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‘Dude, you were president’: Obama flings Trump’s line of attack right back at him
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If I say it, I get buried in down votes. Yes, we have a problem and it involves real people with real lives. Acting like the issue is 100% GOP bullshit isn't helping to either fix the issue or help these people.
For example, look at the downward trend for 2024. Well, that's good news isn't it? That's 100,000 people the Border Patrol encountered trying to get in, in a single month. We have to talk about how we are to employ, feed and shelter that many people. And they are constantly flowing in.
I have no idea how best to proceed, the logistics are boggling, but pretending nothing is happening is not a strategy.
That 100,000 number is the number of border encounters, which counts people caught crossing illegally and people trying legally but being denied entry. While we don't have any way of knowing for sure, the apprehension rate was estimated at 78% in 2017-2020 and has quite possibly gone up a little since then. The 78% of people caught crossing is 100,000, the number of people actually crossing successfully is a lot lower.
And that’s the number of crossing encounters; likely the same people attempted to cross many times, and 78% of the time they were caught.
Oftentimes, people aren’t crossing the border to find a new life in the US; they’re crossing to visit friends, do some shopping/smuggling, or find some itinerant work, after which they cross the other direction.