Page Report: Report and Border Crossings

page report: That much lower than the 81 per cent success rate that Homeland Security cited publicly using a different counting method, according to Brandon Sun. The 98-page report was completed in May, and Homeland Security officials have declined to release it, despite urging from some members of Congress. The report found that 54 per cent of people who entered illegally between border crossings got caught in the 2015 fiscal year. The Associated Press obtained a copy from a government official involved in border issues who acted on condition of anonymity because the department has not made the report public. The report offers some of most detailed measures yet of how secure the border with Mexico is — a major issue in a presidential campaign that features Republican nominee Donald Trump calling for a wall along the entire 1,954-mile border. The department said Thursday that the report was "one building block provided by a research organization" toward developing more reliable measures of border security and that its methodology needed refinement."DHS does not believe it is in the public interest to release, and it would be irresponsible to make policy or other judgments on the basis of analysis that is incomplete and remains a work in progress," spokeswoman Marsha Catron said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.