Thread: Arrest numbers signal 9 percent jump in illegal immigration in 2012

Tell the DHS to release the FY2012 Border Apprehension Numbers -- which have increased.

They are three months overdue

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Maybe they just did ... been pushing really hard for two months ..... it has been a long slog ... with literally 1,000's of emails, including multiple emails to all major newspapers, all of Congress, tweets, facebook posts, ad infinitum.

from the article:

Even as President Obama travels to Las Vegas Tuesday to call for legalizing illegal immigrants, the latest numbers from the U.S. Border Patrol suggest that the flow across the nation’s southwest border jumped by 9 percent last year.

The Border Patrol made 356,873 arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2012, up from 327,577 in 2011, according to figures obtained by the Associated Press and confirmed by The Washington Times. Border Patrol officials estimate that apprehensions are a good proxy for illegal crossings, so when the numbers go up, it means that the flow of illegal immigrants is going up as well.

just emailed DHS/CBP asking if they have officially released the end of the fiscal year (FY2012) numbers

which aren't yet shown on their website
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_se...bp_statistics/