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, @06:27PM (1 child)
I have a neighbor, who lives a quarter mile down the road. He comes on my property
blah, blah
hugely flawed analogy
blahdity, blah, blah
This country is not your property.
That word, "bigot", doesn't mean what you think it means.
bigoted [oxforddictionaries.com]
adjective
Obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, and intolerant towards other people's beliefs and practices.
Nope, I think they know exactly what bigot means.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 14 2017, @01:45AM
I have a neighbor, who lives a quarter mile down the road. He comes on my property
blah, blah
hugely flawed analogy
blahdity, blah, blah
This country is not your property.
That word, "bigot", doesn't mean what you think it means.
bigoted
adjective
Obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, and intolerant towards other people's beliefs and practices.
Nope, I think they know exactly what bigot means.
I'd also add that Runaway1956 is a fanatic [quoteinvestigator.com] in the sense often attributed to Winston Churchill [brainyquote.com]:
Just sayin'.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr