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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:12PM
Clinton openly promised on multiple occasions in her attempts at becoming president to bomb Iran.
Oh please. At best that's a massive distortion of the facts. She was 100% behind the nuclear deal with Iran. Threatening to bomb them is the exact opposite of that.
Where Trump had hotel deals in countries across the world, Clinton had uranium and oil deals with the Saudis, Russians, and plenty of other dangerous agents.
That's so disingenuous it might as well be a lie.
Trump personally took dirty russian money to bail him out of bankruptcy and almost certainly ended up laundering it as part of the deal.
The shadowy Russian émigré touting Trump [ft.com]
— US election raises ghosts of cold war-era spy games
Dirty money: Trump and the Kazakh connection [ft.com]
— FT probe finds evidence a Trump venture has links to alleged laundering network
Clinton approved uranium and oil deals on behalf of the US government. The uranium conspiracy theory is particularly egregious because the russian company that bought the mineral rights, with the approval of 8 other US agency heads did not have and would not have been allowed to acquire export rights so the uranium was never in going anywhere. [politifact.com]