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Thread: Illegal Border Crossings Fall to Zero

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Illegal border crossings fall to zero in pandemic
by Anna Giaritelli | April 04, 2020

(Washington Examiner) - The number of foreigners arrested for illegally entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, and along the coasts have dropped to almost nothing in the past week as the U.S. became the world leader in confirmed cases, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Only 79 people were encountered Sunday by Border Patrol agents nationwide after they had attempted to enter the country between ports of entry. If that rate continued over the course of a month, it would make for fewer than 2,500 apprehensions, a drop in the bucket compared to the 30,000 arrests that agents made just on the southern border in February and 132,000 at the peak of the border crisis last May.

Border arrests reflect the number of people attempting to cross.

“It’s like next to nothing. For almost a week, their apprehensions have been under 150,” said a high-ranking border official who was not authorized to speak. “This is what happened on 9/11 — on steroids. Mexico has locked down a lot of their country … and then they [migrants] think if they come to the U.S., they’re going to catch the virus.”

On March 27, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed that of China and Italy, each of which had the most up until then. Of the more than 1 million known cases worldwide, more than 290,000 are in the U.S., far more than the number reported in the countries where most immigrants encountered at the southern border have fled, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine tracker. Mexico has more than 1,600 confirmed cases, and countries in the northern triangle of Central America have each reported dozens to more than 200 each. Nevertheless, because some people do not yet have symptoms and testing is not widespread, the actual count is likely much higher.

A top Border Patrol official in Texas said the number of illegal immigrants encountered in the past week was down "tremendously" to "single-digit [apprehensions] per shift" from hundreds per day earlier this year.

“It’s just more proof that it’s a trillion-dollar business model,” the first border official said, referring to how transnational criminal organizations facilitate human smuggling. “It’s all a business, and it’s going down just like any other business model right now.”


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