Posted on 12/05/2017 7:22:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal government, in the most complete statistical snapshot of immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump, says Border Patrol arrests plunged to a 45-year low while arrests by deportation officers soared.
The Border Patrol made 310,531 arrests during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a decline of 25 percent from 415,816 a year earlier and the lowest level since 1971. Despite the significant decline, arrests increased every month since May — largely families and unaccompanied children.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose officers pick up people for deportation away from the border, made 143,470 arrests, an increase of 25 percent from 114,434 a year earlier. After Trump took office, ICE arrests surged 40 percent from the same period a year earlier.
The numbers released by the government Tuesday show that deportation officers are taking Trump’s call for an immigration crackdown to heart, even without the funding increase that the president has sought from Congress for more hiring. In February, then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly scrapped the previous administration’s instructions to limit deportations to public safety threats, convicted criminals and recent border crossers, effectively making anyone in the country illegally vulnerable.
“We have clearly seen the successful results of the president’s commitment to supporting the frontline officers and agents of (the Department of Homeland Security) as they enforce the law and secure our borders,” said Elaine Duke, acting secretary.
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Maybe we’re starting to see some winning on this.
winning yes but...... at this rate many will die of old age before deportation
Glimmers of hope.
Many years of sustained removal lie ahead to remove 30 million illegal aliens.
When did squatting become legal? In October, the Texas border patrol arrested 9,500 illegal aliens, so don’t be fooled into thinking we do not need to build the Trump Wall because illegal entry is down so much.
no this is not a “crackdown on immigration”
This has nothing to do with IMMIGRATION...
This is a crackdown on the illegal aliens...
DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT
Just fixing what obummer did.
Before obummer, the Border Patrol “removed” (not deported) illegal aliens.
ICE “deports” illegal aliens.
obummer added those numbers together and bragged about how much more were being deported under obummer.
This was false and misleading.
Now that Trump is back, the split in numbers between deportations and removals are now back. . .meaning Border Patrol no longer “deports,” and its numbers are back to being counted as “removals.”
ICE does “deportations” without counting Border Patrol numbers.
Please see Post 7.
They need to explain that border arrests are down due to fewer illegals trying to enter. The free pass is gone.
Bingo. Just the message that enforcement of immigration law WILL be done is deterring many new border-breakers.
Arrests are falling because these criminals are self-deporting, or are hiding in the "sanctuary" zones. Let's call them by their rightful name: insurrection zones.
Thanks to Donald J Trump our country is getting safer... and a better place to live.
The longest journey starts with the first step forward...
Keep in mind the Border Patrol has always stated that they are catching only about 10% of the intruders.
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