Posted on 05/10/2017 9:55:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to figures released yesterday, the number of illegal aliens crossing the U.S. southwestern border has dropped by an astonishing 76% since President Trump took office.
More specifically, the number of minor children crossing the border with or without a parent has been cut even further.
Illegal immigration across the southwestern border is down a stunning 76 percent since President Trump was elected, with the flow of children and families dropping even faster as analysts say the administration's commitment to enforcing the law has changed the reality along the border.
Overall apprehensions by the Border Patrol dropped to just 11,129 in April, according to numbers released Tuesday, marking the lowest monthly total for any month in decades.
The number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children nabbed at the border dropped below 1,000 – a level not seen since before the surge that bedeviled President Obama during most of his second term.
Even before a foot of Mr. Trump's planned border wall is built or any more agents are hired, the threat of being sent home has forced would-be migrants to rethink making the journey, officials said.
"A lot of the discussion about changes in our enforcement policy and the way we are going about doing business, we believe that has deterred people," said Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan. "When you get here, it is likely you are going to get caught. You are going to be returned to your country."
That approach marks a major change from the Obama administration, which struggled to handle the flow of illegal immigrants from Central America.
Under Obama-era policies, hundreds of thousands of children and families from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were caught and then released
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
On an unrelated note, DNC officials have noted a 76% decrease in new voter registration since January of 2017...
Anecdotal, but the number of American landscapers
driving up and down my street seems nothing short of amazing.
95% of folk on my street hire landscapers.
I do my own as being thrifty is a hobby (seriously).
This time last year it was overwhelmingly illegals. Its’ now flipped.
I’m home 99.9% of the time.
I’m in my yard tending or gardening a lot.
I take note of *most* everyone who passes my house.
We can get the number of crossers down to zero with a nice high wall.
Que up pictures of rotting tomatoes in 3,2, 1....
I have been saying that for years all it takes is a big no more from the top.
and the number of deportations ???
and illegal aliens going back home voluntary ???
those are the crucial amounts...
Still too damn many coming across.
More ‘DREAMERS’ living in Rahm’s Sanctuary City of Chicago
Just here to work jobs that Americans refuse to do.
3 people arrested after $1 million worth of cocaine allegedly found in vehicle
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