claim: numbers on illegal immigrants "are down in terms of apprehensions, which indicates fewer illegal crossings, but also up in terms of actual enforcement actions."
author: janet napolitano
evidence_1: oct 30, 2013 ... ice is arresting and removing noticeably fewer illegal aliens from the interior ...  enforcement in favor of processing aliens who are apprehended by the border  patrol. ... raw statistics reveal the real story of ice enforcement in decline ....  of removals, but for the purposes of this paper, the term deportation ...
evidence_2: aug 31, 2012 ... scenario 1: fewer people from mexico try to cross the southwest border, so  border ... apprehensions go down, but illegal immigration does not. ... southwest  border is under "operational control,” a term that represents the level of ....  attempting to illegally cross the border because of beefed up enforcement.
evidence_3: apr 23, 2012 ... the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to ... illegal  border crossings, the long-term decline in mexico's birth rates ... absolute  numbers but as a share of the immigrant population at the ... as of 2011, some  6.1 million unauthorized mexican immigrants were living in the u.s., down from ...
evidence_4: indeed, after 1965 the number of immigrants entering the country did ..... border  build-up was increasingly disconnected from the actual traffic in illegal migrants.
evidence_5: oct 23, 2014 ... but the immigration system is broken and in need of an overhaul. ... by 2012,  immigrants made up 13 percent of the total u.s. population. ... immigrants today  are putting down roots across the united states, in contrast to ... the majority of  undocumented immigrants are long-term residents, committed to ...