Sleep Tight America, Chuck Schumer Says the Borders Are Safer
Chuck Schumer said that the number of people captured between Oct. 1, 2008 and May 15 this year was down 27 percent from the same period the previous year.
Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer cited reports from the Customs and Border Protection officials saying that most of the decrease has been in the number of people taken into custody as they tried to illegally enter the U.S. along the border with Mexico.
The New York senator said the lower demand for labor in the U.S. and stepped-up border enforcement measures are behind the decrease.
“The border is far more secure than it’s ever been,” Schumer said.
The Obama administration has promised to increase border security even more on the southern border to crack down on border violence and work with Mexican authorities against drug cartels. Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are being deployed to the Southwest.
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I have to raise my hand on this on and call BS. I am pretty sure that this report is right up there with the reports that stated hundreds oops, no thousands of Mexican workers were going back across the border because of our poor economy and that 90% of the Mexican guns came from the US.
Note the phrase that Schumer uses, “take into custody”. If you tell the agents (ICE) that they cannot take people into custody and that you can no longer deport people found in raids……then sure the number drops. “The borders are far more secure than they have ever been”,certainly he not making that statement based the false data he used, is he? As a hack for his party, you don’t think he is trying to down play the illegal immigration problem so that amnesty will be pushed through, do you? Or perhaps he is still responding to all of the criticism the administration took for not closing the border from the swine flu outbreak. No matter his reason, it is political spin at its worst.
May 20th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
“Note the phrase that Schumer uses, “take into custody”. If you tell the agents (ICE) that they cannot take people into custody and that you can no longer deport people found in raids……then sure the number drops.”
No offense, but you are confusing ICE numbers and CBP Border Patrols numbers.
And yes, the border is more secure now then it ever has been. Is it anywhere near where it needs to be? No, but it is more secure then ever before!
May 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Thanks or your response and your critique. in response to your statement, No offense, but you are confusing ICE numbers and CBP Border Patrols numbers. I was neither offeneded nor confused. ICE or Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been told to stop conducting raids that up to recently have been effective in reducing the number of ILLEGALS here in the US. They can no longer take them in to custody.
“And yes, the border is more secure now then it ever has been” What are you basing that on? Hopefully, you are smart enough to be fooled by the Biden’s numbers
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 am
The numbers that Biden was talking about were BP numbers (i.e. the number of apprehensions of illegals entering the US. Your statement about ICE being told to stand down has zero effect on the BP numbers. Just a simple fact.
As for the border being more secure, we have nearly doubled the number of BP agents along the border and increased the use of several technologies that make them more efficient. The same can be said for the Ports of Entry. As an officer that has been working along the southern border for 11 years enforcing our immigration laws, I can unequivocally state, that the border is more secure today then ever before!