1,500 Per Day: Border Patrol Opens Temp Facility to Accommodate Border Surge

[Locutus]

Immigration officials at the U.S. Mexico border have been forced to open a new temporary facility in Texas to accommodate a recent surge of illegal alien border crossers, a wave of nearly 1,500 people per day that once again threaten to overwhelm border patrol and create a housing crisis for thousands of alien families and children.

In October alone, Customs and Border Protection apprehended 46,197 illegal aliens crossing into the United States unlawfully via the Southwest U.S. border, including 13,124 members of family units and another 6,754 unaccompanied children. In fact, the number of family unit members apprehended in the first month of FY2017 is already 118 percent higher than those who were caught in October of last year.

Averaged out, border patrol caught about 1,490 illegal aliens per day in October.

Immigration officials said they’re currently housing about 41,000 illegal aliens in detention centers that typically accommodate between 31,000 and 34,000 people.

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1,500 Per Day: Border Patrol Opens Temp Facility to Accommodate Border Surge | MRCTV

 

[petros]

Why would they be surging before the crackdown? Illegals aren't an issue. Right?

 

[Locutus]

SNL ratings are down.

 

[petros]

Must be. US has nothing else to offer but is it worth risking your life for SNL?

 

[Locutus]

it's been a pedestrian 8 years.

things are lookin' up tho'.

 

[petros]

Indeed. Things only got more mundane under Obama.

 

[EagleSmack]

They'll just have to go back and reapply.

Or maybe Trudeau can volunteer Canada as a new promised land!

Your libs would pizz their pants.

 

[petros]

Piss them too.

 

[tay]

Last year America removed 369,000 undocumented migrants, an increase of nine times compared with 20 years ago (see chart 1). This takes the total number of the deported to almost 2m in Barack Obama’s presidency.

The government has long had the authority to expel undocumented migrants, but deporting them all is impractical (there are reckoned to be 11.7m). It has therefore chosen to concentrate on getting rid of criminals.

As the system for tracking people down has become more powerful, there has been a huge increase in the number of plaintiffs appearing before immigration courts. Some 1.1m people are somewhere on the docket: that is nearly 5,000 immigration cases per judge.

Some of these places are run by private companies for ICE, like the one in Pearsall, a small Texas town decorated with churches, car-parts shops and a high-school football field. The facility can house up to 1,800 men at any one time, sleeping on iron bunk-beds in dormitories of up to 100.

Housing them all cost $2 billion in 2012, or nearly $5,000 per person deported.

Even with all this funding, the beds the government is mandated to provide exceed the number of places available in detention facilities, so the excess are housed in ordinary prisons. In other words, they are locked up with ordinary felons.

The great expulsion which America is carrying out is removing some people who have committed violent crimes. But it is also expelling economic migrants, some of whom have been working in America for decades.

The great expulsion | The Economist


That's because the Obama administration is either flirting with or has crossed the 2 million deportation mark. It took George W. Bush, whose administration faced greater political pressure to clamp down on immigration, nearly two full terms to reach that number; Obama hit it in slightly more than one. Here's a brief explainer on Obama's deportation milestone:

The Obama Administration's 2 Million Deportations, Explained | Mother Jones

 

[petros]

Last year America removed 369,000 undocumented migrants, an increase of nine times compared with 20 years ago (see chart 1). This takes the total number of the deported to almost 2m in Barack Obama’s presidency.

Are more jumping to border than 20 years ago?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Are more jumping to border than 20 years ago?

Nope. Numbers (which of course are necessarily estimates) are down.