FY 2003 Border Patrol Southwest Border Apprehensions

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[Marine Inspector]

FY 2003 Southwest Border Apprehensions by the US Border Patrol
	California	Arizona	New Mexico	Texas	Totals
Country
Afghanistan	2	1			3
Albania			3	70	73
Algeria			1	2	3
Antigua - Barbuda				1	1
Argentina	27	17	5	56	105
Armenia	14		2	3	19
Australia		1		9	10
Austria			1		1
Bahamas	1				1
Bahrain				1	1
Bangladesh			2	11	13
Belarus				2	2
Belgium	1			2	3
Belize	13	1	1	23	38
Bolivia	15	5	4	17	41
Bosnia - Herzegovina				1	1
Botswana		1			1
Brazil	398	1,709	109	2,792	5,008
Bulgaria	4		2	5	11
Burma			5	5	10
Cambodia	1		1		2
Cameroon			2	1	3
Canada	10	2	2	12	26
Chile	7	7	5	46	65
China	109	31	10	136	286
Colombia	12	22	7	123	164
Costa Rica	9	100	5	54	168
Croatia	1			1	2
Cuba	11	22	13	44	90
Cyprus					0
Czech Republic	10		15	10	35
Czechoslovakia		2		5	7
Denmark				2	2
Dominican Republic		71	7	253	331
Ecuador	81	135	13	211	440
Egypt			1	6	7
El Salvador	752	1,188	209	7,198	9,347
Eritrea		1		2	3
Estonia				2	2
Ethiopia	2	3		4	9
France	2		4	7	13
Georgia			3	7	10
Germany	1		3	8	12
Ghana	1	2	2	6	11
Greece	1				1
Guatemala	543	1,530	396	4,489	6,958
Guinea				3	3
Guinea - Bissau			1		1
Guyana	1			14	15
Haiti	2	7	1	10	20
Honduras	344	818	243	12,436	13,841
Hungary	3	2	5	3	13
India	12	4	11	59	86
Indonesia	8	2	3	11	24
Iran	7	1	1	4	13
Iraq	4	1	1	2	8
Ireland	2	1	5	3	11
Israel	17	1	9	20	47
Italy	4	1	2	2	9
Ivory Coast				5	5
Jamaica	7	8	5	22	42
Japan	5		2	7	14
Jordan	3			11	14
Kazakhstan				1	1
Kenya	1	1		31	33
Korea, North		1			1
Korea, South	16	17	8	25	66
Kyrgyzstan			1		1
Laos		1	1	2	4
Latvia				2	2
Lebanon	3		2	6	11
Liberia	1			5	6
Lithuania		3	1	4	8
Macedonia				24	24
Malaysia		1	3	3	7
Mali				1	1
Mexico	202,559	396,373	47,356	219,561	865,849
Mongolia				2	2
Morocco	2		1	5	8
Nepal	1			3	4
Netherlands	1		1	4	6
New Zealand	2		1	1	4
Nicaragua	18	44	4	622	688
Nigeria	1	1	1	23	26
Norway	2			2	4
Pakistan	1		5	34	40
Panama	1	3	1	4	9
Paraguay		2	1	7	10
Peru	25	49	10	146	230
Philippines	24	2	8	24	58
Poland	13	112	6	19	150
Portugal	1				1
Qatar		2			2
Romania	3	1		10	14
Russia	5	2	4	11	22
Saudi Arabia				2	2
Senegal	1			2	3
Sierra Leon		1			1
Slovakia	12	1	1	1	15
Slovenia				1	1
Somalia		1			1
South Africa	1		1	6	8
Spain	4	2	1	4	11
Sri Lanka				3	3
St. Kitts - Nevis		1			1
St. Lucia				2	2
Sudan			1	3	4
Sweden			1		1
Syria			1		1
Taiwan	2		1	1	4
Tanzania				2	2
Thailand			1	2	3
The Gambia		1	3	2	6
Togo				1	1
Tonga				1	1
Trinidad and Tobago			1	4	5
Turkey	7		3	6	16
Uganda				2	2
Ukraine	9	2	1	5	17
United Kingdom	3	1	5	10	19
Uruguay	5	2		7	14
Uzbekistan				4	4
Venezuela	2	8	1	41	52
Vietnam	3	1	1	31	36
Western Sahara				3	3
Yemen	1	1		5	7
Yugoslavia	1	1	1	31	34
Zambia				2	2
Zimbabwe				2	2
Total	205,178	402,335	48,561	249,007	905,081
Total OTM's	2,619	5,962	1,205	29,446	39,232

[Marine Inspector]

Ping

[gubamyster]

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[Deguello]

Wow!

I didn't realize that we had that many varieties of Wetbacks.

[TomGuy]

Holiday Inn has allot of toilets that need cleaning.


Is the apprehends-to-non-apprehends still running 1 to 4?

[NRA2BFree]

Gee, you wouldn't know NM has a Mexican governor would you? He's been talking to Fox about increasing trade etc, between Mexico and NM. I guess lax security on the borders is part of their deal. </ sarcasm>

[NRA2BFree]

Ping!

[Amerigomag]

I find these stats not particularly valuable for comparative purposes for three reasons:

1) The increased enforcement presence along the California border has decreased the number of attempts and increased the rate of apprehensions.

2) The very recent increases in enforcement presence in Arizona (both government and civilian) reflects much higher than historical apprehension rates.

3) Apprehension rates are primarily reflective of law enforcement presence and a willingness to apprehend. These factors are changing constantly due to the ebb and flow of political forces.

Interesting for comparing the national origins of those dumb enough to get caught within a given time frame but generally questionable for estimating the rates of illegal immigration from year to year.

[WhiteGuy]

Nice work.

It's appreciated.

I'm going to forward this link to my congressman, and my state's 2 senators as well as the president and that dork ed gillespe.

If you want my support, PUT AMERICANS FIRST !

[KuernoDeChivo]

Last number I heard was 1 out of 5. It would be interesting to calculate the number of OTMs that are coming over from areas rich in terrorists. I have seen some reports of Al Qaeda types getting caught. The scary thing is that if the numbers hold true for every one of those they catch there are 4 or 5 more that have made it over.

I have always felt that our porous borders are and have been more of an imminent threat then Iraq ever was, but we keep sending all our resources and $$ over to the middle east.

[television is just wrong]

How many of those are actually deported?

[Deguello]

"still running 1 to 4? "

The swimmers are 0 to infinity. Once they make it to the north shore, they may be around 1:35.

[texastoo]

It looks like the US population is increasing 4 to 5 million a month. I'll bet the UN is happy.

[texastoo]

4 to 5 million a year. Still , I'll bet the UN is happy.

[First_Salute]

Thank you.

[Brownie74]

A thank you bump.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

BTTT

North Korea?

[Marine Inspector]

20%, if we are lucky.

[Marine Inspector]

1) The increased enforcement presence along the California border has decreased the number of attempts and increased the rate of apprehensions.

Actually, the increased enforcement has not only decreased the number of attempts, it has decreased the number of apprehensions.

2) The very recent increases in enforcement presence in Arizona (both government and civilian) reflects much higher than historical apprehension rates.

Arizona apprehensions are nowhere near historical rates. The increase in enforcement started years ago and the recent increase (about 50 agents) has had little or no effect yet.

3) Apprehension rates are primarily reflective of law enforcement presence and a willingness to apprehend. These factors are changing constantly due to the ebb and flow of political forces.

While true in most law enforcement careers, it is opposite in the Border Patrol. The Presence has always been low, while the willingness has always been high.

[Marine Inspector]

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[FITZ]

What accounts for the difference in OTM's coming over in Texas? It's interesting how Mexicans seem to prefer Arizona but Hondurans prefer Texas.

[Marine Inspector]

What accounts for the difference in OTM's coming over in Texas?

They probable have more established smuggling operations in Texas.

[FITZ]

And why the lower numbers coming in through New Mexico than Arizona when New Mexico tends to have milder temperatures?

[Marine Inspector]

Mexico does not have any major transportation hubs near the NM border.

The major hubs are Nogales and Juarez.

[FITZ]

I would have thought that it would be quite easy to get to Juarez and come in through Anapra or west of there --- all along the route to Palomas/Columbus.

[Marine Inspector]

Several hundred thousand do, the rest stick to the easy routes in Texas and Arizona.

Illegals are like water; they flow to the route off least resistance.

[Amerigomag]

Thanks for the corrections.

Wasn't talking about the Boarder Patrol. They are committed. I'm talking about the kind of political intervention that stopped the apprehensions in southern Cal just recently.

The kind of apprehensions that netted a great bag for the buck. Less than 100 arrests, yet almost a million souls were frozen in their tracks, holed up in their homes with fear. About two more weeks of the tactic and the LA economy would have been dramatically effected, as it should be.

Every child in LA county who refuses to go to school over fear of apprehension and deportation saves the California taxpayer almost $10,000 annually in the education budget. If just 100,000 stayed away for a year, California could afford it's own billion dollar boarder patrol .

[Spiff]

Good stuff!

What is your source? When was this released?

Thanks.

[Marine Inspector]

What is your source?

The DHS Performance Analysis System (PAS). It is not accessible to the public, nor will the Border Patrol release the information to the public.