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CBS News reports once again that illegal immigration is way down

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From CBS News:

The number of migrants unlawfully crossing the U.S. southern border has continued to drop markedly in July, nearing a threshold that would require officials to lift a partial ban on asylum claims enacted by President Biden, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.

For the record, this means the month of July will end up looking approximately like this:

But this isn't what I'm really interested in. What I want to know is why Camilo Montoya-Galvez is always given early access to these numbers. Is it a leak, and Border Patrol officials can't figure out who's the mole? Is Montoya-Galvez just the only person who asks? And if the figures are maintained on a daily basis, why not release them on a daily basis? Or monthly but, say, two days after the end of the month since they're apparently available then?

What's the deal with this?

16 thoughts on “CBS News reports once again that illegal immigration is way down”

  1. lowreyd

    Kevin,

    There is a simple answer: The Border Patrol is our most incompetent, overly political, worst trained, worst staffed Federal police force. It also has the most unchecked power within 200 miles of the border.

    It needs serious reform and a lot of money to become more effective because it also has a miserable, difficult mission to perform.

      1. lowreyd

        or
        https://www.propublica.org/article/a-group-of-agents-rose-through-the-ranks-to-lead-the-border-patrol-theyre-leaving-it-in-crisis

        or
        https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Protected-Border-Patrol-Dangerous/dp/1640095209/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ES68DZY8GTTU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Qb7hcIcD2dNqxJuQFmKeig.H6F6jO1r8M_ceYPjEK1ylb0glh-eUsB36ffVzx2MoYA&dib_tag=se&keywords=Nobody+is+Protected%3A+How+the+Border+Patrol+Became+the+Most+Dangerous+Police+Force+in+the+United+States&qid=1721780117&sprefix=nobody+is+protected+how+the+border+patrol+became+the+most+dangerous+police+force+in+the+united+states%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1

        or
        https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/not-one-bad-apple/525327/

        The list is very long

        1. LactatingAlgore

          i shuddered seeing quillette jr (the atlantic) in that third link.

          can't begin to imagine where the free speech absolutist antidei anticrt antiwoke culturewarriors there comedown on whitepower in the border patrol.

  3. lower-case

    What I want to know is why Camilo Montoya-Galvez is always given early access

    now *there's a strangely specific obsession

    i picture kevin's cork board with a picture of camilo montoya-galvez and a bunch of push-pin/yarn connection diagrams to a card with a big question mark titled 'senior u.s. customs and border protection (CBP) official'

  5. rick_jones

    And if the figures are maintained on a daily basis, why not release them on a daily basis?

    Given the rampant innumeracy in this country among both the reporter/journalist class and the rest of the population, do you really think it would be a good idea to publish what would undoubtedly be a very noisy data set?

  6. Jasper_in_Boston

    We need a new term to replace "illegal immigration"—which these days is being asked to cover a large number of migrants who aren't illegal. Rather, they're coming in via our asylum laws. This isn't just a technicality: the vast majority of these people are given work visas while they're waiting for hearing dates. They're not in the country illegal.

    I nominate "irregular immigration."

    1. shapeofsociety

      Good one. The asylum exploit feels intuitively like it should be illegal, so much that most people assume it is in fact illegal even though it actually is not.

      1. jdubs

        Many people dont draw a much of a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. Its the appearance and culture of the person that matters, not their legal status.
        Asylum seekers from parts of Russia or Ukraine feel intuitively legal while asylum seekers from central America feel intuitively illegal. But we dance around the matter carefully.

      2. Jasper_in_Boston

        Good one. The asylum exploit feels intuitively like it should be illegal...

        It's definitely a loophole. I don't think anybody doubts that, not long ago, the vast bulk of migrants trying to claim asylum would, in fact, simply be trying to gain illegal entry into the country.

        But yeah, requesting asylum is not illegal.

        We probably do need some tweaks to asylum procedures. And we clearly need a massively beefed up asylum claim adjudication capacity. But we could also use (I'd argue) more precise terminology!

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