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'I don't know who's telling the president this is a good idea': Former ICE director says Trump's wall makes 'so little sense'
"El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border"
Michelle Mark
Jan. 22, 2019, 1:06 PM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana answers a question while testifying before a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Associated Press/Molly Riley
* A former director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told Yahoo News that President Donald Trump's border wall won't stop the "true threats."
* She said the wall might be effective in keeping out a young migrant child, but it won't do much to stop cartels that use submarines to ship drugs into the United States.
* "I don't know who's telling the president this is a good idea," she said.
The former director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said President Donald Trump's insistence on a border wall makes "so little sense" and fails to focus on the "true threats" facing the US-Mexico border.
Sarah Saldaña, who served as ICE director from 2014 to 2017, told Yahoo News .. https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-ice-director-trumps-proposed-wall-makes-little-sense-enforcement-220639526.html ' "Through Her Eyes" on Monday that the border wall is an ineffective solution that won't solve the right problems.
"The true threat is not a mother or child at the border. That is not a true threat. It's not a mother or a child or a family in the interior already here for one two three, 10, 20 years," Saldaña said. "It can be effective to some degree. It may be that a small child cannot scale a wall, perhaps. Is that the person we're trying to keep out?"
Trump has refused to back down on his demand that Congress authorize $5.7 billion for 230 miles of border barriers. He has spent much of the last month railing against issues .. https://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-trump-primetime-address-border-wall-immigration-2019-1?_ga=2.82641300.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. like crime, drugs, and record numbers of asylum-seeking families — none of which are problems experts say a wall can salve.
Saldaña noted that a wall won't do much to protect Americans against cartels, for instance, who sometimes use submarines to haul drugs up the coast.
Customs and Border Protection data .. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics .. also show that the vast majority of drugs seized at the border are caught at legal ports of entry — not in areas that lack barriers. In the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2018, 90% of heroin, 88% of cocaine, 87% of methamphetamine, and 80% of fentanyl that US authorities seized were all found at legal ports of entry.
Read more: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS: Experts say there is no security crisis, but there is a simple way to fix immigration — and it's not a wall
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-crisis-speech-not-fixed-by-wall-shutdown-2019-1?_ga=2.74383632.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
Mexican migrants prepare to jump the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico,
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Associated Press/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
"That's not going to be effective against them. And isn't that the group we're trying to keep out? Those that truly present a threat to public safety?" she said. "In my view, that's where the rubber meets the road."
Saldaña helmed ICE through the latter years of the Obama administration, when the sky-high deportation rates began to decline.
Though former President Barack Obama also faced heavy scrutiny from immigration advocates over its record number of deportations .. https://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-latino-groups-expect-relief-after-meeting-with-deporter-in-chief-2014-14?_ga=2.99536284.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. in the early years of his presidency, and his handling of a 2014 influx .. https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5?_ga=2.99536284.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. of unaccompanied migrant children, Saldaña said during her time at ICE, decisions were made based on weighing effectiveness with cost.
The Customs and Border Protection agency has estimated .. https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf .. that each mile of border fencing designed to stop people costs $6.5 million. That's a high price to pay for a barrier that would span hundreds of miles and wouldn't affect threats like drug trafficking, Saldaña said.
"I don't know who's telling the president this is a good idea," she said. "The true threats are those persons who come to do harm to our country, and that's quite frankly a very small number compared to the number of people who seek entry. This is why the wall that is being proposed, enforcement-wise, makes so little sense."
Read more of INSIDER's immigration coverage:
While the US is fixated on Mexico and the wall, thousands of migrants are fleeing for Canada in a dramatically different scene
https://www.insider.com/asylum-seekers-fleeing-us-for-canada-champlain-ny-2019-1
Trump's 'common-sense compromise' on immigration to end the government shutdown isn't a compromise at all, critics say
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-immigration-deal-government-shutdown-daca-tps-compromise-2019-1?_ga=2.78063894.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
Trump offered Democrats a limited immigration 'compromise' to end the shutdown. Democrats say it's a 'hostage taking.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-rejected-trumps-latest-offer-to-end-the-government-shutdown-daca-2019-1?_ga=2.78063894.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
376 migrants, including 179 kids, used 7 tunnels to get under the US border fence in Arizona
https://www.insider.com/video-shows-migrants-tunneled-under-border-fence-2019-1
https://www.insider.com/former-ice-director-sarah-saldana-says-trumps-wall-doesnt-stop-true-threat-2019-1
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NEW BOOK DETAILS HOW REPUBLICAN LEADERS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE TRUMP
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by sea, by air, by truck
[...]
JimLur, Since profit margins from Fentanyl
[...]
To secure certain areas a wall or barrier will be needed for sure.
We already have 700 miles of fencing and barriers.
What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall)
[...]
The report was based on internal Customs and Border Protection documents from the 2017 fiscal year. It concluded that less
than one half of 1 percent of the agents’ suggestions to secure the Southwest border mentioned the need for a wall.
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With others - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145814604
Democracy Is for the Gods
Just scratch the surface of the human community and soon you will find the horde
[...]
And what a sweet surrender! Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler and
Mussolini were all smooth talkers, charmers of crowds and great political seducers.
P -Their relationship with the crowd was particularly intimate. For in regimes of this kind, whenever power is used
and displayed, the effect is profoundly erotic. What we see, for instance, in “The Triumph of the Will” (thanks,
in good measure, to Leni Riefenstahl’s perverse genius), is people experiencing a sort of collective ecstasy
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Trump has attacked/is attacking the constitution in innumerable ways.
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what border?
Staggering Philly drug bust shows traffickers turning to East Coast
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As you know - Trump is a policy simpleton, but he’s a shrewd survivor
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Only One House Republican Represents the Borderland, and He Opposes a Wall
"Fool me once..."
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What Happened When A Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall
Facts at your fingertips. Perhaps this will be helpful to someone.
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"El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border"
Michelle Mark
Jan. 22, 2019, 1:06 PM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana answers a question while testifying before a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Associated Press/Molly Riley
* A former director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told Yahoo News that President Donald Trump's border wall won't stop the "true threats."
* She said the wall might be effective in keeping out a young migrant child, but it won't do much to stop cartels that use submarines to ship drugs into the United States.
* "I don't know who's telling the president this is a good idea," she said.
The former director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said President Donald Trump's insistence on a border wall makes "so little sense" and fails to focus on the "true threats" facing the US-Mexico border.
Sarah Saldaña, who served as ICE director from 2014 to 2017, told Yahoo News .. https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-ice-director-trumps-proposed-wall-makes-little-sense-enforcement-220639526.html ' "Through Her Eyes" on Monday that the border wall is an ineffective solution that won't solve the right problems.
"The true threat is not a mother or child at the border. That is not a true threat. It's not a mother or a child or a family in the interior already here for one two three, 10, 20 years," Saldaña said. "It can be effective to some degree. It may be that a small child cannot scale a wall, perhaps. Is that the person we're trying to keep out?"
Trump has refused to back down on his demand that Congress authorize $5.7 billion for 230 miles of border barriers. He has spent much of the last month railing against issues .. https://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-trump-primetime-address-border-wall-immigration-2019-1?_ga=2.82641300.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. like crime, drugs, and record numbers of asylum-seeking families — none of which are problems experts say a wall can salve.
Saldaña noted that a wall won't do much to protect Americans against cartels, for instance, who sometimes use submarines to haul drugs up the coast.
Customs and Border Protection data .. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics .. also show that the vast majority of drugs seized at the border are caught at legal ports of entry — not in areas that lack barriers. In the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2018, 90% of heroin, 88% of cocaine, 87% of methamphetamine, and 80% of fentanyl that US authorities seized were all found at legal ports of entry.
Read more: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS: Experts say there is no security crisis, but there is a simple way to fix immigration — and it's not a wall
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-crisis-speech-not-fixed-by-wall-shutdown-2019-1?_ga=2.74383632.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
Mexican migrants prepare to jump the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico,
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Associated Press/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
"That's not going to be effective against them. And isn't that the group we're trying to keep out? Those that truly present a threat to public safety?" she said. "In my view, that's where the rubber meets the road."
Saldaña helmed ICE through the latter years of the Obama administration, when the sky-high deportation rates began to decline.
Though former President Barack Obama also faced heavy scrutiny from immigration advocates over its record number of deportations .. https://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-latino-groups-expect-relief-after-meeting-with-deporter-in-chief-2014-14?_ga=2.99536284.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. in the early years of his presidency, and his handling of a 2014 influx .. https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5?_ga=2.99536284.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128 .. of unaccompanied migrant children, Saldaña said during her time at ICE, decisions were made based on weighing effectiveness with cost.
The Customs and Border Protection agency has estimated .. https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/682838.pdf .. that each mile of border fencing designed to stop people costs $6.5 million. That's a high price to pay for a barrier that would span hundreds of miles and wouldn't affect threats like drug trafficking, Saldaña said.
"I don't know who's telling the president this is a good idea," she said. "The true threats are those persons who come to do harm to our country, and that's quite frankly a very small number compared to the number of people who seek entry. This is why the wall that is being proposed, enforcement-wise, makes so little sense."
Read more of INSIDER's immigration coverage:
While the US is fixated on Mexico and the wall, thousands of migrants are fleeing for Canada in a dramatically different scene
https://www.insider.com/asylum-seekers-fleeing-us-for-canada-champlain-ny-2019-1
Trump's 'common-sense compromise' on immigration to end the government shutdown isn't a compromise at all, critics say
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-immigration-deal-government-shutdown-daca-tps-compromise-2019-1?_ga=2.78063894.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
Trump offered Democrats a limited immigration 'compromise' to end the shutdown. Democrats say it's a 'hostage taking.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-rejected-trumps-latest-offer-to-end-the-government-shutdown-daca-2019-1?_ga=2.78063894.324039560.1562998128-212950516.1562998128
376 migrants, including 179 kids, used 7 tunnels to get under the US border fence in Arizona
https://www.insider.com/video-shows-migrants-tunneled-under-border-fence-2019-1
https://www.insider.com/former-ice-director-sarah-saldana-says-trumps-wall-doesnt-stop-true-threat-2019-1
See also:
NEW BOOK DETAILS HOW REPUBLICAN LEADERS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE TRUMP
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149849352
by sea, by air, by truck
[...]
JimLur, Since profit margins from Fentanyl
[...]
To secure certain areas a wall or barrier will be needed for sure.
We already have 700 miles of fencing and barriers.
What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall)
[...]
The report was based on internal Customs and Border Protection documents from the 2017 fiscal year. It concluded that less
than one half of 1 percent of the agents’ suggestions to secure the Southwest border mentioned the need for a wall.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145797835
With others - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145814604
Democracy Is for the Gods
Just scratch the surface of the human community and soon you will find the horde
[...]
And what a sweet surrender! Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler and
Mussolini were all smooth talkers, charmers of crowds and great political seducers.
P -Their relationship with the crowd was particularly intimate. For in regimes of this kind, whenever power is used
and displayed, the effect is profoundly erotic. What we see, for instance, in “The Triumph of the Will” (thanks,
in good measure, to Leni Riefenstahl’s perverse genius), is people experiencing a sort of collective ecstasy
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149765840
Trump has attacked/is attacking the constitution in innumerable ways.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149763579
what border?
Staggering Philly drug bust shows traffickers turning to East Coast
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149772644
As you know - Trump is a policy simpleton, but he’s a shrewd survivor
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149209013
Only One House Republican Represents the Borderland, and He Opposes a Wall
"Fool me once..."
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146304865
What Happened When A Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall
Facts at your fingertips. Perhaps this will be helpful to someone.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145778462
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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