EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Numbers Show Migrant Got-Aways Soar as Border Apprehensions Hit 15-Year High
A U.S. Border Patrol source reports the number of migrant got-aways tallied by the agency surpassed 118,000 for this fiscal year. In less than six months, the got-away number is nearly double that for all of Fiscal Year 2020. Last year, 69,000 illegal immigrants managed to avoid apprehension by the Border Patrol. Sources report the sharpest increase began in January as President Joe Biden took office.
This particular metric is usually not released by Department of Homeland Security officials. The numbers are achieved by counting illegal immigrants who ultimately escape Border Patrol apprehension after being observed by aircraft platforms and camera systems. In addition, Border Patrol agents using traditional sign-cutting techniques identify footprints crossing the border and count those that elude apprehension.
The Sensible Sentencing Trust at 20: People will get angry again
12 Mar, 2021 01:59 AM
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Garth and Jess McVicar of Sensible Sentencing Trust talk to Thomas Airey about the trust s work 20 years on. Video / Warren Buckland
Garth and Jess McVicar of Sensible Sentencing Trust talk to Thomas Airey about the trust s work 20 years on. Video / Warren Buckland
People will get angry again. The McVicars are counting on it. The Sensible Sentencing Trust recently turned 20, a customary email landing in the inbox of every media organisation in NZ the only act of public fanfare to note it.
Garth McVicar, the Hawke s Bay farmer who founded the SST, is proud it s still going, but he has some regrets too.