U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Southwest frontier with Mexico caught fewer illegal aliens in November than in previous months, but the monthly flow is still overwhelming and brought the total caught in fiscal 2020 to nearly 90,000.
More than 40,000 jumped the border in November, a figure substantially lower than the lowest monthly total in 2019, a year that brought a Camp-of-the-Saints-style invasion that strained the resources of the agency responsible for the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Last year’s total broached a million. This year’s could top a half-million if the flow continues at the same pace as October and November.
The Figures
Border agents collared 42,649 illegals, or about 1,421 each of November’s 30 days. The hourly rate is about 59, almost the same as October’s 60 per hour.
Agents caught 33,510 illegals who jumped the border between ports of entry — i.e., they were sneaking into the country.
Among them were:
• Unaccompanied Children — 3,321
• Family Units — 9,000
• Single Adults — 21,189
Another 9,139 were stopped at ports of entry and declared inadmissible:
• Unaccompanied Alien Children — 366
• Family Units — 4,154
• Single Adults — 4,566
• Accompanied Minor Child — 53
As with October, November’s figures show a major decline in families who show up hat in hand. As The New American reported last month, border-jumping families outnumbered single adults in every month last year but October.
Now, the number of single adults border agents catch is double the number of so-called families.
Total for Fiscal 2020, Other Data
Despite the seeming drop in the number of “migrants,” which included thousands of Africans, the total thus far this year is not encouraging as border control goes.
As of November 30, agents had collared 87,826 illegals: 68,925 jumped the border between ports of entry, while 18,901 were declared inadmissible.
Of the nearly 70,000, CBP counted these:
• Unaccompanied Children — 6,165
• Family Units — 18,726
• Single Adults — 44,034
The latter group of nearly 20,000 included:
• Unaccompanied Alien Children — 753
• Family Units — 8,145
• Single Adults — 9,849
• Accompanied Minor Child — 154
November’s total is 5.6-percent less than October’s 45,177, which CBP adjusted from its initial figure, 45,250.
Yet it continued the downward trend that began in May, when agents apprehended a mind-boggling 144,116. That frightening deluge of Central America’s penniless multitudes subsided to 104,311 June, and then declined steadily and more dramatically from there.
By September 30, the close of the fiscal year, the number had dropped 63.5 percent to 52,546, and and then another 14 percent by October 31.
Who’s Coming Across?
As with October’s report, what the raw data don’t show is who crosses the border and what type of “migrant” agents encounter. Contrary to the myth retailed by the open-borders crowd, they aren’t just the poor, huddled masses of Latin Americans yearning to breathe free.
On Saturday, border agents in California’s El Centro Border Sector collared yet another sex fiend a little east of Calexico’s Downtown Port of Entry, CBP reported.
A records check revealed the miscreant Mexican to be one Efren Prado-Rodriguez, 38, who was convicted in 2006 in Oregon of second-degree sex abuse. He was deported in 2006.
This fiscal year, CBP reported, El Centro agents have arrested and deported 10 illegal-alien sex criminals.
On Monday near Dulzura, California, agents caught a previously deported 38-year-old Mexican who was convicted in Nebraska in 2004 of sexually assaulting a minor, CBP reported.
On Thursday, seven miles from the border, agents caught five illegals. One of them was a 49-year-old Mexican child rapist, also previously deported, convicted in 2003 in Washington state.
And already this fiscal year, which began October 1, agents in Texas’ Del Rio Border Sector have collared 300 Africans from 11 countries on the Dark Continent.
Agents apprehend 1,211 all of last year. If that rate of African apprehensions continues, agents will have arrested about 1,800 by year’s end.
As The New American reported on Monday, citing the Los Angeles Times, the number of African illegals in Mexico doubled from 2,700 in calendar 2018 to 5,800 this year.
That last figure is more than 10 times the number of African illegals in Mexico in 2007, the Times reported.
Recent arrivals from Africa are a particular concern because of those from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which faces the “world’s second largest Ebola epidemic on record,” the World Health Organization has reported.
As of yesterday, and since August 1 when WHO declared the outbreak, 2,206 people had died of the highly contagious disease, which could be spreading among the illegals in Mexico who want a trip to the border and asylum in the United States.
Photo: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
