OK, I see a bit. I read "as of" and interpreted it to mean "since". I understand that error.
It still seems to me as if our compassionate dimwit is saying that the BP attaches the title "felon" to repeat crossers in an attempt to discount the seriousness of the label, then quotes BP stats describing over 8000 of these people. Eight thousand doesn't seem like a neglegible figure, even with my better undestanding of the time frame.
Numbers are wild and wonderful. The BP nabbed about 905,000 here on the border last year. They guesstimate they caught maybe one in five, so it might be that 3.6 million made it across safely. But then again, most of that 905,000 tried again and made it, too. So what is the true number?
Praise Allah and pass the guacamole.
I lost track of which article we were discussing!
This is the one about the workshop held in Bisbee to teach people how to help the illegals survive, but the real goal of the group is to circumvent our national borders.
With that in mind, I don't place a whole lot of credence in the validity of the workshop leader's rhetoric, especially where it helps her cause and hurts ours.