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@antipsychosoup6709 You are correct and one of the few that have actual facts, but still lacking in many so let the adult explain what you missed in your context so your head won't remain up your ars. The federal governments fiscal calendar year starts on October 1st. This means that for the year of 2017 started 10/1/2016-9/30/17, for both the budget and apprehension data. That is why Presidents can't take any responsibility for much of what happens in their first year and gives them time to create policy and a budget on the following 10/1.
This mean that Trump was still under the same policies that gave us a 17 year decline in southern border crossing that ended in 2017. Policies from Bush and Obama. Trumps first immigration policy change was in the summer of 2018. 2018 only saw a slight increase of 105,000 over the 415,000 of 2017 for a total of 520,00. By the end of the fiscal year of 2019, with Trumps policies in place it increased to 977,000, a 20 year high. Those numbers in 2020 normalized for winter months and declined due to covid. By October of 2020 those numbers were back to a 20 year monthly high they have increased and remained a 20 year high under those same failed policies under Trump, that also violated US immigration law. Biden is following immigration law, but Title 42, Remian in Mexico, and Trump destruction of polices that were working to fit in an agenda to stop legal immigration, is what caused this problem.
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@antipsychosoup6709 And don't forget to look at the demographics of who was being apprehended under Trump and under Biden for crossing the border. More single adults under Trump and more children under Biden.
To cross our border illegally for the first time is a misdemeanor that carries a civil offense US code 1325. That person or family group has to be processed and then deported. That way when immigrants try and cross again they fall under US code 1326, that carries stronger penalties as a deterrent.
Title 42 removes penalties under those laws and just deports immigrants. With no penalty system in place under title 42, this has caused more returns who do not face penalties that they would face under normal immigration law. It also means numbers accounted for are not accurate. Current rate of return crosses is above 40%
US code 1158 is our asylum law, that the Right wants to ignore and undermine. It allows an immigrant to cross our border legally at any point and request asylum. The Right has lied about it, ignored it, removed context and omitted it from their claims, and Trumps policies criminalized it in violation of immigration law. With his child separation policy.
Remain in Mexico forces legal asylum seekers who have used a port of entry and have passed a creditable fear interview to remain on the Mexican side of the border. US law says they are to remain in the US, US code 1158 section 1125. Due to restriction at check points it is easier to be granted asylum by crossing between check points. Especially under Trump's hard line policies.
Unaccompanied minors that are caught are automatically entered into our asylum process. They have to be transported out of CBP hands within 72 hours to family services, a sponsor, or family in country.
Single adults are still all placed in deportation proceeding under title 42. Title 42 is being used to ignore our Immigration laws and treaty obligations. They should be allowed to request asylum and go through the process to qualify.
Family units entry depends on the title 42 restrictions and asylum request and along with how they entered. They can be deported or put into our asylum process.
The Mexican government changing laws in areas that can't handle the influx of refuges due to Trumps remain in Mexico policy. Those who are not Mexican nationals, that we caught in one area now have to be transported to another area on the border to be deported.
Due to the increased number at the border we have to transport some to CBP at our northerner border for processing.
This why so many are being transported and it was the same under Trump.
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@petersinclair8620 In the days leading up to President Donald Trump's televised address to the nation Tuesday night to promote his southern border wall, administration officials justified the proposal by claiming that thousands of terrorists pour across that border.
Data and analysis from Trump's own administration drastically undercut that message, calling into question whether the situation along the U.S.-Mexican border is truly a "national emergency" as Trump said.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Friday that Customs and Border Protection officials caught nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists "that came across our southern border." She repeated that on talk shows throughout the weekend, and Vice President Mike Pence used the same data point during an appearance on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday.
But in the State Department's summary of global terrorism threats published in September, analysts concluded there was "no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups ... sent operatives via Mexico into the United States."
Monday, NBC News reported that the number of known or suspected terrorists caught along the southern border in the first half of 2018 was about 1 percent of the Trump administration's claim. According to Customs and Border Protection data provided to Congress, the agency encountered 41 people on the Terrorist Screening Database from Oct. 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, along the U.S.-Mexican border. Thirty-five of them were American citizens or lawful permanent residents, and only six were classified as non-U.S. persons.
Monday night, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway acknowledged in an appearance on Fox News that Sanders conflated two very different statistics while trying to make her argument. In fiscal year 2017, federal officials stopped 3,755 people on the terrorist watch list from traveling to or entering the USA, but that includes people traveling through airports, seaports and land ports. The majority of those tried to enter by air.
"That was an unfortunate misstatement," Conway said. "Everybody makes mistakes, all of us. The fact is, it's corrected here."
In a statement Monday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she did not provide an exact number of how many of those on the terrorist watch list were stopped at the southern border, saying it was “sensitive” and could not publicly be released. Homeland Security did not dispute the accuracy of the NBC News report that found 41 known or suspected terrorists were caught there.
As criticism of their terrorism statistics increased, administration officials started using another metric to warn of potential dangers crossing the border.
In 2018, agents encountered more than 3,000 "special interest aliens" at the southern border. That is a loose definition that does not indicate any kind of specific intelligence on that person, only that he or she has traveled to or come from 35 countries considered to be of "special interest" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because of their historic ties to terrorism.
Nielsen cited those "special interest" people Monday in a series of tweets warning, "The threat is real."
In a statement after those tweets, Nielsen made clear that being designated a "special interest alien" does not mean the person is a national security threat.
"This does not mean that all (special interest aliens) are 'terrorists,' but rather that the travel and behavior of such individuals indicates a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provides indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation," she wrote. "The term (special interest alien) does not indicate any specific derogatory information about the individual – and DHS has never indicated that the (special interest alien) designation means more than that."
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@petersinclair8620 In recent days, as the Biden administration faces a new surge of migrants along the southwest border, Republican lawmakers are renewing warnings that international terrorists are trying to slip into the country through Mexico. But U.S. officials and experts say such warnings don't accurately capture how unlikely it is that international terrorists could access the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The notion that the Southwest border is open to terrorists is ludicrous," said Alex Nowrasteh, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. "The government has shown no evidence that terrorists use the Southwest border to get into the United States."
Speaking before reporters and cameras during a visit to the border in Texas on Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., disclosed that border patrol agents had just told him that suspected terrorists were recently apprehended trying to enter the United States.
"You saw in their eyes, they're on the list ... the terrorist watch list," McCarthy said.
"They are now finding people from Yemen and Iran and Turkey, people on the terrorist watch list," he added.
Other Republicans offered similar warnings.
"Individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border," Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., said at the news conference with McCarthy and a dozen others.
Specifically, on Jan. 28, a Serbian national apprehended at the border in New Mexico was a positive match for someone on the U.S. government's Terrorist Screening Database, or TSDB, according to a source familiar with the matter. In addition, three others on the database -- all from Yemen -- were recently caught at the border, the source said.
But showing up on a terror watchlist doesn't mean someone is necessarily a terrorist, and it's exceedingly rare for someone encountered by a Border Patrol agent or a customs officer to be on that terrorist watchlist.
"Less than 0.0001 percent of total [Customs and Border Protection] inadmissible encounters and apprehensions involve persons who are watchlisted on the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)," a senior Homeland Security Investigations official told Congress in 2018.
"It's an alert, it doesn't mean you arrest that person on site and charge them," David Lapan, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump, said of the watchlist. "There are many different ways that people end up on the terror watchlist. Sometimes it's a mistaken identity."
Others end up on the watchlist simply because they are "a cousin or a friend or a house cleaner" to a known terrorist, one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, noted.
Furthermore, the U.S. government has established systems to prevent terrorists from entering the country -- as exhibited by the fact that four people on the government watchlist were successfully intercepted in recent months, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas suggested to lawmakers during a House hearing on Wednesday.
Terrorists trying to sneak into the United States is "not a new phenomenon," but "it is because of our multi-layered security apparatus [and] architecture that we have built since the commencement of the Department of Homeland Security that we are in fact able to identify and apprehend them," Mayorkas said. "We actually deny them entry based on our intelligence and based on our vetting procedures, which have only grown in sophistication over the years."
As for Nowrasteh, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, he studied the topic in a report on the risk of foreign-born terrorists in the U.S. between 1975 and 2017. In that time period, nine illegal immigrants of the more than 31 million people who entered the country illegally became terrorists – including three Macedonian brothers who entered the country as children and were raised in the United States.
"There are more people in the country illegally that overstay their visas than come across the southwest border," Lapan told ABC News, referencing the 9/11 hijackers, who all entered the United States on airplanes and overstayed their visas.
"It's not that there's zero chance of that happening, but we've just never seen evidence that it's a significant risk," he said.
In fact, "There has never been a terrorist attack in the United States by someone who illegally crossed the southern border," the U.S. official added.
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