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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1122995)3/5/2019 9:21:36 PM
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Border Report: Since October 260,000 Illegal Aliens Apprehended Crossing Border, 66,000 in February Alone…
Posted on March 5, 2019by sundance
~ Compare and Contrast ~To adequately absorb the scale being outlined here: it must be remembered in July 2014 President Obama and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson declared a “border crisis” and requested $3.7 billion in budget appropriations for a total of 60,000 illegal border crossings during the migrant travel season. That’s 60,000 TOTAL in 2014.



According to NPR, citing current DHS Border Patrol stats, in the period of October 2018 through last week there have been more than 260,000 border apprehensions.

( Via NPR) The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 66,000 migrants at the Southern border in February, the highest total for a single month in almost a decade.

The majority of those arrested were migrant families or children traveling alone or without a parent, according to figures released Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Many of the migrants say they’re fleeing criminal gangs and poverty in Central America to seek asylum in the United States.

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1122995)3/5/2019 10:17:34 PM
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>> That's what made America great. It was working pretty well, until they let your family in.

Spoken like a real Democrat. The kind of Democrat that supported slavery. And then went on to form the KKK and lynched black men and raped black women.

My family came to the US in 1865. And now you reveal America was great until 1865 when the south was great and the slaves were plentiful.

You Democrats are just so proud of you slave based history.