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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: libertybele on May 16, 2019, 02:15:33 am

Title: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping numbe
Post by: libertybele on May 16, 2019, 02:15:33 am
***@Jazzhead, please take note.

Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping numbers


    109,144 individuals were apprehended at the border in April alone.
    103,492 illegal and inadmissible aliens were apprehended by during the month of March alone.
    76,325 apprehensions occurred in February.
    Border arrests have reached their highest point in 12 years.
    February numbers showed a 1,744% increase in asylum claims.
    Family unit apprehensions by Border Patrol jumped 311% during the first five months of this fiscal year over the first five months of last fiscal year.
    4,117 migrants were apprehended on a single day in March.
 ***   Just 6% of the people crossing the border are expressing a credible fear and requesting asylum in one sector, according to an immigration official.
    A recent survey found that one-third of Guatemala’s population wants to come to the U.S.
    Over 1% of the entire populations of Guatemala and Honduras have entered the United States this fiscal year, according to DHS.
    There are at least 1.9 million known criminal aliens sitting in U.S. jails.
    Human smugglers are running radio ads in Central America, according to a Border Patrol official.
    ICE is having to reallocate resources to deal with “fake families” trying to manipulate border policies.
    Now Border Patrol reports that children are also being rented and “recycled” to defraud immigration officials.
    Catch-and-release policies also sent an estimated 7,000 illegal immigrants into Tuscon, Ariz., over an eight-month period alone.
    Border Patrol agents in Texas over just the last week apprehended 5,500 migrants per day.

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/poll-finds-americans-dont-realize-bad-border-crisis-eye-popping-numbers/ (https://www.conservativereview.com/news/poll-finds-americans-dont-realize-bad-border-crisis-eye-popping-numbers/)
Title: Re: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping n
Post by: Chosen Daughter on May 16, 2019, 03:26:40 am
Its time politicians get off their fat butts and do something about this.  It is sad that people don't realize this.   But our government knows and does nothing.
Title: Re: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping n
Post by: Sanguine on May 16, 2019, 03:30:00 am
Its time politicians get off their fat butts and do something about this.  It is sad that people don't realize this.   But our government knows and does nothing.

Yep.  Maybe someday we will understand their solid lack of action.  I sure don't now.
Title: Re: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping n
Post by: dfwgator on May 16, 2019, 03:56:59 am
Its time politicians get off their fat butts and do something about this.  It is sad that people don't realize this.   But our government knows and does nothing.

Garbage In, Garbage Out.   If the citizens are clueless, politicians ain't gonna help.
Title: Re: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping n
Post by: libertybele on May 17, 2019, 03:29:50 am
Yep.  Maybe someday we will understand their solid lack of action.  I sure don't now.

Unfortunately, I think we're about to find out soon enough and I have a hunch we're not going to like it.
Title: Re: Poll finds most Americans don’t realize how bad the border crisis is. Here are the eye-popping n
Post by: Sanguine on May 17, 2019, 03:39:27 am
Unfortunately, I think we're about to find out soon enough and I have a hunch we're not going to like it.

I'm with you on that, whatever it is we aren't going to like it.