OVERSEAS DETERRENCE PROGRAM

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OVERSEAS DETERRENCE PROGRAM
OPERATION BUS BOUND
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OPERATION BUS-BOUND
MISSION STATEMENT

• Operation Bus-Bound is Mexico City Districts
  initiative to intercept Central American migrants
  destined for the United States and safely
  repatriating them to their countries of origin,
  and to assist host country immigration agencies
  and the National Police in the identification of
  smuggling methodologies and organizations.

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OPERATION BUS-BOUND
OBJECTIVES

• Deter and disrupt migrant trafficking and illegal
  activity by assisting Mexico in returning illegal
  migrants who have used their national territory
  in an attempt to reach the United States.
• Diminish the substantial costs borne by the U.S.
  Federal government when migrants enter the U.S.
  illegally and are apprehended by the INS.
• To provide funding for the repatriation of the
  migrants who were destined for the U.S.

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OPERATION BUS-BOUND- ORDERLY REPATRIATION

• THE BUSES FILLED WITH PROCESSED MIGRANTS ARE
  LOADED IN TAPACHULA, MEXICO.
• COORDINATION IS DONE BY USINS WITH THE POLICIA
  NATIONAL CIVIL (PNC) AND GUATEMALAN IMMIGRATION.
• THE BUSES ARRIVE IN GUATEMALA ON A SET SCHEDULE.
• THE BUSES ARE BOARDED BY GUATEMALAN IMMIGRATION
  INSPECTORS, MONEY EXCHANGERS AND FOOD VENDERS.
• MEXICAN INM AND GUATEMALAN INS EXCHANGE STAMPED
  AND SEALED LISTS.
• THE PNC BOARD THE BUSES AND THEY PROCEED TO THE
  BORDERS OF EL SALVADOR AND HONDURAS.

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TAPACHULA HOLDING CELL, HONDURAS
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GUATEMALAN HOLDING CELL
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THE RESULTS

• TOTAL MIGRANTS REPATRIATED BETWEEN JULY 20, 2001
  AND JUNE 13, 2002 79,685
• DAILY AVERAGE REPATRIATED 315
• MONTHLY AVERAGE 7,883
• ESTIMATED FOR YEAR 94,596
• GUATS/EL SALS/HONDURANS/NICARAGUANS ARRESTED BY
  BORDER PATROL FY-01 23,566
• APPS FOR CENTRAL AMERICANS BY THE USBP ARE DOWN
  20

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RESULTSJuly 2001 to May-2002

• APPREHENSIONS
• OP BB 75,386
• USBP 18,395
• Operation Bus-Bound has reduced the flow of
  illegal migrants from Central America to the U.S
  by 76

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THE COST

• FY-01 732,792.93
• FY-02 890,918.70
• TOTAL 1,623,711.60
• MIGRANTS DETERRED TO JUNE 13, 2002 79,685
• COST PER MIGRANT 20.38

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SAVING TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

• EACH ILLEGAL ALIEN (OTM) ARRESTED IN THE US WILL
  COST APPROXIMATELY 2,700.00 IN DETENTION AND
  REMOVAL COSTS. AVE. STAY 36 DAYS X 75.00
  2,700.00
• SAVINGS THROUGH OPERATION BUS-BOUND DETERRENCE
  222,133,388.00 TO DATE.
• A RANDOM SAMPLING OF MIGRANTS 10 WERE
  PRIOR-DEPORTS AND CRIMINAL ALIENS. EACH WOULD
  COST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AN ADDITIONAL
  13,500.00. 180 DAYS
  INCARCERATION X 75.00 13,500.00.
• SAVINGS FOR NOT HAVING CRIMINAL ALIENS HOUSED IN
  U.S. FOR 1 CRIMINAL ALIENS 10,759,500.00
• TOTAL SAVINGS 223,757,100.00

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SAVINGS AT 50 ARREST RATE

• 40,000 migrants x 2,700 108,000,000.00
• 1 Criminal Aliens 400
  180 days incarceration _at_ 75.00 day Cost
  per criminal 13,500
  400 x 13,500 5,400,000.00
• TOTAL SAVINGS AT 50 ARREST RATE 113,400,000.00
  
• RATE IS FOR DETENTION AND REMOVAL COSTS ONLY.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• LAST YEAR (FY-01) MEXICAN INM APPREHENDED 75,000
  ILLEGAL MIGRANTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA WHO WERE
  DESTINED TO THE US.
• DUE TO A LACK OF MANPOWER, EQUIPMENT AND
  CAPITAL, THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT BELIEVES THEY ARE
  ONLY APPREHENDING 25-50 OF THE MIGRANTS CROSSING
  THEIR BORDERS.
• FY-01 THE US BORDER PATROL APPREHENDED 23,500
  CENTRAL AMERICANS.