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President Donald Trump was catapulted into office on the pledge to crack down on illegal immigration, and authorities under his administration cast a wide net – one that snared 30 percent more people in fiscal 2017 than the same period the year before.
Through the first nine months of Trump's new presidency, the figure was even more pronounced, with arrests jumping 42 percent between Inauguration Day and the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, compared to the same period last year.
Year-end numbers from the Department of Homeland Security reflect the new enforcement regime that was enacted by Trump in his first weeks in office. It rescinded Obama administration guidelines that urged immigration authorities to focus on immigrants who were in the country illegally who also had felony convictions, as well as people who had recently arrived in the U.S. without authorization, and instead instructed officers to focus on people not only with convictions but pending charges, as well.
Few issues in America have been more contentious than immigration and what to do with the roughly 11 million people believed to be in the U.S. illegally. Here's a closer look at the numbers behind illegal immigration in the United States in 2017, as Trump nears the end of his first year in office.
Arrests along the Southwest border fell by nearly 24 percent in fiscal 2017
This figure is generally used as a benchmark for measuring illegal immigration overall at the Southwest border. Through the first four months of the Trump presidency, the number of people arrested dropped by 40 percent compared to the same period the year before, which means there were fewer illegal immigrants to arrest.
By the time Trump took office in January, apprehensions were on the decline from a high of 66,708 in October 2017 under then-President Barack Obama, but top administration officials say that Trump's tough-talking rhetoric helped reduce the level of illegal migration.
The number of arrests hit a monthly low of 15,766 in April, before resuming a steady month-over-month increase that reached 39,006 arrests in November – 38 percent fewer arrests than in November 2016 but several thousand more than in November 2014.
The recent rise over the summer seems to be driven by an increasing number of children and families arriving at the border. Most of the people arrested in 2017 came from countries other than Mexico, including more than 162,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The number of deportations fell 6 percent in fiscal 2017:
The pace of deportations has been hampered by backlogs in the courts and overcrowded detention facilities. But the decline in deportations is also due to the sharp drop in the number of people who flowed across the Southwest border this summer. Notably, the number of deportations that stemmed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests alone – not including people apprehended at ports or along the border by Customs and Border Protection or Border Patrol officers – rose 37 percent.
ICE earlier this year indicated that it was seeking to open as many as five new detention facilities to house all those it has taken into custody and to alleviate overcrowding.
Ninety-two percent of those arrested by ICE had a criminal conviction, a pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive or had re-entered the country after previously being removed by ICE.
Immigration advocates and outreach groups have sharply criticized the Trump administration's approach to immigration enforcement, which they say does far too little to distinguish dangerous criminals from those who migrated to the U.S. in search of better economic prospects or safe haven from violence. The 92 percent figure, for example, includes people charged with no crime other than crossing the border illegally. Officials have pushed back on those claims.
The number of people arrested "at-large" – in the broader community, as opposed to in a prison or jail – who had no criminal conviction more than doubled in fiscal 2017.
About 11 percent of those taken into custody by ICE had no known criminal charge or conviction. Another 15.5 percent had a pending criminal charge but no conviction.
Assaults against Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents jumped 44.8 percent.
While migration appears to be down, assaults against agents at ports and along the border leaped to 847 incidents in fiscal 2017. Incidents involving officers' use of firearms, though, fell to a record low of 17 incidents in fiscal 2017, down from 26 incidents the year before and a high of 55 in 2012.
President Donald Trump was catapulted into office on the pledge to crack down on illegal immigration, and authorities under his administration cast a wide net – one that snared 30 percent more people in fiscal 2017 than the same period the year before.
Through the first nine months of Trump's new presidency, the figure was even more pronounced, with arrests jumping 42 percent between Inauguration Day and the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, compared to the same period last year.
Year-end numbers from the Department of Homeland Security reflect the new enforcement regime that was enacted by Trump in his first weeks in office. It rescinded Obama administration guidelines that urged immigration authorities to focus on immigrants who were in the country illegally who also had felony convictions, as well as people who had recently arrived in the U.S. without authorization, and instead instructed officers to focus on people not only with convictions but pending charges, as well.
Few issues in America have been more contentious than immigration and what to do with the roughly 11 million people believed to be in the U.S. illegally. Here's a closer look at the numbers behind illegal immigration in the United States in 2017, as Trump nears the end of his first year in office.
Arrests along the Southwest border fell by nearly 24 percent in fiscal 2017
This figure is generally used as a benchmark for measuring illegal immigration overall at the Southwest border. Through the first four months of the Trump presidency, the number of people arrested dropped by 40 percent compared to the same period the year before, which means there were fewer illegal immigrants to arrest.
By the time Trump took office in January, apprehensions were on the decline from a high of 66,708 in October 2017 under then-President Barack Obama, but top administration officials say that Trump's tough-talking rhetoric helped reduce the level of illegal migration.
The number of arrests hit a monthly low of 15,766 in April, before resuming a steady month-over-month increase that reached 39,006 arrests in November – 38 percent fewer arrests than in November 2016 but several thousand more than in November 2014.
The recent rise over the summer seems to be driven by an increasing number of children and families arriving at the border. Most of the people arrested in 2017 came from countries other than Mexico, including more than 162,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The number of deportations fell 6 percent in fiscal 2017:
The pace of deportations has been hampered by backlogs in the courts and overcrowded detention facilities. But the decline in deportations is also due to the sharp drop in the number of people who flowed across the Southwest border this summer. Notably, the number of deportations that stemmed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests alone – not including people apprehended at ports or along the border by Customs and Border Protection or Border Patrol officers – rose 37 percent.
ICE earlier this year indicated that it was seeking to open as many as five new detention facilities to house all those it has taken into custody and to alleviate overcrowding.
Ninety-two percent of those arrested by ICE had a criminal conviction, a pending criminal charge, were an ICE fugitive or had re-entered the country after previously being removed by ICE.
Immigration advocates and outreach groups have sharply criticized the Trump administration's approach to immigration enforcement, which they say does far too little to distinguish dangerous criminals from those who migrated to the U.S. in search of better economic prospects or safe haven from violence. The 92 percent figure, for example, includes people charged with no crime other than crossing the border illegally. Officials have pushed back on those claims.
The number of people arrested "at-large" – in the broader community, as opposed to in a prison or jail – who had no criminal conviction more than doubled in fiscal 2017.
About 11 percent of those taken into custody by ICE had no known criminal charge or conviction. Another 15.5 percent had a pending criminal charge but no conviction.
Assaults against Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents jumped 44.8 percent.
While migration appears to be down, assaults against agents at ports and along the border leaped to 847 incidents in fiscal 2017. Incidents involving officers' use of firearms, though, fell to a record low of 17 incidents in fiscal 2017, down from 26 incidents the year before and a high of 55 in 2012.
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