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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Border arrests fall more than 40% after Biden's halt to asylum processing, Homeland Security says
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and REBECCA SANTANA TUCSON, Arizona©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Weak on border MAGAs should join with the Democrats in funding the border.
John
And without building a pointless wall or sending the military on a photo-op no less.
bass4funk
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-sees-huge-drop-border-crossings-greg-abbotts-fight-heats-1869904
No, border excursions have been reduced thanks to Abbott and the employment of him using the National Guards, misleading to say the least, now in California border crossings are up.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-05-16/migrants-from-around-the-world-have-made-this-stretch-of-california-the-top-place-to-enter-the-u-s-illegally
With 37,370 arrests last month, it was the busiest of the Border Patrol’s nine sectors along the southern border for the first time since the 1990s.
bass4funk
So why do we have fences? Why do we have locks? They don’t work? Castles and government buildings have walls and fences, why are they needed, if they don’t work then DC doesn’t need a fence as well. I mean, they are useless as you say.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Castles and government buildings aren't 2000 miles long. If you want the wall and technology to make it at all useful, you have to pay for it.
funkymofo
Government buildings need fences for when MAGAs lose elections.
plasticmonkey
Read the story more carefully:
Arrests for illegal border crossings have dropped more than 40% during the three weeks that asylum processing has been suspended
Both of your links are from more than three weeks ago. Misleading to say the least.
John
Golly, you should ask the mongols how effective a massive wall with no support structure in the middle of nowhere worked.
He didn’t build it. It didn’t work. The Mexicans sure as hell didn’t pay for it.
And yet his goober rubes eat it up.
bass4funk
That’s not the point. They have them for a reason throughout history.
It will once he’s back in office, don’t care how, I’ll send a couple of grand myself, whatever it takes.
Or when Biden loses
Me, I think you need to.
Interesting, for 4 years, nothing and now during an election year Biden has somehow miraculously found the power to bring the mess down he and Myorkas created.
No, nothing misleading
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/texas-establishes-permanent-presence-on-the-southern-border
Blacklabel
Yeah let’s claim success based on 3 weeks of misleading stats released the day before a debate.
for a policy it took 3.5 years to implement,
lincolnman
MAGA-meltdown...
All Biden has to do is cite these stats and read REPUB Senator Jim Lankford's assessment of the border security bill...
“The bill provides funding to build the wall, increase technology at the border, and add more detention beds, more agents, and more deportation flights. The border security bill ends the abuse of parole on our southwest border that has waived in over a million people. It dramatically changes our ambiguous asylum laws by conducting fast screenings at a higher standard of evidence, limited appeals, and fast deportation.
“New bars to asylum eligibility will stop the criminal cartels from exploiting our currently weak immigration laws. The bill also has new emergency authorities to shut down the border when the border is overrun, new hiring authorities to quickly increase officers, and new hearing authorities to quickly apply consequences for illegal crossings. It changes our border from catch and release to detain and deport.
https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-releases-border-security-package-with-huge-wins-for-securing-the-border/
Then point and finger at Trump and say "He killed it...because he wants to keep his illegal maids at MAL and Bedminster"...
wallace
The walls of private property are incomparable to a 2,000-mile-long southern border, which can never be fully sealed, and many undocumented individuals will always enter the country.
John
In light of this:
I especially like the fact that of the crap wall that Bannon did build (that didn’t collapse into the river) when he wasn’t defrauding the golmers dumb enough to donate (cough cough) it was notable for HAVING AN UNLOCKED GATE ALLOWING ACCES TO PUBLIC LAND.
plasticmonkey
Tell us, MAGA friends. Is this good news for the border situation or not? And do you think Biden made the right policy decision this time? Or is it a “disaster”?
bass4funk
No, but the American people do.
All the people have to do is see what Biden has done over the last 4 years.
Open border
Dismantle all of Trump’s border policies
10 million illegals allowed and encouraged to come inAnd 4 years after it’s too late and this administration now acts????? No one believes this administration especially when they send $64 billion to Ukraine and zilch for the border and not even allowing the CBP to do their jobs.
Biden killed the nation with his policies, he and Myorkas both.
bass4funk
Too late. Joe should have taken action 4 years ago and kept all of Trump border polices and remain in Mexico intact
Worse than a disaster
lincolnman
Hogwash...
Wrong....
Imprisoning children...
To work at MAL, Bedminster, and Trump Tower...
Need glasses? Your own Team Red conservative Jim Lankford spoke those words...
More far-right failure fantasy...try again...
plasticmonkey
Posting a story from February to disclaim something that’s happened in the past three weeks is pretty misleading. It doesn’t sway me, but it may any posters here who, like yourself, are homeschooled.
Bob Fosse
Who? Are you claiming it’s rigged? What a shocker.
Blacklabel
No, nothing is ever “rigged”. It’s not possible to do so. Our Justice system is fair and honest and non partisan and no one is above the law!
the left says so.
bass4funk
I’m sorry, but please focus for a moment. What does that have anything to do with the question I asked? We have walls everywhere, the average home has them, castles and government buildings have them, we have locks on doors, do they essentially work or not?
Oh, please, libs talk about J6 you guys go back to 2020 anyway….
Nothing misleading, spot on.
It’s not supposed to, but like most libs, you can’t and won’t answer the questions, typical. Lol
Sorry, I was not homeschooled, not sure what, where or why you’re even saying it.
Bob Fosse
So who ‘rigged’ the SC ruling?
You made the claim, back it up.
Blacklabel
who built cages for children at the border?
”only” 2400 per day is insufficient. It fails his own policy of less than 1700 by a huge percentage.
where is the success or achievement here?
like that time Joe saved us 17 cents on a 4th ot July barbecue. or 20 cents on gas one day.
Or when he achieved to reduce inflation from 9% but it was still double what it was when he arrived as resident.
success claims for Biden are not even a low bar it’s the ground.
2400 per day isn’t below 1700 per day (his own set failed goal)
plasticmonkey
My parents taught me "better late than never". I wasn't homeskooled though, so what do I know.
The MAGA party had a chance to pass the most comprehensive border legislation in decades, including tons of money for border security. And they punted because their Lord 'n' Savior told them it would make Biden look good. You guys don't want a solution, you want a problem.
I thought Abbott has gotten the border sealed tight with "the National Guards".
JJE
That still leaves 60% if one believes anything this administration has to say anymore. Why didn't he do it one day one?
plasticmonkey
Your retort is even weaker sauce than your original post.
plasticmonkey
I guess you forgot having claimed this. But with a biography chock full of made-up stuff, it must be hard to keep track.
bass4funk
Why do you opine then?
The Dems had so in 2010 and in 2020 and did absolutely nothing until Trump came in
Doesn’t matter When border agents are not allowed to enforce the law and not apprehend people, how many people are now dead because of Joe Biden? 3 women within the last year and we are just half way through it.
He has, 75% down.
plasticmonkey
Improvements are not improvements unless the problem is eradicated. Everyone knows that. Just like even though the crime rate is way down, crime still exists, and therefore it's an unprecedented crime wave.
MAGA logic.
My prediction is that Trump will be able to lower prices, solve the border and immigration issue, stop the war in Ukraine. All on day one. Just by thinking, tweeting, and waving his magic wand.
Biden is the weakest human being ever to inhabit the White House. Trump is hands down the buffest.
plasticmonkey
Wow. Biden Migrant Crime Wave.
plasticmonkey
Why are you shrieking about "worse than a disaster" then?
bass4funk
Because you don’t have a single comeback. Not one. Remember, video, dates don’t lie.
I never did. So I’m not sure what you are talking about.
I don’t make up stuff, now the liberals on the other hand….
I don’t need to. Lol
Biden could have not increased by eliminating Trump border policies, let’s start there first and foremost.
Yup!
No
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/2953562/bad-data-from-the-fbi-mislead-about-crime/
The border for sure. Everything else in time.
Plastic, for once I wholeheartedly agree with you and I will give you credit for once.
Blacklabel
he hasn’t even met his OWN target yet. Not even close. Like 40-50% more away from it.
and the left and the media already slobbering all over him, after just 3 weeks of misleading data.
Blacklabel
thats correct. Amazing isn’t it?