Confronting the Urgent Crisis at Our Border
Immigration
Issued on: November 1, 2018
We will not rest until our border is secure, our citizens are safe, and we finally end the immigration crisis once and for all.
President Donald J. Trump
GROWING CRISIS: Our country is facing an urgent crisis as illegal aliens stream across our border, including a caravan of thousands heading here at this moment.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 saw the highest number of family unit apprehensions and of inadmissible aliens on record – more than 40 percent higher than any previous year.
Family unit apprehensions at the southern border have increased by a staggering 620 percent since 2013, from 14,855 to 107,212.
The number of unaccompanied minors apprehended along the southern border has grown by 171 percent since 2010.
United States Border Patrol apprehended 18,411 unaccompanied minors at the southern border in 2010, compared to 50,036 in 2018.
Catch-and-release loopholes backed by Democrats and created by activist judges have blocked us from quickly removing illegal aliens and instead allow them to remain here for years.
In FY 2000, 95 percent of apprehensions were repatriated within hours as the vast majority were adults from Mexico and not subject to outrageous loopholes.
In FY 2018, roughly 4 out every 10 aliens apprehended along the southern border face effectively no legal consequence for illegal entry due to loopholes.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of aliens claiming a fear of return at the southern border over the past several years.
The number of aliens claiming credible fear of persecution in their home countries has spiked by over 1700 percent since 2010.
While approximately 80 percent of migrants from the Northern Triangle countries claim credible fear, only 15 percent are granted asylum.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/confronting-urgent-crisis-border/
