{"id":52796,"date":"2016-10-19T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52796"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:42:18","slug":"nearly-1-million-illegal-aliens-crossed-border-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52796","title":{"rendered":"NEARLY 1 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS CROSSED BORDER IN 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sessions blows whistle on Obama for telling ‘half the story’ on immigration<\/h2>\n

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Leo Hohmann
\nWND.com<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released data Monday showing illegal immigration spiked 23 percent in the fiscal year leading up to the November election, but that was only part of the story.<\/p>\n

The DHS report<\/a> said 408,870 illegal aliens were apprehended at the southern border in fiscal 2016, up 23 percent from 2015.<\/p>\n

That in itself was shocking, since Democrats have always maintained that deportations have increased under Obama and the hullabaloo over \u201cillegals\u201d was a fiction meant to stir up the Republican\u00a0base.<\/p>\n

But Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate subcommittee on immigration and the national interest, issued a statement<\/a> late Tuesday that focused on another number.<\/p>\n

Sessions, an adviser to Donald Trump, cited testimony before his subcommittee earlier this year in which Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said that for every illegal alien who is apprehended, another evades arrest.\u201cThis is only half the story. The 408,870 does not include those illegal aliens who evaded detection and successfully entered the United States,\u201d Sessions said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis statistic reportedly has been confirmed by DHS, but the Obama administration refuses to release that information,\u201d Sessions said. \u201cUsing that rate as a baseline, that means approximately 408,870 illegal aliens evaded detection, for a grand total of roughly 817,740 illegal entries into the United States last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly 1 million illegal crossings in 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there you have it. For the first time ever, a true picture of the total number of illegal immigrants coming across the border \u2013 more than 800,000 in one year. And even that doesn\u2019t include the number of immigrants who overstay their visas after legally entering the country.<\/p>\n

Another report<\/a> put out by the Center for Immigration Studies Wednesday shows asylum applications from illegal border-crossers up more than 900 percent since 2009.<\/p>\n

It is notable that Monday\u2019s announcement did not indicate how many of the 408,807 apprehended aliens were actually removed from the United States, Sessions said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough those numbers will not be known for some time, the simple fact is that tens, if not hundreds, of thousands, of those apprehended are still in the country,\u201d Sessions said. \u201cIndeed, Brandon Judd also testified at that same hearing that approximately 80 percent of the aliens that the Border Patrol actually apprehends are released and not immediately deported. Data revealed earlier this year indicated that the Obama Administration allowed 97 percent of the unaccompanied illegal alien juveniles it previously apprehended to remain in the United States, instead of being deported.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the percentage of members of so-called \u201cfamily units\u201d who have been allowed to evade deportation from the United States is similar, according to Sessions, who is advising Donald Trump on immigration issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe increase in new illegal arrivals is alarming, particularly the increase in family arrivals,\u201d said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank focusing on immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Obama administration\u2019s catch and release policies serve as a major motivation for people around the world to make their way to the U.S. border,\u201d Vaughan added. \u201cWhat these statistics do not show is the number who evaded the Border Patrol \u2013 which is estimated to be equal to the number who were caught \u2013 or the number that the Border Patrol has been told to let go, when they claim they are not new arrivals.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, many illegal settlers don\u2019t have to bother with the border anymore, as they can walk up to a legal port of entry, ask for asylum, and be allowed to enter, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, many communities around the country are paying the price for these lax policies as they have to pick up the tab for the schooling, health care and other social services that the new arrivals will be accessing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sessions says the consequences of these policies are rising crime rates and less-safe cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Obama Administration\u2019s open-border policies have made our country less secure than we were eight years ago, eviscerated any semblance of credibility in our immigration system, and have created an ever-growing financial burden on U.S. taxpayers,\u201d Sessions said. \u201cThe country cannot sustain this course. The Obama Administration and the special interests may not believe in secure borders, but the American people do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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