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Published: 11 January 2019 11 January 2019

Dear Editor:

The most recent Undeniably Right column states that 78% of apprehensions on our southern border are convicted criminals, up from 45% previously.

This sounded high, so I looked at the statistics on the border patrol web site and found that 6500 of 352,000 apprehensions during FY2018 had criminal records. That works out to a bit less than 2%.

The 6500 number includes 3600 who had been convicted of illegal entry into the US. Weeding those out cuts the rate to less than 1%

I'd be interested to hear the source of the author's numbers.

Tim Matthes
Silver City, NM.