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Has Trump crushed the border surge?
American Thinker ^ | 06/30/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 07/01/2019 8:38:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Is it possible that President Trump's deal with Mexico on halting the border surge is working? According to Axios:

"The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended roughly 87,000 unauthorized immigrants [sic] in the month of June, a decline compared to the steep figures reported over the last three months, according to leaked internal Department of Homeland Security data."

Why it matters: The drop enables acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan to tout that the June 7 deal the U.S. struck with Mexico to stem the flow of migration is working — the kind of cover he needs to fend off attacks from prominent Trump allies.

Axios has some intriguing data and a chart showing that border apprehensions of "inadmissibles" (meaning foreign nationals who break U.S. law by entering illegally) have declined from 132,887 in May to approximately 87,000 in June. Axios has a chart showing a precipitous drop. It's still early, and these figures are normally compiled around the 7th or 8th. Axios says they don't include "inadmissibles" turned back at legal ports of entry, which would put the numbers a bit higher.

But it could very well signal that President Trump's deal with Mexico is working. Mexico may well be serious about enforcing its own border, given that it has sent 15,000 troops to its southern frontier with Guatemala. In that case — even without any legal reform of asylum loopholes that enable economic migrants to abuse the asylum system, the sheer force of a Mexican troop wall is keeping them out.

Mexico paying for it...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bordercrisis; bordersecurity; illegals; immigration; trumpillegals

1 posted on 07/01/2019 8:38:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Some good news perhaps?

But I don't quite follow this line:

Kevin McAleenan to tout that the June 7 deal the U.S. struck with Mexico to stem the flow of migration is working — the kind of cover he needs to fend off attacks from prominent Trump allies.

Why does he need cover from Trump allies? Is he on the wrong side of the issue?

2 posted on 07/01/2019 8:43:17 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Apprehended? We've been told that, yes, BP "apprehends" them, but then releases them on the condition the crimigrants promise to appear at their immigration hearing at some point in the future.

They've sort of redefined "apprehend."

3 posted on 07/01/2019 8:48:05 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: SeekAndFind

How’s it compare to prior year?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it drops off every year in the heat of the summer.


4 posted on 07/01/2019 8:50:01 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: LouAvul

Thought PDJT was going to end “catch and release”.


5 posted on 07/01/2019 8:59:19 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Magnum44
Why does he need cover from Trump allies?

It is said that he leaked the plan to round up illegals who have deportation orders.

6 posted on 07/01/2019 8:59:30 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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Mexico may well be getting serious about enforcing its own border, given that it has sent 15,000 troops to its
southern frontier with Guatemala— even without any legal reform of asylum loopholes that enable economic migrants
to abuse the asylum system, the sheer force of a Mexican troop wall could be keeping them out.

The name of the game is remittances.

Ice counted some 130 countries jumping the border. "Dirt-poor" Africans are seen holding wads of 100 dollar bills.

Its likely their ****hole Third World govt's are paying the freight b/c the govt honchos cash in bigtime from remittances of the US gravy train tax dollars.

7 posted on 07/01/2019 9:00:02 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: pbear8

Thanks.


8 posted on 07/01/2019 9:02:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

9 posted on 07/01/2019 9:02:49 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: DannyTN

I thought it was 6500 troops to mexico’s southern border and 15,000 troops to northern part.

There is wall construction going on in Calexico and downtown El Paso now. US demanded?? Mex troops to clear out cartel directed violence coming from Mexican side of the border while wall construction going on possibly.


10 posted on 07/01/2019 9:04:14 AM PDT by bakkentom
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To: SeekAndFind

The summer months typically sees a considerable drop in illegal alien traffic. Spring time, around April is where illegal crossing peak.


11 posted on 07/01/2019 9:26:51 AM PDT by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: SeekAndFind

87,000 people is still a damned invasion!


12 posted on 07/01/2019 9:35:51 AM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Ajnin

I would expect that part of this drop is due to summer heat as well.


13 posted on 07/01/2019 9:41:36 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"they" saw it coming, hence the Somali's imported to Maine under obozo and furthered into Minneapolis for an ulham omar

The muzzies are serious about taking our nation away from us using our laws, courts and political system against us.

Wake up, America

14 posted on 07/01/2019 10:30:58 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're tru)
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To: SeekAndFind

87,000 in the month of June.
How is this not an INVASION?
In military numbers, that’s what?
Five DIVISIONS, or about 20 BATTALIONS?

And NO, US military protecting US borders from an INVASION does NOT violate Posse Comitatus.


16 posted on 07/01/2019 4:35:36 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: SeekAndFind

Inadmissables? What the hell? Our own BP calls illegals this? They aren’t the least bit serious about stopping the flood of illegals.

I doubt very much that just this few, like two, weeks has done much good.


17 posted on 07/01/2019 5:33:26 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: bluejean

87,000 is just about as many “inadmissables” as we and the brits landed to invade France.


18 posted on 07/01/2019 5:35:56 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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