Common
08-15-2016, 07:31 AM
The liberals on here last week were telling us immigration has almost stopped because there are no jobs. I told them then that was a lie
Illegal immigration surges past 2015 total with two months still to go in fiscal year
Illegal immigration in 2016 has already surpassed 2015 with two months still to go in the fiscal year, driven by a renewed surge of illegal immigrant children and families from Central America attempting to sneak into the U.S.
Nearly 34,000 people were caught at the southwest border in July, up 5,000 compared to a year ago. And that brings the total for the first 10 months of the fiscal year to more than 332,000, which puts it ahead of all 12 months of 2015, according to Border Patrol statistics released late last week.
The surge has been powered chiefly by a new increase in the number of children and families from Central America attempting to sneak into the U.S., pushed by violence at home and lured by the hope of amnesty from the Obama administration (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/) here. More than 7,500 people traveling as families were nabbed along the border, and another 5,068 children traveling alone were also caught.
The numbers are all the more troubling because they show an increase just as the peak of summer hits — a time when, officials say, the hot weather usually tamps down on the flow. But July saw increases in both children and families trying to cross the border.
Perhaps anticipating the surge, the Obama administration (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/) last month announced a series of new programs designed to allow children and their extended relatives to apply for passage to the U.S. from their home countries. The goal is to pressure them into safer routes, rather than have them make the harrowing journey through Mexico.
Homeland Security officials saw a glass-half-full situation in the numbers, pointing to a slight drop in the overall number of illegal immigrants caught — which slipped 2 percent from June to July — as evidence things may be turning in the right direction.
“Overall apprehensions by the Border Patrol in July along our southwest border — an indicator of total attempts to cross the border illegally — fell during the month of July, although apprehensions of unaccompanied children and family units increased somewhat from June. These trends are generally in line with seasonal patterns we have observed in previous years,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security agency that oversees the Border Patrol, said in releas
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/14/illegal-immigration-surges-past-2015-total-with-tw/
Illegal immigration surges past 2015 total with two months still to go in fiscal year
Illegal immigration in 2016 has already surpassed 2015 with two months still to go in the fiscal year, driven by a renewed surge of illegal immigrant children and families from Central America attempting to sneak into the U.S.
Nearly 34,000 people were caught at the southwest border in July, up 5,000 compared to a year ago. And that brings the total for the first 10 months of the fiscal year to more than 332,000, which puts it ahead of all 12 months of 2015, according to Border Patrol statistics released late last week.
The surge has been powered chiefly by a new increase in the number of children and families from Central America attempting to sneak into the U.S., pushed by violence at home and lured by the hope of amnesty from the Obama administration (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/) here. More than 7,500 people traveling as families were nabbed along the border, and another 5,068 children traveling alone were also caught.
The numbers are all the more troubling because they show an increase just as the peak of summer hits — a time when, officials say, the hot weather usually tamps down on the flow. But July saw increases in both children and families trying to cross the border.
Perhaps anticipating the surge, the Obama administration (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/barack-obama/) last month announced a series of new programs designed to allow children and their extended relatives to apply for passage to the U.S. from their home countries. The goal is to pressure them into safer routes, rather than have them make the harrowing journey through Mexico.
Homeland Security officials saw a glass-half-full situation in the numbers, pointing to a slight drop in the overall number of illegal immigrants caught — which slipped 2 percent from June to July — as evidence things may be turning in the right direction.
“Overall apprehensions by the Border Patrol in July along our southwest border — an indicator of total attempts to cross the border illegally — fell during the month of July, although apprehensions of unaccompanied children and family units increased somewhat from June. These trends are generally in line with seasonal patterns we have observed in previous years,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security agency that oversees the Border Patrol, said in releas
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/14/illegal-immigration-surges-past-2015-total-with-tw/