August Border Arrests Continue to Drop

[rangerrebew]

August Border Arrests Continue to Drop


Published: 
Wed, Sep 4th 2019 @ 3:53 pm EDT

The number of aliens caught crossing the southwest border continued a sharp decline in August, according to preliminary figures obtained by Politico. U.S. Border Patrol arrested roughly 51,000 migrants in August, a 30 percent drop from the previous month.

Although it is commonplace to see a dip in arrests at the southern border during the hot summer months, the Trump Administration persists the latest figures signal that recent bilateral agreements between the governments of Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S. may be reducing the number of border crossers. Border arrests rose from July to August in eight of the last 10 years, which suggests the current drop is not related to recent historical patterns.

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/august-border-arrests-continue-drop

[Fishrrman]

While I never really could fathom that Mr. Trump would make Mexico "pay for the wall", he seems to have done a fair job at making Mexico take at least minimal-to-modest control of illegals moving northward across its own southern border.

And, hence, to OUR southern border.

Far from the goal, which of course is NO illegal entries (or a very few).
But some progress, indeed.