[raybbr]

So, you see "rod", we caught over 600,000 in 1993. How did we reduce that number?

Since the launch of Operation Gatekeeper, apprehensions in San Diego have dropped from 45 percent to 30 percent of the total Southwest border. At the Imperial Beach station, which covers the first four miles from the ocean eastward and was the busiest border area, apprehensions dropped from 138,185 in FY 1994 (before the start of Gatekeeper) to 25,029 in FY 1997, an 82 percent reduction.

So, what this really means is that enforcement of the border works. But, that bothers you most of all.

[bayourod]

It was a success from the standpoint that it significantly reduced border jumpers in that area. But the estimated number that still got through, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 per year, (454 to 606 per mile), if extrapolated nationwide would still allow over forty million per year to jump the border.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of my numbers. My sources are partially from newspapers and some of those are estimates, such as number of border jumpers not caught. But even if they are off by half, the end conclusion has to be the same.

Operation Gatekeep has been in effect since 1994. Has it reduced the number of illegals in San Diego?

Thanks for taking the time to look at Operation Gatekeeper instead of simply calling me a traitor for raising the point. I would like to have your source to add to my file. Thank you.