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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, @06:02PM (1 child)
The one document that could prove your citizenship, your birth certificate, is not asked for; only the child's is. For foodstamps you don't need even that.
Ah, the argument from ignorance.
Just because SNAP has multiple ways to verify recipient identity doesn't mean they do not verify identity.
They don't just write your name down and then file it away. They look you up in the system to make sure you are qualified to receive benefits.
A birth certificate isn't actually ID anyway since it has no photograph.
The idea that any substantial portion of illegal immigrants are falsely claiming benefits is ludicrous. Illegal immigrants stay as far away from organs of the state as possible because any such contact dramatically risks them being deported. Its a last resort at best.
What is legal and what actually happens are not the same thing or we would not have a problem with illegal immigration.
Oh look, another dictionary pedant. All definitions of "illegal" are not equal. Otherwise everybody in the country would be an illegal since we've all broken some law at some point in our lives. [reason.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:43PM
TMB: Not letting facts get in the way of his personal narrative for 20+ years!