from Statista.com
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum for sending National Guard troops on assignment to the border with Mexico to help the regular law enforcement agencies crack down on drugs trafficking, gang activities and illegal immigration.
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According to Trump, “the security of the United States is imperiled by a drastic surge of illegal activity on the southern border.” And he anticipates a “rapid rise in illegal crossings as we head into the spring and summer months,” as stated in the memorandum published by CNN. Trump also assesses that “the situation at the border has now reached a point of crisis.”
While a long view of so-called “illegal alien apprehensions” recorded by the U.S. Border Patrol clearly indicates that illegal crossings of the border from Mexico into the United States had initially risen since the 1960s, the numbers have ebbed since peaking in 2000 at 1.6 million. While last year approximately 304,000 people were apprehended, the first half of this fiscal year has seen 174, 000 people taken into custody since October. The figures are for fiscal years that run from the beginning of October to the end of September of each year.
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