Nearly 1 million migrants arrested along Mexico border in fiscal year 2019, most since 2007

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

The number of migrants taken into custody along the U.S. southern border soared to nearly 1 million during the government’s 2019 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to Trump administration data released Tuesday. The unauthorized crossings from Mexico into the United States marked the highest volume in 12 years, amid a record influx of Central American families that peaked during the Spring, overwhelming U.S. agents, border stations and immigration courtrooms.

Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters at a White House briefing that just more than 52,000 migrants were taken into custody — including those deemed inadmissible to the country — in September at U.S. ports of entry and between them. It was a decline of 18 percent from August.

Overall, U.S. border authorities made more than 975,000 arrests during the 2019 fiscal year, according to the latest data. Morgan said arrests increased 88 percent during the 2019 fiscal year, calling it a “staggering” increase. “These are numbers no immigration system in the world is designed to handle,” he said. Arrests by U.S. border agents reached an all-time high of 1.6 million in 2000, but Department of Homeland Security officials insist that the migration wave they faced this year is unlike anything in the past.

A generation ago, most of the migrants crossing the border illegally were single adults from Mexico who could be quickly processed and deported. This year, Central American parents with children became the overwhelming majority of border crossers. Instead of seeking to evade capture, many sought out U.S. agents to surrender and stated a fear of being sent home, the first step in seeking asylum or another form of legal protection in the United States.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/nearly-1-million-migrants-arrested-along-mexico-border-in-fiscal-2019-most-since-2007/2019/10/08/749413e4-e9d4-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html

[pecosbob]

1. They're probably simply counting asylum seekers among those arrested

The administration will try to pump some made-up sunshine up the racist's skirts between now and next year.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Yup.

[Newest Reality]

3. But it's beneficial?

Now that this policy is in full play, just notice the huge difference it has made as a benefit to this country. When we look around, the difference is astounding????

I mean, well, ah, something, right? There has to be something that happened as a result in order to support the dire warnings, emphasis and priority given to it, right? It wasn't just a ploy and a way to scapegoat vulnerable people, was it? That's all? All the money and effort was for something good, right?

Sheesh! What a waste, for nothing. Well, it has inflicted a lot of human suffering in many ways and you could write a few paragraphs about the cold, cruel, heartless treatment. There will be other negative impacts from this, too.

This has been a travesty. A huge, political, dictatorial, Fascist move and to no real benefit.

Now, if you wanted real problems to be addressed that could make a huge, sweeping difference across the country in a short time, well, I could name many of them right off the top of my head, and I bet the rest of you could to.

With that in mind, the deflections do serve to throw us way off course. Meanwhile, the host of real issues fester and grow and we enter a time of great decay. What's that awful smell?

[ancianita]

4. This is a pumped up statistic to benefit MF45. The numbers don't square with reality,

just re-defining what "deport" means.

...this big bump in deportations was a bit of a dodge. For the first time, ICE and CBP began counting migrants whose attempts to cross the borders had failed as being "formally removed," which resulted in an impressive spike in formal removals.

ICE's priorities have shifted under President Trump. Rather than search for the "worst of the worst" -- as the administration claims to be doing -- border agencies are again engaged in numbers games. ICE will now go after anyone, reviving the practice of workplace raids to detain and remove immigrants who are gainfully employed -- something the "worst of the worst" rarely are.

The real story is data collection for surveillance.

...the government doesn't have the money or manpower to amass all of this itself. But contracts with private companies are somehow exempted from privacy regulations that prevent government agencies from collecting this data for themselves. Nothing restricts this data-gathering on the private side and all the government needs to do to work around its own restrictions is outsource the collection and pay only for access.

ICE seems to be a bit spoiled and it shows in its work. It no longer feels the need to make the nation more secure by ejecting hardened criminals with lengthy rap sheets. Instead, it's using this embarassment of data riches to eject anyone it stumbles across while surfing its multi-laned informational highway.

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