Trump’s zero-tolerance policy fails to deter border crossings, per new data

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So...trumpo comes up wrong again. Sadly, he'll use the fact that an increase has happened to ramp up his hideous policies, including the Asinine Wall....

https://thinkprogress.org/border-crossings-rise-despite-trumps-zero-tolerance-policy-b9a33c2ca8f2/

Over the past year, border crossings increased by 57 percent.

The number of migrant families detained by U.S. officials along the southern border has barely changed from June to July, indicating that the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy has failed to deter migrants from entering the United States.
Recent data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Wednesday shows that over the past two months, there was a decrease of nearly 7 percent in people apprehended at the border. But July 2018 numbers reflect a 57 percent increase compared to July 2017. Apprehensions of families increased more than 142 percent over the past year, with more than 9,200 undocumented family members detained in July 2018. As The Washington Post noted, overall, more families with children have entered the United States in fiscal 2018 than at any time during Barack Obama’s presidency.
“People have no choice. They’re fleeing potential death to themselves, to their kids,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s National Immigrants’ Rights Project told MSNBC. “It’s not going to deter and it’s inhumane.”

 

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Which means border patrol is too lenient. And there is still too great a chance to get to stay once one gets in. This needs to change. Open borders are for suckers.