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Illegal Southwest border crossings were down 40% last month, according to just released Customs and Border Protection numbers -- a sign that President Donald Trump's hardline rhetoric and policies on immigration may be having a deterrent effect.
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly himself announced the month-to-month numbers, statistics that CBP usually quietly posts on its website without fanfare.
According to CBP data, the 40% drop in illegal Southwest border crossings from January to February is far outside normal seasonal trends. Typically, the January to February change is actually an increase of 10% to 20%.
The drop breaks a nearly 20-year trend, as CBP data going back to 2000 shows an uptick in apprehensions every February.
The number of apprehensions and inadmissible individuals presenting at the border was 18,762 people in February, down from 31,578 in January.
It will still take months to figure out if the decrease in apprehensions is an indication of a lasting Trump effect on immigration patterns. Numbers tend to decrease seasonally in the winter and increase into the spring months.
But the sharp downtick after an uptick at the end of the Obama administration could fit the narrative that it takes tough rhetoric on immigration -- backed up by policy -- to get word-of-mouth warnings to undocumented immigrants making the harrowing journey to the border.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/border-crossings-huge-drop-trump-tough-talk/index.html
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @02:07PM (4 children)
Yes, I remember the October Surprise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @11:38PM (3 children)
You forgot to include the link.
Reagan's October Surprise. [google.com]
Nixon's October Surprise. [google.com]
Both were treason.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 14 2017, @01:35AM (2 children)
You forgot to include the link.
Reagan's October Surprise.
Nixon's October Surprise.
Both were treason.
-- OriginalOwner_
Sorry _gewg, those don't rise to the level of treason. At worst they are violations of the Logan Act [wikipedia.org].
As for Nixon, he had his Watergate [wikipedia.org], and Reagan had Iran-Contra [wikipedia.org].
What's more, I'm pretty sure that the CIA was also trading arms for hashish with the Afghani rebels back in the mid 1980s, and selling it in the US.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @02:56AM (1 child)
A USAian conspiring with a foreign power to subvert the diplomatic efforts of the democratically-elected gov't of the USA fits exactly within the definition of treason.
Iran-Contra
The Executive Branch giving USA's weapons of war to a foreign power without consulting Congress is also treason.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:48AM
Au contraire, _gewg. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 3 [cornell.edu]:
You might want to educate yourself a bit, _gewg. This [amazon.com] would likely be of interest.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr