Posted on 12/15/2017 9:17:47 AM PST by bryan999
Illegal immigration across the Southwest border has surged back to Obama-era levels, according to the latest data released Friday that suggests the gains President Trump made early in his tenure have worn off.
Nearly 40,000 illegal immigrants were nabbed attempting to sneak in at the border in November, which was up about 12 percent compared to October, and more than twice the monthly numbers from March and April, when Mr. Trump touted his early accomplishments.
Perhaps just as worrisome for officials is the rise in families traveling together, which surged 45 percent last month, and unaccompanied minors traveling without parents, which rose 26 percent in November.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection called the rise an uptick.
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Yes, DACA is the crack through which they intend to wedge the rest of them through.
It will be much harder to remove their parents who committed child trafficking across international borders.
ANY amnesty is fatal to the Republic.
We MUST retain the rule of law.
The Senate refuses to mandate e-verify.
We need new Senators.
The ones that we have that wear R jerseys are mostly against US and with the illegal aliens and their employers.
Almost every institution in America, from unions and churches, to the courts and our representatives are in favor of the plan to turn the USA into North Mexico.
The citizens elected Trump as a last ditch effort to save their country.
I really hope he sticks with US.
While that makes sense, the traditional numbers don’t back the mass movements of people across our border during the Winter.
It also gets damned cold in dessert areas at night.
It’s surprising how cold it can get at night in some areas thought of as dessert at night, even in warmer day temperature seasons.
Guatemala is not about to collapse.
“And make Everify mandatory.”
Together with substantial fines and jail time for businesses that get caught hiring illegals and not using E-verify.
Install a Mine-Field until the Wall is completed.
I hope so too.
Sorry, meant no offense and may have misinterpreted the data. Perhaps collapse is too strong a word to describe the situation.
"More than half of the population is below the national poverty line, and 23% of the population lives in extreme poverty. Poverty among indigenous groups, which make up more than 40% of the population, averages 79%, with 39.8% of the indigenous population living in extreme poverty. Nearly one-half of Guatemala's children under age five are chronically malnourished, one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world.Guatemala is facing growing fiscal pressures exacerbated by multiple corruption scandals in 2015 that led to the resignation of the president, vice president, and numerous high-level economic officials."
There is a large underground economy and the poverty of natives is normal for their way of life which they do not want to leave.
Thanks for the info. :)
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