Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Capture rate Date:   8/24/2021 12:40:21 PM

First of all, the number of illegals trying to get into the U.S. is what is creating the crisis at the border.  CBP has neither the facilities nor the resources to take care of them before sending them back into Mexico.  You act like this isn't a crisis because they are caught.  Just having 2M show up on our border and overwhelming CBP is the crisis.  Second, CBP admits a certain percentage of them into the country....hence all the stories about busloads of them being dropped off in certain cities in TX and FL.  That number varies but at no time has been less than 5% and is usually more.  So that's at least 100,000 illegals that are intercepted and then released with a summons date that almost none of them show up to.  Third, while it is difficult to estimate the number that are not interdicted most estimates range from 55% to 85%.  If you take the mid point of that number that means that 30% of illegals do not get caught by CBP.  That's another 600,000 illegals that will get into the U.S. in 2021 if the 2M estimate holds true.  

So please stop acting like this isn't a crisis because it is.  And don't pretend that every illegal that is caught by CBP is turned away.  And don't ignore the hundreds of thousands that are never caught.  If this continues at its current pace for the 4 years of Biden's admin that will be almost 3M illegals entering the country....or a 30% increase from the numbers in January 2021 when he took office.  It has to stop.