Arrests of illegal immigrants on U.S. borders down
Seems like more man power, not fences are having and effect, not to mention actually enforcing existing laws. I also wonder why illegal Mexicans are apparently not being detained.
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Illegal immigrants captured on U.S. borders down 23 percent in nine months
Officials say enforcement having deterrent effect on illegal immigration
Official: Use of National Guard troops along Southwest border may be a factor
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The number of illegal immigrants arrested along U.S. borders dropped 23 percent during the past nine months — evidence, officials said, that stepped-up enforcement is working.
The Border Patrol captured 695,841 people nationwide in the first three quarters of fiscal year 2007, down from 907,445 for the same period the previous fiscal year, or a 23 percent drop, said Border Patrol spokesman Michael Friel.
Arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border declined by 24 percent, he said.
Border Patrol officials said the reasons for the change are varied and complex, but Friel said, “We’re clearly seeing a deterrent.”
One factor cited by officials is the end of the practice of releasing non-Mexican immigrants, pending court hearings.
The Border Patrol captured 50,349 non-Mexican illegal immigrants nationwide in the nine-month period ending June 30, down from 89,952 during the same period of fiscal 2006. That’s a 44 percent decrease. The decrease was 48 percent for non-Mexican illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Other factors include the 6,000 National Guard troops patrolling along the Southwest border, more detention space and enhanced enforcement in the interior, Friel said.
Outside economic, political and social factors also are “always involved” in fluctuating levels of immigrants seeking entry into the United States, he said.
Last month, opponents effectively killed President Bush’s long-fought and emotion-laden immigration bill in the Senate when members voted against advancing the legislation.
The bill aimed to create a path to citizenship for some of the 12 million illegal immigrants and to toughen border security.
Supporters and opponents of the legislation said that it probably won’t be resurrected until the 2008 elections are over.
A friend of mine lives on the Arizona border with Mexico. He has a plane and does specialized surveillance and tries to get the information to Congress. He should be called to testify as an expert, but I believe our government doesn’t want such powerful and credible testimony. It would expose substantial crime and malfeasance in our government.
Here’s a link to his daily “features”. Just scroll down the list and pick a topic or two and check them out. Each topic includes embedded links to support the assertions made. This archive is invaluable! Here’s the link:
Our government, both parties, really don’t want anything to interfere with their adgenda of bringing more illegals in.
Our government is full of crime and corruption, which is actually crime.
preussow in his post #2 states the exact truth, in my opinion.
I say AMEN!
I listened to former Senator Rick Santorum, a supposed “conservative” of my Republican party on a very recent Hugh Hewitt radio show. I remember being very disturbed at what he was saying at the time. And here’s part of an article where the same conclusion is drawn. And before I add the excerpt, let me just reinforce what preussow states: IT IS BOTH PARTIES! THEY HAVE AN AGENDA AND THEY COULD GIVE A HOOT AS TO WHAT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WANT OR EVEN DEMAND.
Here’s the excerpt:
“In an alarming display of fearmongering, Republican Senator Rick
Santorum has suggested that a series of “unfortunate events,” namely
terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American
citizen’s perception of the war.
Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum also hyped the
necessity of “confronting Iran in the Middle East,” and predicted that
Giuliani, Romney and Tommy Thompson would be the three surviving
Republican candidates who would go head to head in the race for the
nomination.
Santorum went on to clearly imply that terror attacks will occur
inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a
reversal of the anti-war sentiment now dominating the country.
I hope someone is watching Santorum closely.
He sure seems to know a lot about terrorist attacks that haven’t happened yet.
Of course, if our history of
“government intelligence” is any indicator of the future… Santorum is completely wrong and we’re actually headed toward a period of peace and global prosperity. Fear-mongering indeed.
The movie “Sicko” had a noteworthy line in it. It came from an American living in France describing the difference between the American public and the French public (according to this individual’s perception).
“In France the government is afraid of the people, in America the people are afraid of the government.”
So true.
Great Post, captain_menace!
That is true about government and the people, however, we have seen people cause government to back down when we rise up as was the case with Dubai Ports, and the recent back down on this immigration bill they are still trying to find a way to pass.
However, in France you have the people who are causing the government to make bad policies so they still don’t win.
Here we have government that has also made a lot of bad decisions over the last 70 years in both parties because they wanted “votes” and “campaign donations” and so while they didn’t “fear” the people, they also were “for sale” to the highest bidders which were sometimes voters or blocks of voters with powerful lobbies or swing vote blocks.
So, while the base in both parties wondered why their parties were not catering to them, the parties were catering to “swing independent voters” and assuming the base would vote for them because “the other party was worse.”
Now with the independent voters outnumbering the two parties, it is getting even worse.
Both France and the U.S. are in deep trouble due to socialism but there are certainly differences in the governments and who they cater to the most.
Working groups, think tanks, trade agreements, hidden agendas. It’s called the NORTH AMERICAN UNION. (And don’t forget about the NAFTA Superhighway a.k.a. SHAFTA SUPERSH-TWAY)
And these things can only be enforced by a POLICE STATE, (which can only come about with the help of more TERROR!!)
If this were a report about Iraq – the WH would call it “progress”
Actually…who wants to bet that if they respond to this, they’ll cite the report as a sign of progress?
“Our government is full of crime and corruption, which is actually crime.”
Well, since we live in a representative democracy doesn’t that make all of us corrupt criminals? Our representatives generally only have one way of becoming a representative… [DRUMROLL]… elections!
So… either the system is rigged, or we are just crappy judges of character. Which do you think is the primary problem? And more importantly, who should we blame for the problem?
BTW, I don’t think corruption is inherently criminal… it’s just not nice.
Our system is rigged and Americans have been had. Time for TERM LIMITS!
I agree with hoads. I also think the people should be the ones who vote on how much to pay the elected instead of the elected voting on their pay raise.