Indeed, especially in Texas!
In FY 2018, an average of more than 33,000 were apprehended on the southern border EVERY month. A small cities worth of population, month after month after month after month.
Nearly 400,000 were caught FY 2018 alone.
**** Keep in mind, these numbers represent those who were caught. How many were not caught? ****
Southwest Apprehensions By Fiscal Year
| Total Apprehensions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sector | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
| Big Bend TX | 8,045 | 6,002 |
| Del Rio TX | 15,833 | 13,476 |
| El Centro CA | 29,230 | 18,633 |
| El Paso TX | 31,561 | 25,193 |
| Laredo TX | 32,641 | 25,460 |
| Rio Grande TX | 162,262 | 137,562 |
| San Diego CA | 38,591 | 26,086 |
| Tucson AZ | 52,172 | 38,657 |
| Yuma AZ | 26,244 | 12,847 |
| USBP Southwest Border Total | 396,579 | 303,916 |
Texas apprehensions FY 2018 - 250,342
Texas apprehensions FY 2017 - 207,693
Arizona apprehensions FY 2018 - 78,416
Arizona apprehensions FY 2017 - 51,504
California apprehensions FY 2018 - 67,821
California apprehensions FY 2017 - 44,719
Note: For the Las Cruces (NM) station, see El Paso Sector.
So, who’s gonna do the grass cutting and house cleaning?
Why does CA have 1/4 the number of apprehensions that TX does?
Perhaps the Border Patrol wants to catch illegals in Texas ...
Texas taxpayers have been forced to pay for the attempted education of millions of the squatters’ kids. The despots of the Supreme Court ruled it was our obligation to pay for the federal government’s failure to keep our borders secure. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Our jails are full of the wretched refuse that invades our border with Central and South America, thieves, rapists and murderers of our citizens. But that means nothing to non-border states, who benefit from the cheap illegal labor that has corrupted the pay scale of those on the bottom rail.Texas should start sending buses north, loaded with these invaders. Let other states put up with tens of thousands of them. We don’t want them or need them.
Estimated by the BP that the apprehensions represent one third of the number of people crossing ...
33,000 X3 = 99,000 or 66,000 crossed unmolested ...
“We need NEW wall.”
“Indeed, especially in Texas!”
The Administration’s FY19 request ($5.7 billion) would have effectively buttoned up the Rio Grande Valley (100 more miles) and Laredo (55 miles). Seventy five more miles would go to other priority areas (likely some to El Paso). Altogether, it would have transformed the current immigration situation.
That is why the Dem’s had to go to the mat to prevent it.
It sounds like there is enough money identified now to actually do it. The 2019 appropriation specified a list of exceptions to leave several big gaps in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, but it might be possible to close them with the other funds (possibly not).
These exceptions include giving five towns veto authority in their areas, and barring construction in the Bentsen State Park, National Butterfly Center, and La Lomita Chapel areas (which would also leave gaps in the upgraded levee that comes with the barrier).