Trump Interior Dept reverses Obama policy: Cooperates in border enforcement, will surge for caravans - Liberty Unyielding
There has been almost no media coverage of this development. However, the Washington Examiner carried a brief article by John Siciliano on the topic on Friday, 9 November. The article contained an eye-opening nugget:
[A] new Interior report show[ed] the department's law enforcement arm recently increased arrests of illegal immigrants by almost 4,000 percent.
[A] new Interior report show[ed] the department's law enforcement arm recently increased arrests of illegal immigrants by almost 4,000 percent.
There's an additional note of some interest. In 2017, a GAO report on a project funded in 2006 to repair and update border fencing disclosed numerous instances of the border fences being cut or otherwise breached between 2010 and 2015. An especially notable area where this occurred was immediately adjacent to the location of the ISIS camp in Mexico, just across from the New Mexico town of Sunland. This was the spot where ISIS and other jihadis could most readily cross into the U.S. and leverage the poorly policed federal lands to make their way northward through southeast New Mexico.
