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Despite the Secretary’s rosy border security portrait, a fact she neglected to disclose is Border Patrol’s apprehension numbers rose 9 percent in 2012. While the PEW Research Center has reported illegal immigration has slowed, coinciding with the sluggish U.S. economy, another figure most reports fail to highlight is Border Patrol only apprehends 60 percent of illegal aliens crossing into America, allowing 40 percent to escape detection.
Yet the “palpable” or obvious numbers with which Napolitano wants to quibble came from a Government Accountability Report (GAO). The report also illustrated that the Obama administration has failed to evaluate Border Patrol’s security measures over the past two years, effectively, rendering any recordable metric data to determine if the border is secure unreliable.
While Secretary Napolitano meets with the law enforcement agencies with a vested interest in the “secure” border report, people “on the ground” report a different perspective.
While I would certainly like to know how they determine their 60% apprehension rate, apparently they realize a large percent are safely reaching our shores. Unless they usually notice 4 escaping while they're detaining 6, I have no idea the basis for their 60/40 ratio. Regardless, clearly our borders are not secure, and Janet Napolitano is simply following the pro-amnesty "secure borders" script.
...While I would certainly like to know how they determine their 60% apprehension rate, apparently they realize a large percent are safely reaching our shores. Unless they usually notice 4 escaping while they're detaining 6, I have no idea the basis for their 60/40 ratio. Regardless, clearly our borders are not secure, and Janet Napolitano is simply following the pro-amnesty "secure borders" script.
Kimberly Dvorak does not source her 60% apprehension figure, and it is apparently did not originate from Pew or the GAO. I've found data based on migrant surveys showing higher success rates (lower apprehensions), but legitimate survey and poll data are not believed on this forum. The slides present some good information otherwise, so I'll provide it anyway:
Kimberly Dvorak does not source her 60% apprehension figure, and it is apparently did not originate from Pew or the GAO. I've found data based on migrant surveys showing higher success rates (lower apprehensions), but legitimate survey and poll data are not believed on this forum. The slides present some good information otherwise, so I'll provide it anyway:
Do you have proof the source is not GAO? If so, please share. However, I am still waiting for someone to offer a cogent explanation for their "undetected" numbers. Again, how can they use "apprehensions" to extrapolate the number or percent of illegal border crossers they failed to catch? That would be similar to an exterminator telling a customer he caught 6 mice, which indicates 4 escaped.
Do you have proof the source is not GAO? If so, please share. However, I am still waiting for someone to offer a cogent explanation for their "undetected" numbers. Again, how can they use "apprehensions" to extrapolate the number or percent of illegal border crossers they failed to catch? That would be similar to an exterminator telling a customer he caught 6 mice, which indicates 4 escaped.
You'll be waiting a lifetime for the true answers. Don't expect that from this administation, they are not about telling the truth, but manufacturing lies.
Janet, Joe, Obama, the whole lot of them, are not about the truth, they are however about twisting that truth, to suite their agendas.
Do you have proof the source is not GAO? If so, please share. However, I am still waiting for someone to offer a cogent explanation for their "undetected" numbers. Again, how can they use "apprehensions" to extrapolate the number or percent of illegal border crossers they failed to catch? That would be similar to an exterminator telling a customer he caught 6 mice, which indicates 4 escaped.
Again, Kimberly Dvorak does not source that particular information. The burden of proof is on her. However, she hasn't been anything comparable to legitimate journalism ("The Examiner", where anyone, can report anything, strikes again) before:
"Los Zetas drug cartel seizes 2 U.S. ranches in Texas" - by Kimberly Dvorak, "Examiner", 24 July 2010
Why wasn't more heard about this story (other than from bikini-model Jeff Schwilk, and Dan Amato of "Digger's Realm")? Because it was totally false. But the article is still up at "Examiner".
An exterminator makes a physical survey of the residence, and in his experience, sees evidence of approximately ten mice. After he catches six mice, a second survey identifies that there would be about four mice remaining...
Census data performs the same comparison to a total population, and the segment within that population that are not in data such as legal resident numbers...
Over the last 25 years, the apprehension rate has improved, this according to BP agents, from 1 out of 7, or even 1, out of 10, declining, with the dramatic increase in agents manning the border, to what is now thought to be somewhere around 1, out of 3. The 60% apprehension rate is almost certainly based on "the ones they know about (detect)." Of course they don't detect all of the illegals crossing.
A Government Accountability Office report earlier this month detailed some of the Border Patrol’s internal calculations about how many illegal crossers it misses, and the report said about 40 percent of would-be illegal immigrants get away. That rate has held consistent over time. Arrest numbers signal 9 percent jump in illegal immigration in 2012 - Washington Times
UNITED STATES BORDER (Source DHS/CBP) FY -- Apprehends - BP Agents -.Apprehension Rate 1987--1,158,030-----3,181--------1 out of 7 1988----969,214-----3,766 1989----891,147-----3,783 1990--1,103,353-----3,715 1991--1,132,033-----3,635 1992--1,199,560-----4,026 1993--1,263,490-----3,965 1994--1,031,668-----4,217 1995--1,324,202-----4,786 1996--1,549,876-----5,863 1997--1,412,953-----6,817 1998--1,555,776-----7,890 1999--1,579,010-----8,259 2000--1,676,438-----9,212--------- 1 out of 6 2001--1,266,214-----9,821............................. Budget $1.15 billion 2002----955,310----10,045............................. Budget $1.42 billion 2003----931,557----10,717............................. Budget $1.52 billion 2004--1,160,395----10,819............................. Budget $1.41 billion 2005--1,189,075----11,264............................. Budget $1.52 billion 2006--1,089,902----12,349............................. Budget $2.12 billion 2007----876,704----14,923.--------- 1 out of 5... Budget $2.28 billion 2008----723,825----17,499............................. Budget $2.25 billion 2009----556,041----20,119............................. Budget $2.66 billion 2010----463,382----20,558---------- 1 out of 4... Budget $2.96 billion 2011----340,252 ---21,444.............................. Budget $3.55 billion 2012----364,768 ---21,394.............................. Budget $3.53 billion
You'll be waiting a lifetime for the true answers. Don't expect that from this administation, they are not about telling the truth, but manufacturing lies.
Janet, Joe, Obama, the whole lot of them, are not about the truth, they are however about twisting that truth, to suite their agendas.
And an agenda they have!
And the data was already trending that way during the Bush II presidency...
How are administration members "twisting the truth" years before they come to that position?...
Again, Kimberly Dvorak does not source that particular information. The burden of proof is on her. However, she hasn't been anything comparable to legitimate journalism ("The Examiner", where anyone, can report anything, strikes again) before:
"Los Zetas drug cartel seizes 2 U.S. ranches in Texas" - by Kimberly Dvorak, "Examiner", 24 July 2010
Why wasn't more heard about this story (other than from bikini-model Jeff Schwilk, and Dan Amato of "Digger's Realm")? Because it was totally false. But the article is still up at "Examiner".
An exterminator makes a physical survey of the residence, and in his experience, sees evidence of approximately ten mice. After he catches six mice, a second survey identifies that there would be about four mice remaining...
Census data performs the same comparison to a total population, and the segment within that population that are not in data such as legal resident numbers...
I see you aren't serious.
Also, we aren't talking about "remaining" illegals (mice). We're talking about the alleged 40% that actually got away undetected. BIG difference.
When you provide proof that GAO is not the source, I'll stand corrected.
...A Government Accountability Office report earlier this month detailed some of the Border Patrol’s internal calculations about how many illegal crossers it misses, and the report said about 40 percent of would-be illegal immigrants get away. That rate has held consistent over time. Arrest numbers signal 9 percent jump in illegal immigration in 2012 - Washington Times...
But then the Washington Times reporter following that up by sourcing an unreliable kook like Glenn Spencer? (and even linking to what his website is named, but not the underlying GAO report):
Quote:
But Glenn Spencer, head of American Border Patrol, a private citizens group that tracks border crossings, said according to their own estimates, the Border Patrol only catches about 30 percent of illegal crossers.
While I would certainly like to know how they determine their 60% apprehension rate, apparently they realize a large percent are safely reaching our shores. Unless they usually notice 4 escaping while they're detaining 6, I have no idea the basis for their 60/40 ratio. Regardless, clearly our borders are not secure, and Janet Napolitano is simply following the pro-amnesty "secure borders" script.
Napolitano has been eating too much neopolitan ice cream, spiked with something.
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