'What We Need is a Wall': Border Ranchers Say Unknown Number of Migrants Entering US Illegally

www1.cbn.com ^ | 4/1/2019 | Chuck Holton

[rktman]

.... nobody really knows how many illegal crossers enter the United States without being caught. A hundred miles west of El Paso on the border in New Mexico, ranchers say the tidal wave of migrants has left the Border Patrol unable to cover this remote stretch of desert where they live.

"I'm Russell Johnson. I'm the fourth generation to be ranching out here with my family, and this is the barrier that we've got in one stretch of area that my family farms," one of the ranchers told CBN News.

"And as you can see it serves no purpose to stop vehicles or people. It's been cut multiple times, you can step right over it. I mean, it does nothing to stop illegal traffic from coming through, it's not even a deterrent," Johnson said.

CBN News Correspondent Chuck Holton demonstrated how easy it is for migrants to cross at this point on the border. They merely have to jump a short fence.

[rktman]

What crisis? No wall needed. Just causes worse problems says the Pope. Uh, okee dokee then. Anti-wallers can speak up when the leave their domiciles/property/possessions unlocked and unguarded 24/7/365. When they do that they may comment. Until then, they can sit down and shut up.

[ScottinVA]

Most Americans simply don’t care. Sorry, ranchers... it’s the cost of doing business there.

[MichaelCorleone]

This is just surreal.

The wholesale liquidation of our beloved country.

United States of America, we hardly knew ye...

[deport]

The ever changing landscape........

.......
The history of the Americas is an interesting exploration. I’m not that
versed in the details. But 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue is
a starting point for modern day history. However going backwards a
few millenniums in to what we can find becomes apparent that the
Europeans were very late comers to this part of the world.

An article detailing some theories about the history offers the following:

snip
Today, the emerging theory is that the people up in the Bluefish Caves
some 24,000 years ago were the founders, and that they represent a
culture that was isolated for thousands of years up in the cold north,
incubating a population that would eventually seed everywhere else. This
idea has become known as Beringian Standstill. Those founders had split
from known populations in Siberian Asia some 40,000 years ago, come
across Beringia, and stayed put until around 16,000 years ago.

Link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/a-brief-history-of-everyone-who-ever-lived/537942/

A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas

[Mr Radical]

I’ve been sayin’ all along and I keep on sayin’, “Deploy the army now.” What else is an army for, if not to defend a nation’s borders?

[thoughtomator]

What we need are minefields, or something else to drive up the risk to the point where it’s not worth it.

[rktman]

They must have used the Aleutians to get here before glow bull warming caused the oceans to rise and flood the bridge. 🙀👹

[MichaelCorleone]

Yes, interesting - and illuminating as well.

Years ago some have said to me that the American Indians (native Americans) were actually Mongols that somehow got here. Presumably the continents were quite different then as well, so it was an easier trek.

You are opening up for some interesting discussion on this topic possibly. What is the Internet for if not for our own edification?

Maybe others will care to chime in.

[onyx]

I knew of a property owner in the barren, yet rugged East County who got damn sick and tired of illegals tramping through his property late at night by jumping over his wire fence which skirted the border between his property line and Mexico.

So, one weekend in the autumn of one year, he dug an 8 foot deep trench along a stretch of his newly replaced wire fence and placed flimsy chicken coop wire over the trench. He then scattered twigs, leaves and some dirt atop the chicken coop wire ... and waited ...

[rktman]

“He then scattered twigs, leaves and some dirt atop the chicken coop wire ... and waited ... “ To be sued?

[rxsid]

".... nobody really knows how many illegal crossers enter the United States without being caught. "

That's correct. We don't know the exact numbers who are not caught, but estimates are around 1/2 a million. Add those to the nearly million who will be "apprehended" and let loose into the country.

1.5 MILLION foreign nationals who disrespect our national sovereignty and rule of law, just in 2019 alone!

These Numbers Represent The National Emergency

On a Typical Day in Fiscal Year 2017, CBP...

CONDUCTED:
→ 851 apprehensions between U.S. ports of entry
→ 21 arrests of wanted criminals at U.S. ports of entry (how many wanted criminals arrested between ports of entry?)
→ 592 refusals of inadmissible persons at U.S. ports of entry (how many inadmissible persons refusals between ports of entry?)

SEIZED:
→ 5,863 pounds of narcotics; disrupted 222 pounds of narcotics
→ $265,205 in undeclared or illicit currency
→ $3.3 million worth of products with Intellectual Property Rights violations

IDENTIFIED:
→ 1607 individuals with suspected national security concerns (this one alone defines this as a national emergency!)
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/typical-day-fy2017

 

In FY 2018, an average of more than 33,000 were apprehended on the southern border EVERY month.
In FY 2019, as of the end of Feb, the average is more than 53,000 apprehensions, EVERY month.

**** Keep in mind, these numbers represent those who were caught (apprehended). How many were not caught? ****

Southwest Apprehensions By Fiscal Year

	Total Apprehensions
Sector	FY 2019* To Date	FY 2019 Projected	FY 2018	FY 2017
Big Bend TX	3,058*	7,339	8,045	6,002
Del Rio TX	12,650*	30,360	15,833	13,476
El Centro CA	14,930*	35,832	29,230	18,633
El Paso TX	48,535*	116,484	31,561	25,193
Laredo TX	13,928*	33,427	32,641	25,460
Rio Grande TX	102,908*	246,979	162,262	137,562
San Diego CA	24,185*	58,044	38,591	26,086
Tucson AZ	24,811*	59,546	52,172	38,657
Yuma AZ	23,037*	55,289	26,244	12,847
USBP Southwest Border Total	267,044*	643,300	396,579	303,916

FY 2019 (* as of 03/05/2019) | FY 2018 | FY 2017

Texas apprehensions FY 2019 - 181,079
Texas apprehensions FY 2018 - 250,342
Texas apprehensions FY 2017 - 207,693

Arizona apprehensions FY 2019 - 47,848
Arizona apprehensions FY 2018 - 78,416
Arizona apprehensions FY 2017 - 51,504

California apprehensions FY 2018 - 39,115
California apprehensions FY 2018 - 67,821
California apprehensions FY 2017 - 44,719

Notes:
1. Fiscal Year 2019 Projected is based on the current 5 month (Oct - Feb) average and does not assume an increase in that average...which more than likely will occur.
2. For the Las Cruces (NM) station, see El Paso Sector.
3. These numbers represent Apprehensions (wind up in our country) and do not include Inadmisibles (generally turned away at points of entry).

In 2019 - up to 500,000 illegal aliens will evade capture by the border patrol and sneak in completely undetected at the border. (these people do not "turn themselves in" and/or are not apprehended as the numbers above represent).

[Two Kids' Dad]

Hey Mexicans, terrorists, Central Americans and any other random illegals: NO MEANS NO!!!

[deport]

That's a theory.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rktman.

[GreyHoundSailor]

They obviously ignored the ‘CAUTION - TRENCH’ signs.

[Rapscallion]

How many times does the President of the United States have to tell you?

We need more wall. We elected him for just this kind of reason.

[frank ballenger]

What crisis? No wall needed. Just causes worse problems says the Pope.

Hope all the valued Trump supporting Catholics here will forgive me now for saying to the Pope:

That sentiment is fine now that you have agreed to pull down the thick wall around the Vatican and have invited tens of thousands of immigrants to enter with free food and drink, shelter, and medical care in the Vatican from now on.

Except you didn't. Old saying: There is nothing so easy to solve as another person's problem.

[Falcon4.0]

What we need is a moat filled with hungry Gators, Crocks and Sharks with frickin’ Laser Beams.

[Freee-dame]

Many, if not most, Trump supporting Catholics do not support the current Pope. He should have nothing to say about politics.

[frank ballenger]

It sounds like Catholics are in a tough spot today.

Although he’s not my personal religious leader I like Rev. Franklin Graham but even he said separating the children from adults at the illegal alien crossings was wrong. Sided with the opportunistic Dems for once and played into their evil game plan.