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Looking forward to seeing how they spin this to blame Biden for something or other.
"The availability of cleaning personnel in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California has fallen to an all time low by the relentless assault of failed president Biden on our rights and liberty!" - Republicans, probably
So we’re seeing a drop in illegal border crossings, but the reason a few clowns are giving for dropping Biden from the ballots are illegal border crossings.
Is that accurate?
Reporting from Christmas Eve 2023.
Edit to add September news characterizing monthly and year comparison.
Adding: based on what I'm seeing, I think this downtick is new. Either way, I doubt the politicians are going to let that slow their roll on removing Biden. I expect their attempts to fail, but that whole ISL idea has adherents still.
I'd rather not live in interesting times, but here we are.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said a financial shortfall that had led the immigration agency to suspend deportations and other operations was resolved. He did not offer details.
How much were they short? If fixing a financial shortfall can produce newsworthy levels of improvement, maybe the US should help out with those particular financial shortfalls?
We're throwing billions of dollars into Ukraine and Israel that only very loosely and indirectly affect the typical taxpayer, the amount of money Mexico is likely to be talking about would almost definitely have a wildly higher amount of tangible benefit.
The flights in Mexico should be going the opposite direction... Instead of flying immigrants they find to their south border, they should be enforcing their own border and flying the asylum seekers from the southern boder to US ports of entry.
It's weird to me how much political support US legislators have for European countries compared to how little there is for our next door neighbor...
Looks like their entire national debt is around 870 billion USD. Maybe a bit higher since that was September. That's about what we spend on the military per year in discretionary funding.
I was only talking about the specific amount of funding the "budget shortfall" amounted to... Essentially, they funded whatever that amount was, and got these results.
Might be worth a look at setting up an annual grant to fund whatever they've done on a long term basis...
I couldn't find a "budget shortfall" number. I was agreeing. Apparently we could balance their entire budget in one year. That probably means that this particular line item is only tens to hundreds of millions of dollars per year at worst.
This proposal would be a rounding error for Congress.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics
Why is nobody looking at actual border control stats?
382,847 encounters YTD, the last 7 days we have had 382k crossings. Does that not concern anyone?
FY2024YTD is from October 1, 2023 to now, so that doesn't mean 7 days, it's more like 3 months.
EDIT: Added YTD because I derped.
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