The U.S. Border Patrol is part of the DHS Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

The stats below are from the CBP Website. There is a lot more HERE .

CBP apprehended over 1.02 million people at and between our ports of entry during FY 2008.

CBP seized more than 2.78 million pounds of narcotics during FY 2008.

During Fiscal Year ( end 1 October) 2008, CBP apprehended more than 200 people with serious criminal records including murder, rape, and child molestation.

According to the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, “in 2008, agents in the Tucson Sector made an average of 837 apprehensions of Mexicans daily, down from 1,000-plus a day the previous two years”.

FYI – John McCain has told congress that Border Patrol successfully apprehends one of every gour illegal border crossers, which is that agencies official estimate. Having been on the border in Arizona many times and spoken to young Border Patrol Agents who are right now risking their lives to protect us. When their supervisors were not around, many of them have told me that they are lucky to catch one of every eight or ten illegal crossers.

After they are let out on the southern side of the border, most illegal crossers who get caught simply try again until they make it .

My point is this…at a million two hundred thousand apprehensions in 2008, OUR BORDERS ARE NOT SECURE!