Actually, the Border Patrol has given those figures to Bill Hess, Senior Report at the Sierra Vista Herald.
Spiff and I have been posting them all week.
Only 400 had been apprehended in sector by the end of the third day of April, a rate of about 133 per day.
For the previous month (March), the BP apprehended 24,232, which is 781 per day.
Which makes the claim of this editorial that the MMP is a failure a hugh bucket of whitewash.
I wish you guys would have read the entire editorial before you sounded off:
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
A Houstonian armed to the teeth stands atop his pickup truck in the Arizona desert. He wishes to deter illegal immigrants from Mexico, but he and his confederates will fail. Border Patrol officials said some civilian observers set off motion detectors, complicating rather than aiding the agency's mission.
The first few days of the Minutemen Project, which involves a couple of hundred volunteers monitoring a 23-mile stretch of the U.S. border with Mexico and protesting uncontrolled immigration, have brought no evidence that immigration has been deterred. The Border Patrol, which last year apprehended 450,000 illegal migrants in the Tucson, Ariz., sector as more made it through, said the number of calls it has received remained static. On the other side of the border, Mexican officials warned migrants to go around the volunteer border watchers and posted extra police and troops, heightening the chance of accidental confrontation.
The organizers of the Minuteman Project say that a branch could be coming to a border area near you, including Texas. However, the anemic turnout for the first deployment suggests that the movement might soon come to a blessed standstill.
Some members say they are simply ranchers along the border who object to trespassers leaving trash injurious to their livestock. Others resent the flouting of U.S. law and the cultural changes that uncontrolled immigration brings. One organizer said the principal aim of the exercise was to raise press coverage and awareness of the problem, and in this the movement succeeded.
It is just as illegal for Americans to knowingly employ illegal immigrants as it is for the illegal immigrants to come here, yet millions of illegal migrants find jobs in this country. Only a handful of employers are fined. The ill-advised Minutemen Project demonstrates the irrationality of a federal immigration policy that can't stop most of the immigrants from crossing the border and doesn't seek to keep them unemployed when they arrive.
Guess what.