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 Runaway1956 on Monday March 13 2017, @06:22PM (5 children)
The term suggests established migration routes, that have endured through time.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:37PM
I never thought I'd meet the guy who migrates his VMs back and forth between two or three pieces of physical hardware with the seasons as his grandfather's grandfather did, but here he is!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @06:37PM (3 children)
Dude you are now reduced to disputing the FUCKING OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
The single most authoritative dictionary of the english language in existence.
Like every single dictionary pedant ever, you incorrectly thought your personal definition was the actual definition.
Give it up already. Cut your losses. And just stay down.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 13 2017, @10:11PM (2 children)
Dude you are now reduced to disputing the FUCKING OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
The single most authoritative dictionary of the english language in existence.
Like every single dictionary pedant ever, you incorrectly thought your personal definition was the actual definition.
Give it up already. Cut your losses. And just stay down.
STFU! The OED is a librul rag like the failing NYT!
They only publish fake definitions, just like the WaPo, CNN and those fucking whores over at HuffPo, the Christian Science Monitor, McClatchey and their ilk!
They are enemies of the 'murikkan people just like you and the Oxford English Dictionary. Unabridged my ass!
So fuck you, you commie fifth columnist! Read a real 'murikkan dictionary [urbandictionary.com], asshole!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:14AM (1 child)
I sadly ran out of mod points...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:37AM
They do give out more, Bob. :) :) :)