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In January, with the government shutdown over President Donald Trumps 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 countrys 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 2018s 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/
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)He was thinking of making her head of the World Bank. Fucking morons breed fucking morons in the tRump clan.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,257 posts)Think about that for a minute - nothing they say can be counted on to be accurate without being checked.