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The most important statistics for understanding illegal immigration are how many are being deported, how many are already here and how many are coming into the country. This post lays out the numbers in a graphical and easy-to-understand format that can be read and understood in a couple of minutes. New data for 2018 will be posted when in becomes available in the next few weeks.

REMOVALS FROM THE INTERIOR

This graph shows ICE interior removals for fiscal years 2008-2017, from Bush’s final year and all of the Obama years though Trump’s first year in office. Interior removals are those removals due to arrests in the interior by ICE agents.

Interior removals dropped by 60-70% as Obama implemented the Secure Communities policy of focussing mainly on the deportation of criminals. This policy of prioritizing the removal of the more serious criminals started in 2010 and was completed in 2013. The huge drop in deportations was because it takes much more money and effort to deport criminals than it does to round up all illegal aliens that can be more easily found in the streets, workplaces and schools and deport all of them as the law requires as was done before Obama, not just the more serious criminals Congress, by design, only provides enough money to deport criminals and a couple other very narrow classes of illegal aliens.

The numbers for the graph come from these ICE pages.

FY 2015 ICE Immigration Removals

Fiscal Year 2017 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report

Trump continued the Secure Communities policy via his executive order issued on January 25, 2017, just days after taking office.

Trump Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States

“Secure Communities” is another government euphemism. By design, it makes the majority of illegal aliens secure from the threat of internment and deportation as would be required by the law. It is a bipartisan project. Bush conceived and tested the concept, Obama implemented it fully and Trump continues it. It makes American workers and taxpayers less secure.

This wiki provides references for further information about Secure Communities.

Secure Communities – Wikipedia

Trump’s new executive order continuing Secure Communities policy, ensured that deportations of illegal aliens would remain near the extremely low levels of Obama’s final years in office. The number of interior deportations in Trump’s first (partial) year were near historic lows of recent decades set by Obama.

The government estimate of the number of illegal aliens in the country is 12 million. Many think it could be 20-30 million or even higher. In any case, if less than 100 thousand are being deported every year, this is almost nothing. Many more are coming in every year than that, including criminals. Almost certainly, even more serious criminals are entering the US illegally than are being deported every year. At this rate, extremely few illegal aliens who make it past the border area need fear being deported.

BORDER APPREHENSIONS

The Border Patrol also turns over a large number of persons to ICE for deportation. The two numbers should not be combined, as Obama did to mislead the public, because the apprehensions by the Border Patrol are generally persons who were caught in the process of crossing the border. The two numbers are counter-indicators.

The higher ICE interior removals are, the more illegals are being removed from the country. Higher border apprehensions, however, mean that more illegals are coming into the country, because it is believed that the Border Patrol only catches a fraction of those attempting to cross.

This graph shows Border Patrol Apprehension by fiscal year. The apprehensions in Trump’s first year went down slightly compared to the Obama years, due mainly to his tough rhetoric during the campaign. Since that time illegal border crossing reportedly has gone up to pre-Trump levels, if not higher.

Fewer illegals were crossing the border, just because Trump declared he was going to strictly enforce the law. In the beginning some were actually self-deporting, based solely on Trump’s campaign rhetoric. The data in the graph comes from this link.

US Border Patrol Total Apprehensions for Fiscal Years 1925-2017

The number of illegal border crossers has reportedly gone back up in the past year, though, since would be crossers and their supporters realized that the law is actually not being enforced as threatened during the campaign.

The number of border apprehensions has been in a steep, 20-25 year downtrend, mainly because the current border fence was started that many years ago. Currently, There are about 650 miles of fence on the border. It shows that continued improvements in the current, very imperfect, border barrier would most likely continue to cause those numbers to decline in a significant way.

See this historical video,

produced by the command of the San Diego Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol.

SUMMARY

To be effective, enforcement of the immigration law should be comprehensive in the interior and at the border at the same time.

The major issue and centerpiece of Trump’s campaign was enforcement of the immigration law. In the first year that Trump was in office there was no significant change from the Obama years in the enforcement of the law against illegal immigration.

The “Secure Communities” policy that caused a dramatic drop in the number of deportations during the Obama years was continued by Trump with similar results of an extremely low deportation level during Trump’s first year, while illegal border crossing remained relatively high.

Coming into the country legally and overstaying the permitted time of stay is also a way of coming into the country. There has been no obvious progress in preventing this avenue of illegal residency, either.

“Zero Tolerance” was a great idea and is proven to work, but it was not properly prepared beforehand, not coordinated and implemented well and has been rolled back due to the public outcry. Hopefully, the Trump administration can make changes in the plan and re-implement it. It would go a long way towards making up for there not being a proper physical barrier at the border.

The numbers for 2018 are expected in the next few weeks. Trump’s policies have not changed, so no huge improvement in immigration enforcement is expected in the second year.

This post is not intended to discourage, insult or blame Trump supporters, at all, but just to present the simple truth, so that they can continue to MAGA and create pressure for positive change in policies for immigration law enforcement. The change has to ultimately be reflected in the numbers, not just in the rhetoric.

This video shows how a border barrier caused dramatic change in San Diego during the 1990’s. The Border was at one time in absolute chaos. It’s still not totally secure, because the old barrier is far from perfect, but about 90% better. The reduction in crime and smuggling has improved the neighborhoods on both sides of the border. This video was produced by the local Border Patrol sector command in San Diego. It was shown to President Trump when he visited the border-wall prototypes.

This guide to crossing the border illegally was found in the pedestrian zone of Mexicali. The translation in English is below the image of each page. The Spanish text is at the end.

Illegal crossers are also encouraged to commit other crimes in the U.S. See the “After the crossing” section on page 9.

It is stated in the article that such guides have been published since 1928. Since such guides do not appear to be readily available in English on the Internet, it was thought that a post would be of interest to some English speakers.

The article was posted on the side of a building in the historic center of Mexicali and is about 6-8 feet tall. It is on the opposite side of the plaza from “Our Lady of Guadalupe” Cathedral, just a stone’s throw away from the border fence and a couple blocks east of the border crossing. In the text, it is recommended that illegal crossers go to the local church for help. The Catholic Church is a very major supporter of illegal immigration into the U.S.

It appears that the jury may have been rigged in favor of the defendant in this cop-beating case. Even one determined person can hang a jury or sway a divided jury towards a not-guilty verdict and at least one blatant, openly-biased person was allowed on this jury.

A leftist, Chicano political operative and activist was allowed to be seated on the jury. This person works for a certain progressive Democratic senator as a field agent. He said that he also works frequently with a far-left activist in San Diego, named “Mark Lane”, who is a witness in the trial. The activist juror is the former president of a Chicano (Democratic) political group.

UPDATE: Frederick Jefferson was convicted, in spite of the issues with the jury. See the Fox5 link below:

Man found guilty of punching cop, resisting arrest

This trial of Frederick Jefferson who punched a San Diego policeman several times in the face, seriously injuring him, started on July 25, 2018 in downtown San Diego. The subject crimes took place at an event in Chicano Park, called a “Patriot Picnic”, which had very intense political undertones.

The chances of this leftist, Chicano political operative, closely associated with a witness, being on the jury by random chance, is statistically very slim. He admitted this political association with Mark Lane during voir dire and the prosecuting attorney, Michael Reilly, did not remove him from the jury or even question him in any detail about it.

The juries tend to already be left-leaning in downtown San Diego. The jury questioning appeared designed to enhance this effect with little or no opposition from the deputy district attorney. Reilly appeared to just be going through the motions. The addition of this leftist political activist to the jury seems designed to top off the already left-leaning jury to help ensure a desired outcome.

Judge Leo Valentine, Jr. ordered me not to blog about the jurors before jury selection started. For that reason, I am not giving out the name of the juror or any very specific details, which might be used to identify him. I am not trying to be a martyr.

After I learned of this relationship between a juror and a political activist, expected to be a witness, I passed the judge a private note telling him that I did not think there could be a fair trial with this obviously biased and politically-connected person on the jury. His response was just to ban me from the trial.

Mark Lane works with a group of attorneys and provides support for persons who are illegally residing in our country. The juror in question said that he works with Lane from time to time when there is a case that may benefit from the help of the Senator. He apparently has a case now, on which he and Mark Lane are working together.

The two Patriot Picnics in Chicano Park were not intended to be protests or demonstrations, but still were very politically controversial, because Chicano Park is, dedicated to anti-American political events of the extreme Left.

Both “Patriot Picnics” were intended to be tests of our constitutional rights of whether we could simply access this public park without racial, ethnic or political discrimination. We wanted to demonstrate, whether we could use the park to exercise our freedom of assembly, freedom of speech (among ourselves in private) and test our right to simply display the American flag in this park, which many Chicano militants hold to be their “liberated land”. Our test failed on all counts!

Mark Lane was a counter protester and major inciter of the rabid crowd who assembled to stop both “Patriot Picnics”. They called us “Nazis” and “white supremacists” without any evidence, in order to marginalize us and whip up a mob against us to block us. There were no overt (or even known covert) Nazis, white supremacists or fascists at these events.

For Patriot Picnic I, last September 3rd, we intended to visit this public park in peace, in order to have a private viewing and discussion of the anti-American, pro-communist and Chicano ultra nationalist murals at the park. Word leaked out by subterfuge 2-3 days before and 500 raging park supporters meet us there to deny us access.

Lane appears in this video cursing, slandering and threatening the five citizens, especially me (Roger) at that first Patriot Picnic. He is the person at the beginning with a black beard. (Part of the video is from Lane’s own posted video.) Note that some were extremely upset with the police for protecting us from the angry lynch mob that had been incited against us.

In contrast to the first, intended private one, Patriot Picnic II was an intentionally publicized effort by another group (Bordertown Patriots) of about 60 patriots to walk into the park flying the American flag, because use of the flag is restricted in the Park by the “unofficial” Chicano Park Steering Committee and their thuggish allied groups. The flags of Aztlan and La Raza are required to always be superior to the American flag in Chicano Park, because it is their “conquered” land. An estimated 700 people showed up again to block our free access to the park, though it was reported by a couple of friends on that side that many of these people were not sure exactly why they were there.

Aztlan is the American Southwest, held to be the national homeland of the Chicanos, ultimately to be united with the Mexican fatherland. Chicano Park is similar to a Chicano-nationalist cult site. It is claimed to be a “sacred place” as the first part of Aztlan to be occupied and “liberated”. For this reason those, who control the Park, are very offended by the American flag, the symbol of American sovereignty. Its use is restricted to a remote corner of the park on a lower flagpole, maintained by group of local Hispanic veterans. The veterans had to fight hard to be allowed to install a modest veterans memorial and flagpole there in a remote corner of the Park. Until Patriot Picnic II loomed, the “Steering Committee” only allowed the American flag to be displayed at the memorial on the three patriotic holidays.

Friedrich Jefferson was obviously coming to the park to join the mob against us, incited by the slander spread by Mark Lane and others that a group of real Nazis would be gathered there. The information that he was on the other political side has been suppressed by our Leftist-dominated authorities and media, in order to not to offend or assign any blame to their political allies.

BodyCam video of Frederick Jefferson attacking policeman

They pretend that Fred Jefferson was some random, apolitical passerby, who was just out for a relaxing stroll and happened to wander into the area of conflict. In truth, he was itching for a fight and he seriously injured a policeman, who was trying to protect us from the mob. Fred Jefferson was positioning himself right in the middle of the street, where we were expected to make our exit from the free speech zone, to which the police had confined us for our own safety. The injured cop probably took punches that were intended for the patriot picnickers.

The nearby supporters of the Park were encouraging and defending Jefferson as he punched the police officer and the police struggled to subdue and arrest him. They had no doubt which side he was on. This is confirmed by many posts on Chicano and Leftist websites. One of the Chicano organizers, Jorge Alexis del Castillo, initially started a crowdfunding site for Jefferson’s defense, which has since disappeared.

The Judge and prosecutor must know that the events surrounding the crime were extremely political. If they do not, they have been very derelict in their professional duty. They allowed a political activist with a strong political bias and an political association with a witness to be on the jury. According to my understanding, this is very wrong. My attorney also finds it incomprehensible that this openly political activist could be allowed to be on the jury, while openly admitting an association with a witness.

The Chicano and leftist counter protesters are, generally speaking, not exactly friends of law enforcement to begin with, but they especially hated them for protecting us from mob violence at these two events. As Mark Lane threatens in the video above, “You will not always be protected (by the police)…”. This second Patriot Picnic event in February attracted some on the Left, like Jefferson, who had an extreme hatred of the police, and he was ready for a fight with the police.

The men of one of the four founders of the militant Chicano movement, Reies Tijerina, wounded two law enforcement officers in the late 1960’s. One of the officers was suspiciously murdered just before he could testify against Tijerina. Another founder, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, publically encouraged the killing of cops as a “revolutionary act”. These two founders are memorialized in Chicano Park. Some of the funeral ashes of Corky Gonzales, who mandated cop killing, have been (illegally) scattered in the Park around the statue of their Mexican revolutionary saint, Emiliano Zapata. In this sense, Chicano Park is a unholy, anti-cop, “sacred” shrine as well as being an anti-American shrine.

There should be a fair trial for the victim, too, without any juror, who is unduly biased in favor of the defendant and biased against the police. With the current jury this is just not the case.

NEWS REPORTS

Bodycam video shows man punch San Diego police officer

Watch: Bodycam shows officer getting punched outside Chicano Park protest