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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, @08:54PM (3 children)
Just like when those poor, urban blacks voted for Obama, they became the mainstream/establishment?
Do you even hear yourself?
Obama was not a "poor urban black" nor was anyone in his administration.
But Steve Bananas is Trump's closest advisor, Steve Miller and Ghorka are also part of his inner circle and Jeff Sessions is head of the DoJ.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 13 2017, @08:59PM (2 children)
Just like when those poor, urban blacks voted for Obama, they became the mainstream/establishment?
Do you even hear yourself?
I sure do, but apparently you don't. The grandparent stated that people who voted for Trump were now mainstream and establishment because Trump and some other "alt-right" candidates won in 2016. I merely pointed out a similar group from the 2008 and 2012 elections who did the same thing and didn't become mainstream and establishment as a result.
Obama was not a "poor urban black" nor was anyone in his administration. But Steve Bananas is Trump's closest advisor, Steve Miller and Ghorka are also part of his inner circle and Jeff Sessions is head of the DoJ.
These weren't alt-right voters. Sorry, not the same thing.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday March 13 2017, @11:31PM (1 child)
I think you missed my point, you're taking me too literally. Firstly, I never levelled my charge against everyone who voted for Trump, I was referring to "alt-right dipshits". There's a big intersection on that venn diagram, but it isn't complete.
Secondly, I was pointing out that the alt-right, which has been raised on a diet of manufactured persecution complex, can no longer play the victim card. They never could, legitimately, but now even the pretence has been taken from them. It doesn't matter whether Trump really is their man or not (obviously he's not, he's only ever looking out for Donald), unless the orange one metamorphs overnight into a so-called SJW, the alt-right can no longer pretend to be oppressed by some kind of mythical left-wing dominatrix, forcing wealth distribution and political correct language and straight bananas on everyone.
I've stated here before that I don't think the alt-right can survive the transition from loony guerilla trollforce at the fringes of sanity to mainstream political organisation, but that is exactly what they must do[1] now that they've taken office. They have to either abandon the paranoid anti-establishment narrative that defines them (entirely possible, just re-write the narrative and hope most followers go along with it rather than rebel, but then they haven't so much "survived" as "evolved"[2]) or they will turn against their masters and devour them (also possible, if the Whitehouse fails to live up to Trump's campaign promises and he followers refuse to swallow the excuses - see the ultra-right-wing response to TrumpCare for an idea of how that might play out.).
[1] When I say they "must" do it, I mean that's the only way they can survive as a movement. I personally don't think the movement "must" survive at all, I'd be quite happy to watch the whole thing implode.
[2] That's a more literal meaning of "evolved" as in "changed in to something different", not necessarily the more metaphorical meaning of "improved oneself or changed for the better". Quite ironic given that the whole movement was intelligently designed in the first place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:48AM
I think you missed my point, you're taking me too literally.
That one sentence sums up callow's entire existence.