Posted on 12/05/2017 10:44:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN DIEGO -- The federal government, in the most complete statistical snapshot of immigration enforcement under President 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 Mr. Trump took office, ICE arrests surged 40 percent from the same period a year earlier.
ICE said that deportations totaled 226,119, a decline of 6 percent from the previous year, but that number masks a seismic shift away from the border. ICE often takes custody of people at the border before deporting them; the sharp drop in Border Patrol arrests means fewer people to remove.
ICE said "interior removals" - people deported after being arrested away from the border - jumped 25 percent to 81,603 from 65,332 the previous year. They rose 37 percent since Mr. Trump's inauguration compared to the same period a year earlier.
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More winning.
Does catch-and-release count as an arrest? Not sarc, just wondering.
YA THINK?????
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Reasons for the precipitous drop in border arrests are unclear but Mr. Trump’s election may have deterred people from trying.
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