Posted: 12/10/2015 12:05:16 AM EDT
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No....not ISIS but another surge at the Southern Border.
Emergency measures imposed as border surge surprises, overwhelms immigration officials The surge of illegal immigrant children continued unabated in November, pushing the Obama administration to announce emergency measures to try to handle a problem it thought it had solved earlier this year. Two months into the new fiscal year, the number of unaccompanied minors jumping the border and getting caught is at an all-time high. So far, the U.S. Border Patrol has picked up over 10,500 — more than twice the number at the same point last year. The number of families trying to cross also has surged, with more than 12,500 people caught — a 173 percent increase over last year. The family surge underscored the changing nature of the flow of migrants, with parents increasingly risking the journey with young children in tow, hoping to take advantage of what they believe are lenient deportation policies under President Obama. -snip- Numbers have climbed steadily this year, however, and November’s 5,615 illegal immigrant children caught at the border is the highest monthly total since June 2014, when some 10,508 were apprehended. Among families, the 6,476 people apprehended in November — mostly women with young children — was the most since July 2014, when 7,436 were caught. The vast majority of unaccompanied children and families come from three Central American countries: El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. More at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/8/border-children-surge-overwhelms-immigration-offic/ |
