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April was another record month for illegal immigration

Daniel Horowitz · May 9, 2019
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The problem with waiting months to act decisively at the border is that we become accustomed to the new normal of record border numbers.


According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), April set yet another record, with a total of 109,000 apprehensions at the southwest border. Unless the administration harnesses this news and calls for a complete shutoff of immigration processing at the border, it’s unlikely that the numbers will fall significantly. The partial measures being pursued currently might have worked a year ago when we warned about the tsunami, but not now that we are squarely in the storm.
Here are the key takeaways from the April CBP border report:

• In total, 109,144 individuals were apprehended at the border – 98,977 between points of entry and 10,167 at points of entry. This is the highest number in 12 years, it is very likely the highest number of unique individuals of all time, given that many in the past were the same individuals deported multiple times within the same week, while almost all of these are first-timers.
• The 58,474 individuals in family units set another record, but an increasing number of people are also coming as single adults, 31,606. The overwhelming number of single adults are from Mexico, while most of the family units and unaccompanied teens are from Central America.
• The increases over the previous month seemed to be from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), El Paso, and Yuma sectors, the three busiest corridors in absolute numbers. Overall, for this fiscal year, every sector has seen a massive increase in family units.
• Guatemala still leads the pack for the most migrants coming in all categories, followed by Honduras, with a sharp drop-off for Salvadorans. Overall, 301,900 Guatemalans were apprehended at and between points of entry since the beginning of fiscal year 2018. In other words, in just 19 months, 1.7 percent of Guatemala’s population came to our border, and that is on top of the 815,000 Guatemalan nationals who already lived here, most of them illegally. A recent poll showed that a third of Guatemalans would like to immigrate to the U.S. A total of 224,078 Hondurans have come since FY 2018, 2.4 percent of the population. That is on top of the 623,000 already here. This means that the size of these countries’ populations in America equal roughly 6.6 percent and 9.2 percent of their respective populations in Guatemala and Honduras. “Only” 79,000 have come from El Salvador over the past 19 months, but because they dominated the Central American migration in previous years, we already had 1.4 million Salvadorans in this country as of last year, representing roughly 22 percent of their entire homeland population!

Has the trajectory been bent? Will the numbers go down in May? Well, CBP reported on Tuesday that during the first week in May, there were 10,000 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley, a new weekly record. During the 30 days of April, there were 36,681 apprehensions in the RGV. It is therefore clear that the message has not yet gone out to Central America that we are no longer tolerating this violation of sovereignty.


Unlike in the past, when mainly single adults were coming over and were immediately repatriated, most of these individuals are being released. ICE has released 168,000 just since December 21, and that number doesn’t include the 33,000 released by CBP directly without ever being processed in an ICE holding facility since March 19. If these individuals are never repatriated, the lifetime cost to taxpayers, as estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies, would be roughly $30 billion.


This is the part of the crisis that is never discussed. The philosophical problem with the approach of our government over the past year is that when circumstances such as lack of detention space create a scenario where our laws cannot be implemented properly, they err on the side of the alien and not on the side of the American people.


Our laws require that every alien, including those seeking asylum and even those approved for it, be detained throughout the entire process. Moreover, our laws require that these economic migrants be immediately placed into expedited removal. Any appeal of a credible fear denial must be handled within a day and no later than seven days, according to existing law. Why should the fact that they flood us with invasion levels of migrants strengthen their hands to achieve the very intent of their mission? Why should the fact that they increase the illegal smuggling to levels that can’t be detained result in rewarding the cartels with catch-and-release and making Americans pay for the crime, gangs, drugs, lack of security checkpoints, fiscal costs, cultural problems in the schools, and the health risks?


Part of the problem is that the desires of the aliens are individualized and immediately apparent before the TV cameras. The harm they cause to Americans – both directly through fiscal, security, and health concerns and indirectly by draining off resources and empowering the cartels and gangs – are long-term, less apparent, and often go unreported. Nobody sees a rapist right at the border, but there are sadly plenty of people like Juan Leon-Gomez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, who is now charged with raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl and keeping her in his closet. The TV cameras show 16-year-olds in need at the border, but they won’t show you how 40 percent of those caught in a recent MS-13 sting were border teens who were resettled as refugees.


The entire purpose of our federal government is to care for Americans, not foreign invaders.
Today, as the DHS announces the unprecedented data from April, would be the most auspicious time for the president to announce a complete shutoff of all cross-border migration of those who show up without documentation. Unless he acts now, the American people will become used to the cartels and illegal aliens pouring over our border as the new normal.

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Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

April was another record month for illegal immigration

The entire purpose of our federal government is to care for Americans, not foreign invaders.
Today, as the DHS announces the unprecedented data from April, would be the most auspicious time for the president to announce a complete shutoff of all cross-border migration of those who show up without documentation. Unless he acts now, the American people will become used to the cartels and illegal aliens pouring over our border as the new normal.

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Yes, it would!

It appears that way too many have already accepted this as the new normal, or don't even know it is going on.

One Forever Trumper was spreading the word that they are all waiting in Mexico.



their comment

in the months to come, as more and more asylum seekers are left on the south side of the border, we will start getting reports of less and less illegals attempting to get into america...trumps policies will start paying off this summer!
KAG 2020!!
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What stories have you been reading? No such thing is happening, that I am aware of. The illegals are indeed making it across our border and then getting lost.
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the Forever Trumper

did you read this story?! asylum seekers are being placed on the south side of the border...
did you read the story about the two tents that have ALREADY gone up, and the plans for dozens more?
did you read the story about the 'quick dna' test kits that have ALREADY been distributed to border agents, ice, and immigrations courts to combat phony family migration claims?
there's this thing, it's called a search engine... type in "huge tents on mexican border" (it's a cbs story, so you leftists can stomach it just fine...)
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Have your fun, Fred. Our border is simply being over run by illegals, and you're reading fairy tales. I've seen those those stories, and it's just more hogwash for the masses. And try to keep this one thing is mind when you address a comment in my direction. I'm not a leftist. If you actually believe that, then you haven't followed my comments here on these boards.
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the Forever Trumper
your pessimism is understandable... however, you have to look at the facts:
a. 80% of central american immigrants are "asylum seekers"
b. the new policy calls for asylum seekers to be stopped at the border and not allowed in
they are given a court date and escorted SOUTH of the u.s. border
c. 170 new judges are being assigned to the border to hear immigration cases, ONLY!
d. dna kits are being distributed to combat a huge problem of fraudulent chain migration cases.
e. word is getting back to central america that the free ride is ending...
all of this is going to work... you will see a DRAMATIC decrease in the numbers coming from central america THIS SUMMER!

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

Yes, it would!

It appears that way too many have already accepted this as the new normal, or don't even know it is going on.

One Forever Trumper was spreading the word that they are all waiting in Mexico.



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I haven't excepted this as the new norm. I'm still looking for 1 SINGLE person to go to an overpass with me and start protesting this outrage every weekend. My signs are min. 4 by 7 feet and need 2 people to hold them up.

Originally Posted by tonyklo

I haven't excepted this as the new norm. I'm still looking for 1 SINGLE person to go to an overpass with me and start protesting this outrage every weekend. My signs are min. 4 by 7 feet and need 2 people to hold them up.

I just filled out my profile today. I live in Texas. Where do you live? I have been looking for a peaceful demonstration around here. I can't find one.

I am in Maryland...I want this stopped now!

Get the ones already here off our soil.