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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]El Salvador’s bigger solution is just to allow most of their criminals to flee to the US, knowing there’s very little chance they’ll be stopped at the border, and after crossing it unmolested, they will be El Norte’s problem.

Let’s not pretend they’ve developed some kind of criminal justice miracle down there, ok? For every hardened criminal they lock away, there’s dozens that are allowed to slip away to the north. [/quote]

From the article:

The strategy has helped lower homicides by 92% compared with 2015, giving Bukele the support of nine of every 10 Salvadorans, polls show. [b]The number of Salvadorans illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by 44%[/b][/quote]

So instead of 100 Salvadorans crossing the border it’s only 56 now?  :roll:

Not really sure why you see that as some giant victory, but I guess you have to make silk purses out of sow’s ears whenever you can with this administration.

Further, I’ve known lots of Salvadorans who came here to *escape* crime at home. So by reducing crime in El Salvador, it’s entirely possible that the 44% figure you cite are people who are no longer fleeing crime (and thus not criminals themselves) and staying home, while the remaining 56% figure is still composed of criminals, only now more concentrated.

The subtext of statistics can change rapidly if you examine the numbers. [/quote]

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