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Originally Posted by Jazuela
Except using your own data source - those are not people who have entered illegally. Those are people who were STOPPED from entering illegally. They never got through. They were either arrested or turned away.
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Exactly. Is the discussion intended to be about how many asylum seekers and potential immigrants are prevented from entering each week? If so, this is from the
Department of Homeland Security. They are puffing themselves up, but:
"CBP Border Patrol apprehensions have dropped by 53 percent since 2008, indicating that fewer people are attempting to illegally cross the border; while the Border Patrol is better staffed than at any time in its history with more than 21,000 border agents— most of these agents at the Southwest border.
Patrols in the Southwest have substantially increased the amount of drugs, guns, and cash seized over the last three years:
74 percent more money
41 percent more drugs, and
159 percent more weapons have been apprehended.
Additionally, since 2008, crime rates have fallen in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas."
It's distressing to me on a human level that so many people in countries with poor or unstable economies leave the only homes and families they know and whose best hope is to attempt to enter the US knowing they will not be allowed in. How desperate must they be?
All four of my grandparents were immigrants through Ellis Island in the 20s and 30s, but boy has the door ever slammed shut since then.
I met my husband while living overseas and can verify that legal immigration takes tedious years, tests, and Immigration visits. And that's for an "automatic" legal approval due to marriage.
In other words, I think the process is generally working as it should.