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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) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday March 13 2017, @05:15PM (3 children)
Didn't we see this "hey, there were white slaves too, and black slave owners" pop up a few days ago?
I'm pretty sure in that case it was introduced to the argument completely off topic as well.
Hey everyone, I think we found the new meme handed down by the alt-right propaganda machine! Everybody cross "SJW" and "Identity Politics" off your Breitbart Bingo scorecards, and write "White slavery" in its place.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @05:31PM
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/19/how-myth-irish-slaves-became-favorite-meme-racists-online [splcenter.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:39PM
It is pretty hilarious to see the memes spread like wildfire. "Hey boys we have a new way of distracting everybody!"
Lawl lawl lawl, it is entertaining and horrifying all at once. Seeing the idiots get worked over by their own stupidity is funny, seeing them shape the direction of our country is terrifying.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday March 13 2017, @07:12PM
It may be popping up again, but it's not new. It was in the white supremacist/Christian extremist undercurrent at least in the 90s and probably before then. (See Christian Identity [wikipedia.org].)
Look for key ideas like slave owners working just as hard beside the slaves in the field (or harder) and denials that the speaker's heritage would have been wealthy enough to even own slaves if the speaker comes from down South. There is also eagerness to bring up the fact that many African cultures often did have a practices one may describe adequately as “slavery” though the white supremacist will imply those are no different at all from the practice in the antebellum South. There's also Anthony Johnson [wikipedia.org] who came up recently here as well.