Posted on 08/22/2017 8:51:42 AM PDT by jazusamo
The last time a president visited the border in Yuma, Arizona, was 2007, when then-President George W. Bush came to oversee the massive fence-building campaign he’d begun a year earlier, hoping to get a handle on the sea of illegal immigrants flowing north.
Ten years later, as President Trump visits Yuma on Tuesday, the region is considered one of the border’s clearest success stories.
A surge in fencing and Border Patrol agents and a get-tough approach to prosecuting illegal immigrants have produced results that once seemed unimaginable.
The number of illegal immigrants arrested — a rough yardstick for the overall flow — has dropped by a staggering 90 percent in the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector. They no longer see “banzai runs” of hundreds of migrants breaking across the border, property crimes are down, the number of migrants found dead while attempting the crossing is down — and so are assaults on Border Patrol agents, which have fallen from 37 in 2005 down to just seven last year.
“It was like somebody flipped a switch to us. It went from chaos to a controlled border,” Yuma County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Eben Bratcher told The Washington Times during a visit to the region earlier this year.
Now Mr. Trump is calling for another round of spending, looking to duplicate Yuma’s success in other communities that are suffering a new spate of illegal immigration. Yet he’s meeting resistance from many of the same lawmakers who were willing to assist Mr. Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Chaos is a Ladder.
Head line misleading to a fault!
PING
Claymore trip mines will stop that
No doubt it would quickly get their attention.
Any Freepers gathering in Yuma today to greet the president and counteprotest the bleeding hearts that have been on the local news the past two nights?
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Thanks, I saw that and it’s great news.
If the leftists keep up their violence under the pretext of protests they’re going to have a rude awakening, many people are fed up with them.
“when then-President George W. Bush came to oversee the massive fence-building campaign he’d begun”
At that point the writer went off the rails.
Dubya was an amnesty pusher all the way back to 1994, when he joined No Borders Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett on the side of illegal aliens against the voters of California in the Prop 187 fight.
That is an awful idea! We are not the soviet union. People who attempt to cross the border illegally do not deserve to die unless they are criminals. We should have a good barrier and enough manpower on the border to catch every last one of them, they should be treated humanely and sent back home immediately, except for the cartel criminals who are wanted in this country. Trying to enter our country illegally should be an exercise in futility but not to the point of death, at least not at our hands.
from your article:
“Mr. Bush has in the past indicated he is opposed to fencing, and White House officials were kept busy on Thursday trying to explain the change in his position. Tony Snow, the new White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One that the White House supported a Senate amendment, passed on Wednesday, that would build 370 miles of fence in areas most often used by smugglers and illegal workers.”
The Senate passed that fence bill because of the firestorm that Bush’s constant amnesty pushing had generated. Bush was forced into respecting the law by Republicans who didn’t want their voters to sit out the next election. No one who had been fighting to get our immigration laws enforced was fooled by Dubya’s phony change of heart.
Put it any way you want...He was forced, he’s a phony, etc.
But President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 didn’t he.
The difference between you and Bush is that he knew it was bullshit.
LOL! Is that a yes or no on his signing the bill?
I’m under no illusions that Bush wasn’t an open borders guy. Cheers friend.
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