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Illegal immigrant children border crossings down 58 percent from 2014 surge(How do they know this?)
wash times ^ | 5/12/15 | s dinan

Posted on 05/12/2015 5:35:16 AM PDT by bestintxas

The renewed flood of illegal immigration children anticipated this year hasn’t materialized, as children are crossing at far lower rates than last year and even lower than 2013, according to new Border Patrol statistics that suggest some of the things the Obama administration did are helping.

Thousands of children are still being caught, but it’s a slower and more regular pace than 2014’s wild spike, which saw 7,700 apprehended at the southwest border in April alone, and more than 10,000 each in May and June. By contrast, this April saw just 3,272 unaccompanied minors caught — a drop of 58 percent year to year.

Through the first seven months of the fiscal year, just 18,919 children were caught total, down from the 36,280 a year earlier at the same time. Agents accused of abusing the children last year have been cleared, and the government is now even meeting its legal 72-hour deadline for processing the kids at the border and releasing them to social workers, who are quickly placing the children with their relatives or foster families here in the U.S.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been clear that he’s not declaring mission accomplished yet, but officials are hopeful the downward trend is permanent after taking myriad steps, including stiffer detention rules here at home, a public relations campaign back in Central America and leaning on the governments of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to do more to stanch the flow at their ends.

“It’s a combination of all the things,” Ronald D. Vitiello, deputy chief of the Border Patrol, told The Washington Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; childillegals; illegal; illegalsinvasion
Does anyone every wonder how the govt can monitor the amount of illegals crossing the border yet cannot apprehend them?

Something sounds fishy or someone is lying.

1 posted on 05/12/2015 5:35:16 AM PDT by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas

They’re probably lying just like everything else. I was talking about this the other day, they say the unemployment rate is 5.4% even though 93 million people are out of work. Well 93 million is is around 30% of the entire population. And then I found what they are doing is only counting the people who are collecting unemployment insurance which of course a great deal of people do not qualify for so they’re lying, they are deceiving the public.


2 posted on 05/12/2015 5:42:08 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: bestintxas
well, honestly the tide has to eb at some point, there are only so many people in central and south america, and it's nuts to think they are all going to come here and leave central and south america empty.
3 posted on 05/12/2015 5:58:05 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

it’s nuts to think they are all going to come here and leave central and south america empty.


65% of most of the countries south of us want to come here, that’s a lot of people.

They’re lying about the numbers currently here and they’re lying about how many are still crossing our still open border.


4 posted on 05/12/2015 7:18:55 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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There’s only 500 million people total in all of central and south america.

I am not sure where you got that 65% of them want to come here, but that sounds real high to me. If 300 million of them came here that would leave nearly the entire continent empty, I just dont see that happening.


5 posted on 05/12/2015 8:37:24 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Public opinion polls done in those countries.


6 posted on 05/12/2015 8:43:04 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The elephant in the room no one talks about are the 3 billion + Asians. If only 10% of them come here that would be more than our current population.

Now, I have no problem with Asians, but I find it interesting how they are so commonly overlooked. The Asian population as a percentage of the population has been increasing FAR faster than the Hispanic, but no one seems to have noticed.

The Asian population in the US has quadrupled since 1980, during that same period of time the Hispanic population has doubled. The difference is that Hispanics were a larger group to begin with in 1980.

But here's the kicker:

There were about the same percent of Hispanics in the US in 1980 as their are Asians in the US now. But the Asian population is growing twice as fast and unlike the Hispanics, there are literally billions of Asians (3 billion) but only 500 million Hispanics.

7 posted on 05/12/2015 9:26:48 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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8 posted on 05/12/2015 10:36:17 AM PDT by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch...soon, so will you!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
there are literally billions of Asians (3 billion) but only 500 million Hispanics

Everyone on Earth is an American, they just haven't gotten here yet.

The Soetoro administration is working on remedying that.

9 posted on 05/12/2015 11:23:30 AM PDT by Regulator
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“”Thousands of children are still being caught””

Last year we were being inundated with all the stories about housing accommodations for them. NOW we’re told, they were caught and not HOUSED? What were all the pictures about that were published - of refurbished apartment houses, hotels etc.?
Did I dream all that? Or better put - was I having nightmares?


10 posted on 05/12/2015 4:32:50 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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“”Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been clear that he’s not declaring mission accomplished yet, but officials are hopeful the downward trend is permanent after taking myriad steps, including stiffer detention rules here at home, a public relations campaign back in Central America and leaning on the governments of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to do more to stanch the flow at their ends.””

It truly was a long nightmare. Last year no one in any agency saw a need to put a stop to the problem. The powers that be didn’t see it as a problem and it was the rest of us who were biased, prejudiced etc. Now they’re taking credit for something that they said didn’t matter. And what are we supposed to think of the recent headlines that the dependents of those here illegally will be FLOWN to the US from Central American countries?

Stop the world - I want to get off!!!


11 posted on 05/12/2015 4:38:17 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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