The number of illegal alien families flooding across the border for 2016 has surpassed those who illegally crossed in 2015… and it’s only mid-June!
As if we don’t have enough to worry about with a very weak economy, racial tension, global tension, terrorism and so on the surge at the border is only compounding our problems. This is no thanks to our do nothing leadership in Washington, DC. This report just goes to show the border is not secure and those in power have put our national security at great risk.
One has to wonder how many ISIS fighters are hiding within the countless families and groups coming over? They made it clear they would do that. Maybe DC will care when it affects them personally, until then the sentiment from them toward us is “to hell with you, now re-elect us”!
Illegal families surge across border; 2016 already worse than 2015
The Washington Times
The number of illegal immigrant families jumping the border so far this fiscal year has already topped all of 2015, according to Homeland Security statistics released Friday that show the administration’s border problems continue to grow.
Some 6,788 people traveling as families were caught on the southwest border in May — a leap of more than 20 percent over April, and putting the total for the first eight months of the fiscal year at nearly 45,000.
That’s already well above the 2015 yearlong total of fewer than 40,000, though it’s short of the record pace set in 2014, when a massive surge exposed massive holes in the U.S. immigration system.
Federal and local authorities have struggled to explain the latest surge in families, but a government lawyer gave one explanation to a federal judge earlier this month, saying that the Obama administration’s own lax enforcement policies, set in part by the courts, have enticed ever more people to make the harrowing journey.
The Justice Department’s immigration-law expert even told the judge that Illegal immigrants are abducting children on their trip north, hoping to pose as families to take advantage of the lax policies.
Overall immigration — including families, children traveling alone, and the more traditional adult illegal immigration — is up dramatically compared to 2015, powered by a major spike over the winter, and steady increases in the spring. [read more]