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posted by on Monday March 13 2017, @12:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the betteridge's-law-says... dept.

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: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 13 2017, @04:40PM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @04:40PM (#478489) Journal

    It's patently obvious. The Ayatollah's people didn't want Reagan to nuke Tehran. Reagan may or may not have been crazy enough to do that. But, because the Iranians believed he was that crazy, they didn't want to deal with him. They GAVE the hostages away, before Reagan could take over.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:27PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:27PM (#478522)

    It's patently obvious.

    Indeed it is, to someone who fully embraces alt-history it is clear as a bell!

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 13 2017, @06:21PM (4 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @06:21PM (#478547) Journal

      *sigh*

      Were you even BORN when all that shit was happening? I was reading the news every day. For 444 days - the number was incremented each day on the news, as well as in some of the newspapers. Add those days up. They amount to a longer period of time than the official presidential campaign. When the hostages were taken hostage, I hadn't even HEARD OF Ronald Reagan. If you had asked me who he was, I couldn't even have identified him as an actor since I don't do movies. If I were pressed, I may have finally identied him as the governor of Cal, but I never followed Cal politics.

      Reagan had just about nothing to do with the hostage crisis. October surprise? Yeah - if you believe that crap, then you're just another conspiracy theorist. Enjoy it.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:34PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:34PM (#478557)

        Reagan had just about nothing to do with the hostage crisis.

        How does that cake taste?
        You are eating cake, right?
        Because you are clearly trying to have your cake and eat it too.

        Reagan intimidated the iranians into releasing the hostages and at the same time he had nothing to do with the hostages.

        Keep on prattling on about how you "hadn't even heard of ronald reagan" but also know all about what was going on behind closed doors in direct contradiction of what the people who were actually behind those doors have said.

        Oh, yeah Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi!!!! unga bunga Benghazi!!!

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 13 2017, @08:53PM (2 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @08:53PM (#478627) Journal

          Reagan intimidated the iranians into releasing the hostages and at the same time he had nothing to do with the hostages.

          What makes you think that's contradictory? Let's suppose some of my buds and I are illegally racing our pick ups down a country road. A fellow conspirator radios us on the CB that a "smokey" (that's 70s movie-speak for a law enforcement vehicle) is coming to our location. We then abscond and lay low for a while. The smokey had nothing to do with our drag racing, but we aborted the drag racing in order to insure that things remained that way.

          Similarly, the Iranians would have the problem that if they continued to hold these hostages into Reagan's term, then Reagan would have to do something about it. Even if they didn't buy into Runaway's description of Reagan as potentially crazy, it's still throwing in a new unknown without anything to gain from it.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @09:55PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @09:55PM (#478653)

            You've got it wrong. It was Jesus himself who flew down from a Star Wars satellite, shook hands with Reagan and personally rescued the hostages using the threat of flooding the Earth for 40 days and nights. Shit got real for the Iraqis and they realized they needed to pray to the West and worship Reagan. That's why us decent Christian countries have better weapons, because our scientists are devout believers in the right God and Jesus personally guides every bullet our Godly soldiers fire.

            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 13 2017, @10:11PM

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 13 2017, @10:11PM (#478659) Journal
              I thought it was just that Allah clearly favors a secular constitutional democratic republic over a medieval theocratic republic. Learn something new every day.