@PNWest
Lets take a look at an example shall we?
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Trump: "Every day, Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country."
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Trump warns of 'crisis of the heart' in immigration address
This is overstated. Available Customs and Border Protection data shows a total of 396,579 people were apprehended by the US Border Patrol for fiscal year 2018 at the southwest border, which would mean an average of
1,087 each day --
hardly the "thousands" that Trump purports. The numbers differ each month. The highest number of apprehensions was in September, with a daily average of nearly 1,400.
-- Priscilla Alvarez
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This is kind of quibbling isn't it? Say Border Patrol captures half of those that get across? That means border patrol faced 2,000 that day, right? How many more on that day are at the border deciding whether or not to cross. They see a patrol and decide to try tomorrow instead. Say that is 500 people (maybe more or maybe less), right? That is 2,500 people that Border Patrol is dealing with. Maybe "encountering" isn't the word? Does that really take away from the essential facts at hand? Really?
The rest I could have critiqued in the same way and probably more successfully. There counterpoints are really rather kind of trivial don't you think? I mean 396,579 people apprehended (and let into country)? How many more got through? Last I heard Border Patrol said they probably apprehended half of those crossing. Some of those crossing and not apprehended are probably not caught because they do it often and those are likely the drug mules.
This border shit is for real. You might not "agree" with Trump but you should agree with him more than you do Pesolosi and Schumer or there is something missing in you. That would be an innate desire to protect your country and your countrymen, your family and your friends. Where do you stand
@PNWest?
