Chuck and Nancy: crisis, what crisis?
The El Paso Sector, covering some 270 border miles in westernmost Texas and the whole stretch across New Mexico, used to be one of the least eventful. During the slow months of October 2011 to January 2012, it averaged about 20 apprehensions of illegal border crossers a day—a rather light workload for an agent force of 2,400 (pdf).
Fast forward to those same months seven years later, and the workload has increased more than 14-fold, while the workforce remains the same.
Different Crisis
Along the whole southwest border, apprehensions reached more than 200,000 so far in fiscal 2019, up some 84 percent from the same period the year before.
While it’s true that two decades ago the Border Patrol was catching more than double the trespassers it does today, Cordero cautioned against simple comparisons.
Back then, most of the trespassers were adult Mexican men, whom Border Patrol is skilled at promptly turning around.
“We can process them, send right back within a couple of hours,” he said.
Most now are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Through propaganda being spread in those countries, the migrants believe that if they cross the U.S. border with a child, the United States will let them in, Cordero said. And they’re not wrong. U.S. immigration laws don’t allow deportation of non-Mexican minors to Mexico. They also can’t be held in detention for more than 20 days. Most of the current migrants “go through a completely different process” than was common before, Cordero said. “It’s tying our hands.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/borde...s-try-to-overwhelm-us-agent-says_2801704.html
It's dumbfounding how tone deaf the Democrats are due to their hatred of Trump. So they're willing to put the rights of illegal aliens ahead of citizens. I don't know how anyone here can defend their actions. Unless they themselves are illegal. Any wetbacks here?
The El Paso Sector, covering some 270 border miles in westernmost Texas and the whole stretch across New Mexico, used to be one of the least eventful. During the slow months of October 2011 to January 2012, it averaged about 20 apprehensions of illegal border crossers a day—a rather light workload for an agent force of 2,400 (pdf).
Fast forward to those same months seven years later, and the workload has increased more than 14-fold, while the workforce remains the same.
Different Crisis
Along the whole southwest border, apprehensions reached more than 200,000 so far in fiscal 2019, up some 84 percent from the same period the year before.
While it’s true that two decades ago the Border Patrol was catching more than double the trespassers it does today, Cordero cautioned against simple comparisons.
Back then, most of the trespassers were adult Mexican men, whom Border Patrol is skilled at promptly turning around.
“We can process them, send right back within a couple of hours,” he said.
Most now are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Through propaganda being spread in those countries, the migrants believe that if they cross the U.S. border with a child, the United States will let them in, Cordero said. And they’re not wrong. U.S. immigration laws don’t allow deportation of non-Mexican minors to Mexico. They also can’t be held in detention for more than 20 days. Most of the current migrants “go through a completely different process” than was common before, Cordero said. “It’s tying our hands.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/borde...s-try-to-overwhelm-us-agent-says_2801704.html
It's dumbfounding how tone deaf the Democrats are due to their hatred of Trump. So they're willing to put the rights of illegal aliens ahead of citizens. I don't know how anyone here can defend their actions. Unless they themselves are illegal. Any wetbacks here?
