Another month, zero releases at the border

 Here are the numbers, facts "requested" - and questioned by Lying Lewis. Read them and shut your lying mouth Lewis. --   President Trump’s border crackdown has delivered another month without illegal alien releases at the U.S.-Mexico border, extending a streak that now stands at 13 straight months, according to Customs and Border Protection figures. -- The milestone marks a clean break from the Biden-era catch-and-release system, when federal officials routinely allowed massive numbers of illegal aliens into the country while they pursued asylum claims. Under Trump, CBP says that number remained at zero again in May.  -- The latest figures show Border Patrol apprehended 9,998 illegal aliens along the southwest border in May, a level so low it was beneath the single-day totals recorded during some of the worst points of the Biden border crisis. CBP said May apprehensions were 94 percent lower than the monthly average under Biden and 96 percent lower than the previous administration’s peak months. --- The daily average tells the same story. Border Patrol agents averaged 323 apprehensions per day along the southwest border in May, fewer than agents were processing in a single hour during the height of the crisis. In one five-day stretch in 2023, roughly 17,000 illegal aliens were arrested in just one border sector. -- “Thirteen straight months of ZERO releases at the border,” Mullin said. “Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, we are delivering the most secure border in American history.” -- “The days of catch and release are over,” Mullin added. “We are enforcing the nation’s laws and quickly sending illegal aliens back to their home countries, ensuring the safety and sovereignty of our nation.” -- The drop in crossings has also changed what agents are able to do at the border. Instead of being pulled into processing centers to handle mass releases, CBP says agents are focusing more heavily on drug interdiction and cartel activity. -- In May, CBP reported nationwide seizures of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and marijuana were up 32 percent from May 2024. Fentanyl seizures climbed 72 percent from April. Marijuana seizures were also up 61 percent compared with the monthly average during fiscal year 2024, while overall illicit narcotics seizures were 56 percent higher than the same period last fiscal year. --- https://mxmnews.com/article/83207e28-3d0d-4b12-b8e4-a766e3bff519?another-month-zero-releases-at-the-border

But are resources being supported to facilitate applications for legal entry by law abiding applicants? 

I think we all suspect the cartels etc. have unlimited funds to insure their continued activity.

Are all those border control efforts the equivalent of shoveling sand against the tide with a seed fork?  

Candy

  Whatever "shoveling" being done against the current said "tide" is a vast improvement compared to the restricted efforts the border patrol was allowed to do by the Biden/Harris/Mayorkas traitors against the 4 year tsunami that flodded America for 4 years.

I get that.  Let me clarify my question.  Say, how many bureaucrats, attorneys, clerks, hands does an application from a potential law abiding useful applicant have to pass through before a law-abiding, potential good and useful immigrant has the opportunity to enter the U.S. legally?  How long is the backlog of those applicants?

I guess it really isn't the same thing; they aren't mutually exclusive; one doesn't cross out the other.  

Candy

  One would have to contact immigration offices to possibly have your questions answered. 

I guess so.

I can answer that from my regional perspective. I live in Oregon, and every year, tens of thousands of lawful, legal, legitimate, approved by David Miller FEELTHY IMMERGENTS arrive to work the various harvests. They start in southern Ofregon in the spring and move north, culminating in the apple harvests in Washington in midsummer. There's temporary housing available all along the route, and then they go home in the fall. That cycle has been going on for decades.

The process works well for everyone, because fruit harvests in particular are swift and intense, and there's never going to be enough local labor; many of the rural areas are sparsely populated. Migrant workers apply for permits at the border in March and April and travel north in time for the pear and berry harvests near Medford.

EXCEPT--the Department of Hunting Down and Killing Brown People has made the process much, much more rigorous and much, much slower. They don't let anybody cross quickly and easily, even if they've come up here ten years running with no issues. And while they're waiting to be processed, they have to linger in migrant camps south of the border--always for weeks, often, for months. Basically, no one ever is just waved on through after an identity check. Every single migrant worker is scrutinized as if he was a terrorist suspect.

Those who can afford it hire local attorneys to speed up the process; they work pro bono or for very low fees. But that pipeline is very narrow. Most migrants just sit and wait.

Meanwhile, up here, the fruit falls to the ground and rots. Last year, with all the ICE raids, Trump's armed invasions, and a general atmosphere of fear, the migrant labor force was, in some regions, down by 50%. And it was particularly bad in the earlier-in-the-year southern Oregon harvests. Migrants who arrived at the border even in early March were detained for too long to be able to participate. They were able to get to Washington in time, but thousands just gave up. We lost 25% of our crops to spoilage. In the Pacific Northwest overall, the harvest was down 20%, with fruit prices going up by a reciprocal amount. 

The time it takes a migrant worker to be vetted, approved, etc. and allowed to cross is several weeks at best, and several months at worst. They have to have the resources to sit it out in the Mexican border camps for that long. Many simply don't. They're not able to afford food or medical care, because they haven't earned much money since the previous year's harvest in the US.

In the meantime, the number of staff to process temporary worker visas was REDUCED by 20%, as a result of Elon and Big Balls' DOGE staffing cuts. Only a few of those let go have reapplied to get their jobs back. Every stage of the process is understaffed.

But the real, the primary reason for the backlog is that the Trump administration doesn't WANT those people to be approved to enter the US. MAGA propaganda is that they're all thieves, murderers, and rapists...remember? So if it was up to us in the PNW, we'd say, "Come on up, we need you." But the Trump administration is saying, "You're filthy scum and we're going to be very, very, very careful about which of you we let in."

I asked Miller to prove his MAGA propaganda claim that there are now NO illegal border crossings, which is of course ridiculous, and he finally came up with some fantasy numbers about crossings at border checkpoints--all of which are legal. His "source" was Mxm News--hilarious!

Of course, apprehensions are no indication, because there are always far more entrants NOT apprehended. I mean...DUH! It's a MAGA fantasy that the border is so rigorously patrolled and surveilled under Dear Leader Trump that no one gets across illegally. The reality is that the border isn't "secure," and it can't be without the expenditure of trillions of taxpayer dollars and about fifty times the manpower currently in place.

  To be truthful, there is no "source" - even from God, who you would accept. You live in your world of delusion and have no concept of reality. 

You don't supply a source to support your claim of zero illegal border crossings (or sixty trillion a day, or whatever your number is, under the Biden administration), because you know there is none.

You could try to simply explain to us how Noble Dear Leader Trump is monitoring and patrolling the entire border 24/7 and KNOWS there are now NO illegal border crossings, as you claim.

Or, you could weasel, hem and haw, and insult me to try to cover up the sad fact that your claim is bullshit.

Which will it be??