Posted on 10/23/2018 12:26:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 400,000 people crossing the Mexico-U.S. border in fiscal 2018, up roughly 100,000 from the prior year.
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced that, in total, 521,090 individuals were either apprehended or deemed ”inadmissible” after arriving at a port of entry on the border during the fiscal year.
Roughly 54,000 family units were found to be inadmissible in that time span, the department said.
The total number of border apprehensions and individuals deemed inadmissible at the border was largely consistent with totals from the previous five years.
From fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2018, the total number of apprehensions and inadmissibles has fallen between 400,000 and 570,000 people.
The Trump administration has made cracking down on illegal immigration a focal point of its agenda. The administration drew backlash earlier this year when it enacted a "zero tolerance" policy that led to the separation of thousands of children from their parents when they illegally crossed the border.
Homeland Security announced the latest numbers as the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric portraying a caravan of Central American migrants headed toward the U.S. border as an imminent threat.
The president has suggested that there are “unknown Middle Easterners” in the group, that Democrats are responsible for the caravan and that its members are being paid. He has not provided evidence for any of those claims.
And since they only catch about 10% of them (maybe 20% on a good day)... That means that somewhere between 2 million and 4 million made it in in that time period. . Not including how many of those captured were ‘catch and release’ beneficiaries.
it’s because the economy is kicking a$$. america is once again a country that is worth trying to sneak into.
SO WHAT? They're still catch and release, given a court date that they will never show up for.
We need to stop them before they enter the country.
obama’s economic policies were actually very good at deterring illegals; make america suck, and no one wants to come here.
Build the wall!
Not all illegal aliens are wonderful and kind people!
‘A ticking time bomb’: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers, parents, students.
The boys had once been friends before MS-13 began recruiting one of them.
Now, as other students streamed to class one April morning at William Wirt Middle School in Riverdale, Md., the two teens squared off in the third-story bathroom — a fight captured by another student on his cellphone.
The MS-13 recruit threw a punch at his former friend’s head. His opponent ducked and tackled the 15-year-old, their sneakers squealing as they tumbled to the green tile floor.
“I like that,” someone shouted off-camera as the recruit tried to cover his head.
“That look like it hurt,” someone wrote under the video, which was uploaded to Instagram on April 19 and has been viewed more than 400 times.
Gang-related fights are now a near-daily occurrence at Wirt, where a small group of suspected MS-13 members at the overwhelmingly Hispanic school throw gang signs, sell drugs, draw gang graffiti and aggressively recruit students recently arrived from Central America, according to more than two dozen teachers, parents and students. Most of those interviewed asked not to be identified for fear of losing their jobs or being targeted by MS-13.
Although administrators deny Wirt has a gang problem, the situation inside the aging, overcrowded buildinghas left some teachers so afraid that they refuse to be alone with their students. Many said they had repeatedly reported incidents involving suspected gang members to administrators, only to be ignored — claims supported by documents obtained by The Washington Post.
“Teachers feel threatened but aren’t backed up. Students feel threatened but aren’t protected,” one educator said. “The school is a ticking time bomb.”
The gang’s presence at Wirt comes at a time when the Trump administration has declared war on MS-13, and communities throughout the country are confronting a surge in MS-13-related violence.
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HOORAY Boder Patrol. Protect America.
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