Record number of migrant families arrested while crossing U.S. border in December

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Source: Washington Post

National Security
Record number of migrant families arrested while crossing U.S. border in December

By Nick Miroff
Reporter covering immigration enforcement, drug trafficking and national security
January 9 at 10:02 AM

A busy December set a record for the number of migrant parents and children taken into custody, as U.S. border agents arrested 27,518 members of “family units,” according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics obtained by The Washington Post.

Overall, authorities detained 60,782 migrants attempting to enter the United States without authorization. It marked the third consecutive month that the figure — the most widely used barometer of border trends — topped 60,000, remaining near the highest levels of the Trump presidency.

President Trump cited the soaring numbers during a prime-time address Tuesday, urging Democrats to approve his $5.7 billion border wall plan, calling the arrival of so many families a “crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”

[How the administration’s breathless numbers about dangers on the border stack up] (1)
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Nick Miroff covers immigration enforcement, drug trafficking and the Department of Homeland Security on The Washington Post’s National Security desk. He was a Post foreign correspondent in Latin America from 2010 to 2017, and has been a staff writer since 2006. Follow https://twitter.com/NickMiroff

(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/08/how-administrations-breathless-numbers-about-dangers-border-stack-up/

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David Fahrenthold Retweeted

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BREAKING family unit arrests at the border reached a new high in December, latest CBP figures show. But numbers have abruptly fallen in January and no one is sure why

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[Ohiogal]

1. Wow, that's a real scary looking terrorist there

playing with her ball and wearing a fuzzy pink sleeper!

[tulipsandroses]

2. I am so scared by those family units. Look at her, I am shaking in my boots

That pink balloon, those pink jammies, I can't stand it. I need to take cover all that cuteness has me petrified.

[at140]

3. With American birth rates dropping,

we can use more migrants. I am willing to pay a bit more in taxes to help the migrants.

[Rural_Progressive]

4. We had a lot to do with creating the mess in Central America

I was raised to understand that if I made a mess it was my responsibility to clean it up. Apparently the members of the "Party of Personal Responsibility" didn't get that mentioned in their upbringing.

[anarch]

5. I have to wonder how "more arrested" relates to the number of families attempting to enter the U.S.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was an initiative over the past few months to arrest as many brown people as possible in the vicinity of the border, whether they were coming over to visit family and then heading back the same evening, or who the hell knows what other reason that was not a threat to the integrity of the border...hell, there was also an initiative to try to identify and prosecute (or persecute?) latinx individuals who had been born near the border under the care of a midwife, or otherwise not in a hospital, under the pretense that there was no way to really verify if they'd been born on the U.S. side, and their citizenship should be revoked. So...I mean...

Anyway, the crisis with respect to the Kiddie Koncentration Kamps that our tax dollars are now paying for was entirely created by Stephen Miller's "no tolerance; separate all families at the border and steal their children muahahahaha" policy. We need to remedy this situation as soon as possible.

[DENVERPOPS]

6. I agree

The Privately owned corporate prison system is getting stuffed.
One article said the Private Prisons are being paid 750.00 A DAY for each person they incarcerate......
Many Private prisons were being closed around the nation because they didn't have enough prisoners, so I guess this takes care of that problem and makes certain their profits!!!!!!!

When are the Republicans, especially the Republican Senate put a stop to this insanity?????
Never.........The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporations of America.
It shouldn't be the United States of America, But more realistically the United Corporations of America....

WASF

[at140]

7. I am a brown immigrant and wish to

Thank sincerely United States for approving my permanent resident visa (green card). After 5 years on that visa, I became eligible to apply for citizenship and it was approved as well. Doing it all legally was a long and difficult process.