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Posted on 07/19/2019 2:46:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
A gut-wrenching photograph late last month of a father and daughter in the Rio Grande – while attempting to cross from Mexico into the United States – sharply exacerbated existing tensions over the ongoing border and migration crisis dividing Americans.
But while politicians and Presidential hopefuls expressed their outrage and pointed fingers at the Trump administration, official data indicates that Mexico-U.S. border deaths have actually declined in the first two years of the current administration.
According to statistics compiled by the United States Border Patrol, there were 298 border deaths in 2017 and 283 in 2018, making it an average of 291 per year. The average yearly deaths under President Obama stood at 372 and 382 under the Bush administration.
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I dunno why it matters how many invaders die during an invasion.
No one wants to see kids die.
But kids die in wars all the time, it’s a horrible fact of war.
And this is a war at the border.
But the media just wasn’t able to be around for those terrible deaths during the Zero years.
Shhhh, don’t confuse the low IQ Squad with facts. It jut makes them screech louder.
That’s racist! Border deaths are an important political tool for the Democrat Party.
:^) You’re correct, screeching is the only thing they’re good at.
Help to have a mouth stolen from Mr. Ed ;-)
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Not happy to see any deaths there, but it all goes back to people making poor choices. The attempted illegal alien is the entity to bear the full resposibility for this.
Of course, the left didn’t care when it happened under Obama. All they care about is finding any reason to be outraged.
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