The statement that was given that there were 1.2 million stopped at the southern border last year. of course we know that is a rounded number. The number in a little more precise term is stuck in my head: 1.159.000 illegals. and I say collared at the southern border in the last year. And of those. there were only 1.640 that were adjudicated for deportation. The balance of them. in summary terms. were released on their promise to return to their home country. Many of those who were other than Mexicans. the 155.000. were simply released into this country without an expectation of going back to their home country. In that haystack of humanity. the Border Patrol has testified before our immigration subcommittee that they believe they stop onethird. maybe onefourth. of those illegal crossers. So we know that that 1.2 million multiplied times three or four gets you in the neighborhood of how many actually came across and how many came in here and successfully completed their crossing and stayed. That numbers approaches.
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