a new assault weapons ban.
It became quite and then the debate on FR quickly devolved into taglines*
quite=quiet, as in deathly quiet
Yes.
Who is protecting us from Schumer?
Is it a game?
“Our borders are safer than,”
An atomic bomb set off in the middle of San Francisco?
“Our borders are safer than,”
Walking down K street at midnight wearing a thong and carrying a pound of hash?
“Our borders are safer than,”
Jumping off a 75 story building without a parachute?
Great game, Chuck.
So....
Wrecking our economy was the Obama administration’s answer to the illegal immigration problem?
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