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Illegal immigration plummets along southwest border: DHS (Lying or incompetency being displayed)
wash times ^ | 4/25/15 | s dinan

Posted on 04/25/2015 6:52:09 AM PDT by bestintxas

The flow of illegal immigrants has dropped to its lowest level in years judging by the number being apprehended along the border, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday as he sought to be more transparent about his department’s performance.

Mr. Johnson said the drop is coming despite an improving economy, which generally draws more illegal migrants. Instead, the secretary said, a boost in manpower and technology along the southwestern border, coupled with public messages in Latin America discouraging would-be migrants from making the journey have helped turn the tide.

Through the first six months of fiscal year 2015, which began Oct. 1, the Border Patrol had caught 151,705 illegal immigrants on the southwestern border, down by 28 percent compared to the previous year.

“We are not declaring mission accomplished. we believe that there is more we can and should do when it comes to strengthening border security,” Mr. Johnson said.

The number of illegal immigrants caught is thought to be a rough measure of the total flow trying to come, so a drop in apprehensions is seen as an indication that fewer people are successfully entering.

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


TOPICS: Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; dhs; illegals
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Like Obama, he is either incompetent or is outright lying.

Which one is it?

1 posted on 04/25/2015 6:52:09 AM PDT by bestintxas
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To: bestintxas

Both


2 posted on 04/25/2015 6:55:52 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: bestintxas
the number being apprehended along the border to its lowest level in years

That part is true ... Considering the source ... very true.

3 posted on 04/25/2015 6:57:07 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Do what is Right ... Take This Freepathon Over the Top!!!)
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To: bestintxas
Easy explanation:

They don't count foreigners walking across the border to join Obama's FREE S**T ARMY as illegals.


4 posted on 04/25/2015 6:57:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: bestintxas

They’re completely comfortable with their lies, aren’t they?


5 posted on 04/25/2015 6:58:37 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: bestintxas

Why swim a river, crawl through a tunnel, sneak through on an overcrowded tanker/semi/milk truck, desert trek or all that jazz when Obama will send his DHS goons right to your South American country and fly your butt for free right to front of the line right here in good old USA, carte blanche....


6 posted on 04/25/2015 7:00:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jane Long

The GOP must be held accountable for enabling every
treason, every murder, every rape, every arm
given to al Qaeda and Islamic terrorists,
and every lie they made to America to TRICK the voters.


7 posted on 04/25/2015 7:00:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: bestintxas

They have just defined the problem away. Their real concern is native born American citizens and anyone they can paint as right wing.


8 posted on 04/25/2015 7:00:46 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Diogenesis

And, don’t forget the rapes/murders by illegal aliens....you know, the rapes/murders that American’s don’t want to do. Have some heart, as Jebbie would say.


9 posted on 04/25/2015 7:02:51 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: bestintxas

Anything coming from within the beltway is 80% BS and the rest are just lies. Remember that the DC in Washington DC really means Washington, District of Corruption.


10 posted on 04/25/2015 7:12:17 AM PDT by JayAr36 (If they kept Lying and Cheating out of Politics there would be no Democrat Party)
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—The flow of illegal immigrants has dropped to its lowest level in years judging by the number being apprehended along the border—f

Of course the numbers are going to go down when border security gets the order to lighten up. Just who is Mr. Johnson is trying to fool?


11 posted on 04/25/2015 7:14:39 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: bestintxas

Maybe they’ve figured out that they’ll be caught in the middle of the CWII


12 posted on 04/25/2015 7:20:53 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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Not just that; at some point (though Brazil at least is decades from this point), Latin America will run out of people to export. The 1%ers down there aren’t going to work their own plantations, cook their own meals, etc.

Just as there are more Irish people here than in Ireland, we probaby have more Peruvians in NJ than in all of Peru.


13 posted on 04/25/2015 7:23:41 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The flow of illegal immigrants has dropped to its lowest level in years judging by the number being apprehended along the border

This is similar to other lunacy from the left:

"California reduces Prison overcrowding - 30,000 felons released"

"California crime rate increasing - Political Leaders baffled"

Cause and effect are unknowns to them.

14 posted on 04/25/2015 7:26:15 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: bestintxas

Key word “apprehended.”


15 posted on 04/25/2015 7:29:57 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

Yes. The Obola administration’s HHS is DELIBERATELY “apprehending” fewer illegal aliens, but this propaganda (er, report) specifically makes the assumption fewer illegal aliens are crossing the border.


16 posted on 04/25/2015 7:40:29 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Gaffer

I had to get my drivers license switched over from IL to AZ. While there, I saw many foreigners and at least half (they were Muslims based on their clothing) did not have the necessary documents and were turned away. I believe the clerk specifically said they needed an I-94 form or some such thing???


17 posted on 04/25/2015 7:42:14 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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"or some such thing???"

More Ca$h from Bammy's $tash....

18 posted on 04/25/2015 7:48:23 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bestintxas

‘The flow of illegal immigrants has dropped...”

Depends on Jeh’s definition of “illegal”, doesn’t it.


19 posted on 04/25/2015 7:49:26 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: bestintxas

That is because Obama will not let the Border Patrol arrest illegals, who are now officially listed as “refugees” and unofficially, as future Democrat voters.

If there is a real decrease, it might be because the Texas Guard is still patrolling the Rio Grands, and would-be squatters respect their presence. The taxpayers of Texas have spent millions keeping the rest of you a little safer from the invasion of criminals on our border. With our oil and gas industry suffering and state revenues down, don’t expect your free ride to continue much longer.


20 posted on 04/25/2015 8:13:25 AM PDT by txrefugee
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