Is Obama administration suppressing illegal immigration numbers by not arresting?

Is Obama administration suppressing illegal immigration numbers by not arresting?

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By Michael Whipple  Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds’ No-Apprehension Policy - FOX News FOX News reports that Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever has received numerous calls and emails from border agents confirming that they have been told not to arrest illegal border crossers but to turn them back south. “Upper management has advised supervisors to have agents ‘turn back South’ (TBS) the illegal aliens (aka bodies) they detect attempting to unlawfully enter the country… at times you even hear supervisors order the agents over the radio to ‘TBS’ the aliens instead of catching them,” one San Diego border agent wrote in an email to Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever. Recently DHS secretary Janet Napolitano cited lower arrest numbers as evidence that the “border is as secure now as it has ever been”. In early April Sheriff Dever disagreed with Napolitano’s assessment. Dever told CNSNews.com that: “We do not know who’s crossing that border,” Dever said, adding that “anyone who wants to, can. That’s the message our nation needs to hear—that anyone who wants to (cross the border) can, and is. And our own Department of Homeland Security does not have a clear definition of what securing the border even means.” MORE... http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/35684 *****