In an interview in which she was far too nice, Tony snow claimed 1.3 million border apprehensions as being an "unprecedented level." Of course, this is a lie. There were actually 1.8 million apprehensions in 2000, a year before he took office and the average was much higher for the six years before his term than since.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/stat ... s_2004.pdf

To make matters more humorous, Bush has tried to claim that lower apprehensions are actually a GOOD sign, while now claiming the opposite.


[quote]“When you apprehended fewer people, that means fewer were trying to come across,â€