What Democrats Won’t Tell You: National Guard Arrested 23,034 Illegal Immigrants and Seized 35,000 lbs of Drugs During Border Deployment

Despite Democrat claims that Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to the border in 2018 was simply a political one with no real effect, a report recently released revealed that in actuality, the measure was quite effective.

That is, if you consider over 23,000 arrests and 35,000 pounds of drugs seized “effective”!  

I do!

It also proves one other thing:  there most definitely is an emergency on the southern border!  

I’m not sure how you could consider these statistics to be anything else.

And in fact, those aren’t even full year numbers.  The National Guard was only deployed for the second half of 2018, so those are really only six month numbers.

Wow!

The Washington Examiner had the following to say on the story:

National Guard troops helped with the arrest of 23,034 illegal immigrants and the seizure of more than 35,000 pounds of drugs in the roughly six months they were deployed to the border in fiscal 2018, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The more than 23,000 people arrested were “deportable” noncitizens, DHS said. The operation, dubbed “Guardian Support,” also led federal law enforcement to more than 6,100 people who were later turned back, the data said.

Because guardsmen are military personnel and not law enforcement officers, they cannot apprehend people. CBP officers and Border Patrol agents apprehended thousands as a result of guardsmen who were monitoring cameras, flying helicopters, and piloting planes.

The Whie House itself confirmed these numbers in the following Tweet:

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