{"id":162549,"date":"2024-10-29T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=162549"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:21:34","slug":"illegal-immigration-they-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162549","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigration? They lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89598 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Confiscating-all-guns-deporting-all-illegals-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Confiscating-all-guns-deporting-all-illegals-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Confiscating-all-guns-deporting-all-illegals-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Confiscating-all-guns-deporting-all-illegals-333x333.png 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Confiscating-all-guns-deporting-all-illegals.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article in the Telegraph about illegal immigration, and the lies we are told about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Data released monthly by US Customs and Border Protection shows some 7.15 million people tried to enter the country illegally since\u00a0Joe Biden and Ms Harris had their first full month in office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a familiar number, no? We get it in our faces pretty much every day, and it makes us angry.\u00a0 Want to get angrier yet?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost nine million people have headed across the border since Ms Harris became vice-president and was tasked with tackling the \u201croot causes\u201d of illegal immigration from Central America more than three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accused the White House of attempting to \u201claunder\u201d migration figures and deliberately misrepresent its record on border security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The explanation? &#8220;Gotaways&#8221;, the not only illegal but successful folks who not only cross the border but don&#8217;t get tracked or caught. Since we know they are there, we should add a percentage or estimate to the known border-jumpers to account for them, shouldn&#8217;t we&#8230; but we don&#8217;t. &#8220;Since we don&#8217;t actually <em>know<\/em>, we can&#8217;t really estimate&#8221; is a pretty lame excuse, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, when immigration data is collated every month it does not include those who evaded detection by Border Patrol, known as \u201cgotaways\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A Freedom of Information request submitted by The Telegraph shows that the agency calculates an extra 1.8 million migrants crossed the US\u2019s southern, northern and coastal borders without being apprehended between February 2021 and September 2024.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"grid-col grid-col-12 tpl-article__layout tpl-article__layout--content \">\n<div class=\" \" data-js=\"article-body\" data-test=\"tpl-article-body-recipe\">\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"component article-body-text \" data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Looks pretty close to a 25% undercount, doesn&#8217;t it? 25 FREAKIN&#8217; PERCENT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"grid-col grid-col-12 tpl-article__layout tpl-article__layout--content \">\n<div class=\" \" data-js=\"article-body\" data-test=\"tpl-article-body-recipe\">\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"component article-body-text \" data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Simon Hankinson, an immigration research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said: \u201cI think it is a deliberate obfuscation. They have essentially laundered illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"grid-col grid-col-12 tpl-article__layout tpl-article__layout--content \">\n<div class=\" \" data-js=\"article-body\" data-test=\"tpl-article-body-recipe\">\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"component article-body-text \" data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Lies, damned lies, and statistics &#8211; or, in this case, basically lie about the source data. This shouldn&#8217;t be new &#8211; this administration has a history of doing this. They bragged abo0ut how the FBI stats showed that crime had\u00a0 dropped over the last four years, and omitted that only about 2\/3 of the former reporting jurisdictions were actually still reporting. Harris trumpeted that crime had dropped by what, 1.6%?, according to the FBI &#8211; and failed to mention that the FBI, in a historic first, revised their crime counts without even mentioning it, and the actual corrected numbers proved to be almost 6% HIGHER than before. Why spoil a good campaign<del datetime=\"2024-10-28T15:55:02+00:00\"> li<\/del>e line with the truth?<\/p>\n<p>However, lest ye think Harris\/Biden are devils incarnate and that Trump was a poor picked-on paragon of virtue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Previous administrations have also released figures on migrant encounters rather than gotaways, including under Donald Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We wouldn&#8217;t have a problem at DHS, would we? Or is it gilding the facts to make it all look better?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The proportion of immigrants apprehended under both Mr Biden and Trump, was around eight in 10 \u2013 more than double the number under George W Bush in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hankinson said: \u201cGotaways, almost by definition, are going to be more likely to have criminal records and to be undesirable than people who show up and surrender to the border force.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/news\/2024\/10\/28\/true-scale-migrant-crossings-under-kamala-harris-revealed\/?WT.mc_id=e_DM442523&amp;WT.tsrc=email&amp;etype=Edi_USD_New_B&amp;utmsource=email&amp;utm_medium=Edi_USD_New_B20241028&amp;utm_campaign=DM442523\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it is too easy to suggest the simplest cure &#8211; if someone is found to be here illegally, throw them out. Don&#8217;t want your family potentially separated? Don&#8217;t come. Don&#8217;t want to wind up on a bare-bones flight to your country&#8217;s main airport? Stay out of ours. Welcome the legal crossers with open arms, help them out&#8230;but deport the illegal crossers within the shortest possible time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in the Telegraph about illegal immigration, and the lies we are told about it. &hellip; <a title=\"Illegal immigration? They lie\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162549\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illegal immigration? 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