U.S. Illegal Immigration Plunges on Trump Crackdown
BREITBART NEWS
6 Apr 2017
Washington (AFP) – Illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border has plunged in the past two months as President Donald Trump’s crackdown takes hold, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday.
Apprehensions of people trying to sneak into the United States, seen as an indicator of the total flow of undocumented immigrants, dropped to 16,600 in March, down 30 percent from February and 64 percent from a year ago.
Kelly told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security that there was even a sharper fall in the number of families and unaccompanied children crossing the border.
“We’ve seen an absolutely amazing drop in the number of migrants coming out of Central America,” he said.
“In particular we have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of families, the number of children.”
The decline comes after a surge in the last three months of 2016 that appeared to be a reaction to the looming crackdown Trump promised in his presidential campaign.
Trump has pledged to expel the estimated 11-12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, the largest portion of them from Mexico.
Many have been in the country for decades, raising families, building businesses and buying homes.
The White House said the fall in the number of people sneaking into the country was the result of Trump’s policies.
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