jimnyc
02-11-2019, 06:53 PM
The left keeps repeating over and over that there is no issue at the border. We have nothing to worry about. We pay about $100 billion right now because of ILLEGAL immigration. Are the numbers at the border enough to continue to increase this amount? Hell yes!
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After holiday lull, Central American family migration returns to record levels, new figures show
U.S. border officials said Friday they saw an abrupt drop-off in illegal crossings during the holiday season, but the number of Central Americans arriving in family groups has returned to record levels since then.
The lull in unauthorized crossings suggests some Central American migrants - and the smuggling organizations that deliver them to the border - may have taken a break or deferred the journey north until after the holidays.
During the first week of January, when the extended Christmas season was still being celebrated in Mexico and Central America, the number of migrant family members taken into custody by U.S. agents fell to as low as 200 on some days, according to preliminary data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. --- those are OFF DAYS!
By the middle of January, the number of families members arriving jumped again, reaching as high as 1,400 per day, and smuggling organizations once more began delivering groups of 300 or more parents and children to remote border crossings in Arizona and New Mexico.
A CBP official told reporters Friday that about 75 percent of the family members detained in January arrived during the second half of the month. Family groups accounted for 59 percent of all border apprehensions, and although the total number of parents and children taken into custody - 24,116 - declined slightly from December, "that still represents one of the highest totals we have on record," one official said.
Overall, CBP carried out 58,207 arrests and detentions in January, down 4 percent over the previous month, the latest figures show. --- 58,000 and that's just January!!
President Donald Trump last spring ordered a "zero tolerance" prosecution push at the border that led to the separation of at least 2,500 families before he halted the measures amid a torrent of criticism. Since then, the number of parents arriving with children has accounted for an ever-growing share of border arrests, as the family groups arrive seeking to turn themselves in to U.S. agents and request asylum or some form of humanitarian protection.
The families are typically processed and released from federal custody after a few days, with a hearing in immigration court that may be months or years away. Critics deride this model as "catch and release," and say it is adding to a legal backlog that has pushed U.S. immigration courts to the brink of collapse.
The number of "family unit" members taken into custody is up 290 percent during the first four months of the government's 2019 fiscal year, compared with the same period last year.
While migration trends have historically followed seasonal patterns, the holiday lull documented last month was especially pronounced.
Rest - https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/After-holiday-lull-Central-American-family-13602434.php
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After holiday lull, Central American family migration returns to record levels, new figures show
U.S. border officials said Friday they saw an abrupt drop-off in illegal crossings during the holiday season, but the number of Central Americans arriving in family groups has returned to record levels since then.
The lull in unauthorized crossings suggests some Central American migrants - and the smuggling organizations that deliver them to the border - may have taken a break or deferred the journey north until after the holidays.
During the first week of January, when the extended Christmas season was still being celebrated in Mexico and Central America, the number of migrant family members taken into custody by U.S. agents fell to as low as 200 on some days, according to preliminary data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. --- those are OFF DAYS!
By the middle of January, the number of families members arriving jumped again, reaching as high as 1,400 per day, and smuggling organizations once more began delivering groups of 300 or more parents and children to remote border crossings in Arizona and New Mexico.
A CBP official told reporters Friday that about 75 percent of the family members detained in January arrived during the second half of the month. Family groups accounted for 59 percent of all border apprehensions, and although the total number of parents and children taken into custody - 24,116 - declined slightly from December, "that still represents one of the highest totals we have on record," one official said.
Overall, CBP carried out 58,207 arrests and detentions in January, down 4 percent over the previous month, the latest figures show. --- 58,000 and that's just January!!
President Donald Trump last spring ordered a "zero tolerance" prosecution push at the border that led to the separation of at least 2,500 families before he halted the measures amid a torrent of criticism. Since then, the number of parents arriving with children has accounted for an ever-growing share of border arrests, as the family groups arrive seeking to turn themselves in to U.S. agents and request asylum or some form of humanitarian protection.
The families are typically processed and released from federal custody after a few days, with a hearing in immigration court that may be months or years away. Critics deride this model as "catch and release," and say it is adding to a legal backlog that has pushed U.S. immigration courts to the brink of collapse.
The number of "family unit" members taken into custody is up 290 percent during the first four months of the government's 2019 fiscal year, compared with the same period last year.
While migration trends have historically followed seasonal patterns, the holiday lull documented last month was especially pronounced.
Rest - https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/After-holiday-lull-Central-American-family-13602434.php