Thread: Illegal Immigration Now Far More Dangerous Than Five Years Ago

Customs and Border Protection chief Kevin McAleenan reports huge increases in unaccompanied children, criminal activity

By Connor D. Wolf | Friday, July 27, 2018

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Friday far more unaccompanied children and family units have crossed into the U.S. illegally since 2013 than ever before.

“It’s really a dramatic difference, over the last five years even,” McAleenan said during a conference hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. “We usually always had single adults, and usually males. 90 percent through 2008 were single adults. Now we’re seeing this year a full 40 percent crossing our border or either children unaccompanied, that’s 15 percent, or family units, 25 percent.”

The changes were occurring over decades but accelerated dramatically during the past five years. Criminals have also taken control of more of the routes illegal aliens frequently use in coming to the U.S., he said. He cited a Doctors Without Borders study that found 68 percent of immigrants reported being victims of violence on those routes.

“Two-thirds of the migrants in the hands of smugglers are facing crime in the process,” McAleenan said. “They’re assaulted, they’re robbed, they’re extorted. And this is a really concerning stat, one-third of women and girls are assaulted in this process. And this is happening when they’re going through Mexico at the hands of transnational criminal organizations.”

McAleenan was interrupted several times by protesters in the audience who shouted references to illegal immigrant families being separated at the border.

McAleenan said there has also been a major increase in the illegal immigrants without documentation claiming asylum.

“From 2000 to 2013, fewer than one percent of those apprehended between ports of entry or encountered without documents at our ports claimed asylum,” McAleenan said. “Now we’re at 20 percent on average just on CBP. And then additional asylum claims are made to ICE officers.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced May 7 that federal officials would begin strictly enforcing all existing immigration laws. Among the unintended consequences of the crackdown was an increase in illegal immigrant families being temporarily separated while their asylum claims are investigated.

The asylum process typically takes longer than the 20 day maximum that immigration officials are allowed to keep children and parents separated.

Yet another significant change in immigration patterns, according to McAleenan, is the severe decrease in Mexican nationals crossing illegally, with 2009 becoming the first year the number dropped below 90 percent. Three of the past five years have been more than 50 percent of illegal immigrants who aren’t Mexican nationals.

https://www.lifezette.com/2018/07/il...n-5-years-ago/

The press tells us how terrible we are to separate families and yet hispanics think nothing of sending their unaccompanied children across the border to live off the hated gringos.