It’s almost like telling people that if they come illegally they will not be given shelter, food, clothes, phones, money, and healthcare at the expense of taxpayers works to dissincentivezes illegal migration
Migrant arrests at US-Mexico border near record low in February
The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in February is on pace to be at or near a record monthly low, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson and two other sources told Reuters.
U.S. Border Patrol is on pace to have arrested around 8,500 migrants at the border in February as the end of the month nears, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said. Two other sources said the monthly total would be at or near a record low.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, took an array of actions to deter illegal immigration after returning to the White House on January 20, saying a crackdown was needed after high levels of migration under his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
Trump’s moves included implementing a sweeping ban on asylum at the border and surging military troops to assist border security.
U.S. Border Patrol’s monthly enforcement statistics go back to 2000. The lowest monthly total on record is currently April 2017, when the agency arrested 11,127 at the start of Trump’s first term.
So, what Trump and his folks are doing is working
The February projection would be a steep drop from the 141,000 migrant arrests in February 2024 and down from 29,000 in January, according to U.S. government figures.
That’s a pretty steep drop
- (CPB) In February 2023, there were 39,206 (25%) repeat encounters and 94,124 (61%) unique encounters on the southwest border. The number of unique individuals encountered in February 2023 was 94,124 compared to 107,959 in January 2023, a 13% decrease in the number of unique individuals encountered the prior month.
- (CNN) US Border Patrol made more than 158,000 arrests on the US southern border in February (2022), a jump from January when there were nearly 148,000 apprehensions, according to newly released agency data.
- (CPB) In February 2021, CBP encountered 100,441 persons attempting entry along the Southwest border. This total represented a 28 percent increase over January 2021. CBP completed 72,113 expulsions from the border pursuant to CDC guidance under Title 42 authority.
Steep drop from the Biden years.
Meanwhile
(Fox News) Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report any crimes committed by individuals who were admitted into the U.S. under a controversial Biden-era immigration policy.
“If we’re serious about securing our country, we need to know exactly what we’re up against,” Luttrell told Fox News Digital.
The bill, dubbed the Criminal Illegal Alien Report act, will require DHS to provide Congress with a report on crimes committed by anyone who was admitted into the U.S. under the Process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) program.
You can bet that report will be published in bold letters.
Since our borders are effectively closed, how is all the fentanyl still getting in from Canada and Mexico? We were told it was brought in by illegal aliens. No?
That’s the reason trump is placing huge tariffs on Mexico and Canada, no?
Some of it was brought through by the illegals, but the criminal suppliers are still criminals, and looking for, and doubtlessly finding, other methods.
But, once again, we see our curmudgeon commenter employing the argument that if something hasn’t worked perfectly, it should be completely abandoned. Nope, sorry, that’s not a valid point.
The Kentucky Kurmudgeon synthesizes novel but unknown methods that fentanyl is entering the US. Presumably, the counterproductive tariffs will prod Canada and Mexico to ramp up their own efforts of stopping fentanyl, since clearly closing the border hasn’t worked.
Do you believe that tariffs are the best method to reduce importing fentanyl into the US?
Tariffs are one method to encourage Mexico and Canada to take greater efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs into our country; that does not mean that they are either the best or only method. We need to try every means possible, and even then all we can do is reduce, not eliminate the flow of drugs.
The real problem is the demand side: we can’t attack only the drug producers and dealers, but need to go after the drug users as well. They need to be arrested and locked up at least long enough to detox, and have decent programs to keep them from relapsing. If that means locking them up for years, then we have to lock them up for years. If any user is a foreigner, he must be deported immediately, so that he’ll be someone else’s problem, not ours.
You can’t be nice to junkies! Junkies will destroy families and entire communities. They will leech off of families, friends and governments. The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is so bad that the Mexican government used it in their own advertisements against drug use! Maybe there’s no place around St Louis that is that bad, but I’m guessing that there are a few places around there with junkies sleeping on the sidewalks or in people’s doorways. What do they cost the city, the county, the state in dollars, what do they cost the decent people in their neighborhoods in terms of safety and quality of life?
Our esteemed host began:
The ‘Welcome!’ mat has been removed, so fewer people knock on the door. We’re still waiting to see if there’s a reduction in people trying to sneak through.