In case you missed it, Homeland Security just released the Southwest Border illegal immigration statistics for fiscal year 2018 which ended 30 September, 2018.
This is not a pretty picture:
– Total Southwest Border Patrol Apprehensions……396,579. That’s 1,086 a day.
-Of the 396,579, family units accounted for 107,212. A family unit is a child under the age of 18 apprehended along with a parent or legal guardian.
– Of the 396,579, 50,036 were unaccompanied children; 137 per day.
The FY 2018 total (396,579) is an increase of 93,563 over the FY 2017 total of 303,016.
My assumption is that the majority of these people were intent on looking for work in the US.
There is a simple solution to this problem that goes on unabated year after year.
If you have not yet read it, go back to this blog home page and read A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT IMMIGRATION REFORM.
This program will work. It should be a nonpartisan issue. The illegal immigrants pay for it. It is a one-time program and thereafter no one can cross the border illegally and have any hope of securing a job in the US.
Most of the individuals in the 7000-person caravan currently headed for the US, who have been interviewed, indicate they are coming to find a job.
If the immigration reform program in this blog would have been implemented, the current caravan would not exist. Nor would there be a follow-on caravan that is reportedly being formed in Honduras.
Under my proposed Immigration reform, there are four reasons why all the current illegals working in the US will register for the program. 1) They live in fear every day of being caught and deported; that goes away. 2) They currently have no path to US citizenship; citizenship becomes a potential reality. 3) Currently they have no way to legally go home to visit family and then return to their job in the US; they will be able to do so legally. 4) If they do not register, they will not be able to continue working in the US.
This program should stop the flow of people coming for jobs and allow the border patrol to concentrate on stopping criminals, terrorists, drug dealers and the sex slave trade. It may even negate, or at lease reduce, the need for a border wall.
I have spent the past three years trying to get someone in Washington to read the IMMIGRATION REFORM PLAN. Copies have gone to the White House, my Representative and Senators with not even the courtesy of a response.
My request is that if you have not read the immigration reform plan in my blog, please do so. If you agree it is a viable way forward, please make an attempt to contact someone in Washington who can get the ball rolling. I am available to go anywhere, meet with anyone who can shine some light on this program.
By the way, recently a couple professors released their findings concerning how many illegals there are currently in the US. After an exhaustive study, they came to three conclusions. 1) The current estimate of 10-12 million is certainly low. 2) It is possible the number may be as high as 22 million. 3) There are valid reasons to believe the number is at least 16 million.
50,000 unaccompanied children were sent across the border and apprehended last fiscal year. That statistic alone makes doing something positive about immigration policy a moral imperative.
Marv Covault