bluetick wrote:How many people are crossing the border illegally?
There’s no official measure of how many people succeed in illegally crossing the border, but authorities use the number of apprehensions to gauge changes in illegal immigration. Apprehensions on the Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 303,916 in 2017.
Those numbers, which come from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are for fiscal years and date back to 1960.
the number of apprehensions based on past administrations who had little desire to push for strict immigration laws?
secondly, we're not talking about a yearly issue, we're talking about the cumulative number of people who illegally enter the United States, our politicians determining that they are here and the effort to send them back is too much. Those numbers are in the millions now with the end game being amnesty and American Citizenship.
When Reagan teamed up with Ted Kennedy to push for the amnesty in their time
"This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.’"
well that's the truth because they're going to push for one much, much larger.
