Posted on 03/05/2019 10:51:23 AM PST by reaganaut1
The U.S. has set a new record for the number of migrant families caught crossing its southern border over an entire year. It took just five months.
From the start of the federal fiscal year in October through February, the Border Patrol arrested 136,150 people traveling as families for crossing the border illegally, according to data released Tuesday. The prior record for a 12-month period was 107,212, during the fiscal year that ended last September.
The rapid acceleration is the latest illustration of how many parents and children are seeking asylum in the U.S., primarily to escape violence, poverty and hunger in Central America, according to migrants, advocates and law enforcement. And those with children in tow are typically detained for shorter periods than adults traveling alone, because of a 20-day limit on detaining minors.
The number of families caught at the border has been steadily rising since the 2015 fiscal year, when fewer than 40,000 such migrants were arrested. Since U.S. Customs and Border Protection began counting family units in 2013, there have been 2.6 million apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border.
At the current pace, the number of families arrested at the border could double or even triple the record by September. Maureen Meyer, Mexico and migrant rights director for the Washington Office on Latin America, a human-rights advocacy group in Washington, said there is no sign that the pace is slowing.
“Nothing in the Northern Triangle countries has changed,” Ms. Meyer said, referring to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Government officials said trying to estimate how many people will cross the border illegally in the coming months isn’t possible.
“Immigration patterns are determined by so many different things,” said Ramiro Cordero, a Border Patrol spokesman in El Paso, Texas. “They fluctuate so much that you can’t predict it.”
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Insane.
Close the entire border, now!
what happens after they are arrested?
“Nothing in the Northern Triangle countries has changed,”
What’s changed is people are getting tired of living in those sh*thole countries.
How many families are families?
summer is coming up and these assholes are gearing up for it..
So, 2.6 million apprehensions...does that mean there are 2.6 million in jail.
Why do we never hear about WHAT happens to them.
They say this like arresting them is a bad thing
They bring their sh!t hole habits and sh!t hole values to turn the USA into a place just like they came from.
“How many families are families?”
They’re all crime families.
And rather then fix the countries they’ve destroyed they run here and are in the process of destroying ours.
* “Goodbye Yankee son of a bitch’’.
Yup, you got it.
Are more coming now or are we simply catching more ?
I have no doubt ICE has more support from Trump than what they got from Obamination
Getting ready for the 2020 election no doubt..
If we shot a few, this crap would stop.
If they were probable Republican voters they would have closed the border years ago.
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