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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:34 PM Apr 2019

New Government Data Shows Trump Wanted to Close the Wrong Border

In January, with the government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s insistence on a border wall, the White House began pushing a new talking point: 17,000 criminals had been arrested at the southern border in the previous year, according to Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

In fact, according to previously unreleased government data obtained by Mother Jones, the government was vastly exaggerating the number of criminals arriving at the southern border. That is because criminals are nearly three times as likely to be caught by Customs and Border Protection officers at the country’s northern border.

Last week, Trump threatened to close official ports of entry along the Mexican border, citing security concerns. But of the foreigners convicted of crimes in the United States or abroad who were stopped by CBP at ports of entry from October 2016 to February 2019, 43 percent arrived at the northern border, 42 percent at airports or ports, and just 15 percent at the southern border, according to a CBP spokeswoman.

A smaller number of people with criminal histories were apprehended between ports of entry by Border Patrol agents. The new data suggests that if 2018’s numbers were in line with the figures for the past two and a half years, CBP officers and Border Patrol agents actually stopped fewer than 9,000 criminals at the southern border last year, not 17,000

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/new-government-data-shows-trump-wanted-to-close-the-wrong-border/

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New Government Data Shows Trump Wanted to Close the Wrong Border (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
He is so "good with numbers" like his princess/wife Ivanka. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #1
There is literally no data from the tRumpy administration that can be believed. NoMoreRepugs Apr 2019 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. He is so "good with numbers" like his princess/wife Ivanka.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:41 PM
Apr 2019

He was thinking of making her head of the World Bank. Fucking morons breed fucking morons in the tRump clan.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,257 posts)
2. There is literally no data from the tRumpy administration that can be believed.
Fri Apr 12, 2019, 04:43 PM
Apr 2019

Think about that for a minute - nothing they say can be counted on to be accurate without being checked.

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