Speech #1140103386

The message this administration is sending to the world is that if you can get here. you can stay here. According to official statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. the number of socalled family units who have been apprehended at the southern border has already exceeded the number who were apprehended in all of fiscal year 2015. Approximately. 12 percent more socalled family units were apprehended through May than were apprehended through all of last year. Total apprehensions of all aliens appear to be on the rise. which is an indice of increased illegality into this country. Last month. the head of the National Border Patrol Council testified before the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. which I chair. that for every alien apprehended at the border by the U.S. Border Patrol. we could assume at least one evaded detection. He said they are catching half of the people who enter. and they apprehended more than 300.000 illegally into the country last year. He further testifiedthis is important. critically important and shows the extreme nature of the Obama administrations policies with regard to immigrationthat of the half who are apprehended. at least 80 percent of those are released into the country and not deported. They are told: OK. Come back to court.