AZMEX I3 24 OCT 2018
Note: photo & chart at link.
Immigrant apprehensions up in Arizona this year
By RENATA CLÓ, Cronkite News
Oct 24, 2018 Updated 1 hr ago
https://www.pinalcentral.com/arizona_news/immigrant-apprehensions-up-in-arizona-this-year/article_79702177-6398-5078-b771-eab783d8a609.html
Immigrant Apprehensions
Customs and Border Protection agents and officers inspect vehicles at port of entry. CBP reported Tuesday that apprehensions of illegal immigrants
on the Southwest border were up sharply in fiscal 2018. (Photo by Josh Denmark/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Work Calexico)
WASHINGTON – The number of people apprehended at the Arizona border jumped more than 50 percent in fiscal 2018 from the year before,
according to numbers released by U.S Customs and Border Protection.
Increases in the Tucson and Yuma sectors outpaced the rate of growth along the rest of the Southwest border over the last year,
where the number of immigrants apprehended or turned away grew just over 25 percent from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018, the agency said.
Even though the total numbers rose from 415,517 to 521,090, that was still only the third-highest level of the past six years,
down from a peak of 569,237 people stopped at the border in 2014.
The report Tuesday comes as the Trump administration is sounding the alarm about a "caravan" of thousands of immigrants
who are heading north through Mexico, fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In recent days, President Donald Trump has criticized Mexico and other Central American governments for not making enough of an effort to stop the caravan,
threatening to cut off U.S. aid and, at one point, calling for the U.S. military to close the Southwest border.
While the report broke out the number of families and unaccompanied minors from Central America who were stopped over the past two years,
those groups still made up only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands who are stopped in a given year.
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Immigrant Apprehensions
In Arizona's two border sectors, the CBP reported apprehending 78,416 people last year, a sharp increase from the 51,504 migrants in 2017.
Yuma saw the sharpest percentage increase in the state, more than doubling from the previous year to reach 26,244 apprehensions in fiscal 2018.
Although Tucson only saw a 34 percent increase, 52,172 migrants it apprehended in fiscal 2018 was second-highest on the Southwest border,
trailing only the Rio Grande, Texas, sector.
Law enforcement officials on the front lines were reluctant to discuss policy, but said something needs to be done to protect their communities.
Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier said he is "very concerned about human trafficking, sex trafficking and that sort of thing."
That was echoed by Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who said criminal activity at the border regarding drug trafficking, human smuggling and the cartels worries him.
Neither sheriff had seen the CBP report with the latest numbers, but both said they want a "secure border" that is able to deter criminal activity.
To Napier, that can mean "physical barriers where they make sense, technology, human resources."
"It's a blend of all those things because the border is not one thing," Napier said.
"There are places where the board is very mountainous, it's very remote.
There's places where it's very urban, so it's not a one size fits all proposition," he said.
Dannels said that securing the border starts "with laws. It starts with policies, it starts with technology."
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Not to forget:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, (and the USA?) are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
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