Exactly. They can track apprehensions and border crossings through points of entry. Nobody knows, one way or another, how many people cross through undetected. So it's a moot point to bring that up. The known and verified data shows there's nothing even close to a crisis at the southern border. To argue the opposite, you'd have to make **** up out of thin air, and suggest hordes of illegal immigrants are coming into the country undetected and unknown by anyone.
to the contrary.
let's fact check the MS-13 point being made. I'll even use Snopes.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/criminal-aliens-gang-members/
“Criminal Aliens”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) considers someone as having a criminal record if that person has “been convicted of crime, whether in the United States or abroad, so long as the conviction is for conduct which is deemed criminal by the United States.” Broadly speaking, the “over 17,000 adults arrested at the border had prior criminal records” claim holds up, but context is important. Of the 17,000 adults referenced here, 63 percent were not attempting to cross the southern border on land between ports of entry, and therefore their inclusion in a “wall” fact post is misleading, as explained by Public Radio International (PRI):
A full 63 percent of those individuals were “encountered” by the Office of Field Operations (OFO). Those are the people you meet at the airport and at border crossings. In other words, the “criminal aliens” they encountered were travelers who failed routine checks at legal entry ports and were denied entry.
Those “encountered” individuals would have been immediately deported, thanks to fingerprinting efforts at ports of entry. In terms of individuals encountered crossing the U.S.-Mexico border where a wall might one day exist, only 6,259 individuals with criminal records were encountered by agents in between ports of entry in 2018, according to U.S. Border Patrol statistics.
Those 6,259 or so individuals represent just 1.7% of the 361,993 total number of people encountered by U.S Border Patrol between ports of entry in 2018. Furthermore, nearly 50% of the crimes related to this list of “criminal alien” encounters involved individuals whose criminal status stemmed from past failed attempts to cross the border
the key number here is 6,259 - even though those people represent " just 1.7% of the 361,993 total number of people encountered by U.S Border Patrol between ports of entry in 2018".
hold onto that number,
6,259, as they represent the criminals coming over. That's what Snopes says and no leftie has ever disagreed with Snopes. So we won't start now.
The correctional population in this country is currently, or at last report, 7,259,500 (give or take a few hundred or thousand, since that number is too clean to be 100% true).
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus16.pdf
We have a total of 6,046 correctional centers (State prisons, Federal prisons, Juvenile detention facilities, jails).
Which makes that approximately 1,200 people per facility.
Per veritas, it costs between $31,000 and $60,000 to house an inmate per year, nationwide
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/15/world/how-much-does-it-cost-send-someone-prison
Which, when extrapolated, is $225,044,500,000. per year. Using the low end of $31,000 per prisoner per year.
but, back to the earlier number. 6,259.
That represents fIve additional prison/correctional center populations. Which is $194,029,000. per year. Using the low end of $31,000 per prisoner per year.
This is also more money than we give to many countries in foreign aid. And represents money we could spend on our own homeless population, veterans healthcare, etc, etc.
