{"id":13671,"date":"2016-10-18T04:39:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=13671"},"modified":"2016-10-18T04:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:39:25","slug":"border-security-slips-as-illegal-immigration-rises-significantly-over-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/border-security-slips-as-illegal-immigration-rises-significantly-over-past-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Border security slips as illegal immigration rises significantly over past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Border security slips as illegal immigration<\/strong><strong>\u00a0rises significantly over past year<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Border security slips as illegal immigration rises significantly over past year:-<\/strong> Nearly 409,000 illegal immigrants were nabbed at the border in <\/span>fiscal year<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> 2016 \u2014 up from about 331,000 a year earlier \u2014 and Homeland Security officials say the increased arrests also mean an increase in the number that <\/span>are<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> sneaking by them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Worse yet, the number of illegal immigrants traveling as families, fleeing rough conditions in Central America and enticed by the promise of lax enforcement in the United States, reached a record high of 77,674. Unaccompanied minors \u2014 those children traveling without their parents \u2014 also rose to nearly 60,000, though that was still shy of the record set in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cUnaccompanied children and families have presented new challenges in our immigration system,\u201d Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement announcing the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Obama administration made significant progress in securing the border in 2015, as the number of unaccompanied minors, <\/span>families<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> and overall illegal immigration dropped significantly. Total apprehensions fell to their lowest point since the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But things turned around for the worse over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some analysts cite relaxed enforcement in the United States as a cause, saying cartels and would-be migrants have learned to game <\/span>the more<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> relaxed system under President Obama. Claims of asylum have spiked, earning illegal immigrants a chance to remain in the United States while they fight their cases, and oftentimes disappear into the shadows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/oct\/17\/illegal-immigration-surged-23-percent-last-year\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/border-security-slips-as-illegal-immigration-rises-significantly-over-past-year.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border security slips as illegal immigration\u00a0rises significantly over past year Border security slips as illegal immigration rises significantly over past year:- Nearly 409,000 illegal immigrants were nabbed at the border in fiscal year 2016 \u2014 up from about 331,000 a year earlier \u2014 and Homeland Security officials say the increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[8416],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-border-security-slips-as-illegal-immigration-rises-significantly-over-past-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}