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How many people are crossing the border illegally? How many is too many, before we build the wall/fence/barrier?
There’s no official measure of how many people succeed in illegally crossing the border, but authorities use the number of apprehensions to gauge changes in illegal immigration. Apprehensions on the Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 396,579 in 2018.
Those numbers, which come from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are for fiscal years and date back to 1960.
That’s a 76 percent decline in the number of apprehensions between the peak in 2000 and 2018.
We can also look at how the figures have changed over the past several years.
Under the Obama administration, the yearly apprehensions on the Southwest border declined by 35 percent from calendar year 2008, the year before President Obama took office, through the end of 2016. In President Donald Trump’s first full year in office, the apprehensions declined by 43 percent, from calendar year 2016 to 2017.
On a monthly basis, the apprehensions decreased significantly during the first six months of Trump’s tenure and then began to rise. The number was actually higher in November (the most recent month for which the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published figures) than it was when Trump was sworn in.
Illegal Immigration Statistics - FactCheck.org
There’s no official measure of how many people succeed in illegally crossing the border, but authorities use the number of apprehensions to gauge changes in illegal immigration. Apprehensions on the Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 396,579 in 2018.
Those numbers, which come from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, are for fiscal years and date back to 1960.
That’s a 76 percent decline in the number of apprehensions between the peak in 2000 and 2018.
We can also look at how the figures have changed over the past several years.
Under the Obama administration, the yearly apprehensions on the Southwest border declined by 35 percent from calendar year 2008, the year before President Obama took office, through the end of 2016. In President Donald Trump’s first full year in office, the apprehensions declined by 43 percent, from calendar year 2016 to 2017.
On a monthly basis, the apprehensions decreased significantly during the first six months of Trump’s tenure and then began to rise. The number was actually higher in November (the most recent month for which the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published figures) than it was when Trump was sworn in.
Illegal Immigration Statistics - FactCheck.org
