On Monday night, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly confirmed to Wolf Blitzer what one of his senior officials had said days before: DHS is considering separating children from their parents at the border.

"Yes I'm considering [that], in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network," Kelly said. "I am considering exactly that. They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents." Blitzer followed up by asking Kelly whether he realized how this initiative might appear to some Americans (you know, the ones with a heart). "It's more important to me, Wolf, to try to keep people off of this awful network," he replied.

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Of the Trump Administration's two largest enemies—the media and immigrants—the inflated rhetoric toward the latter has thus far amounted in significantly more action. With a second attempt at a Muslim not-ban ban issued Monday, the introduction of VOICE (Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement) during last week's speech to Congress, and increased ICE raids in recent weeks, Trump is living up to his promise of cracking down on immigration.

But as the vilification of immigrants and the heightened action taken against them continues, it's as important as ever to revisit the realities of the situation. Of the 11 million total undocumented immigrants currently residing in the U.S., 60 percent have been in the States for more than a decade, The New York Times reports. These are people who have established lives here. One third of them over the age of 15 are living with a child who was born a U.S. citizen, and 30 percent own homes. And contrary to Trump's rhetoric, very few of them are criminals. Whereas 6 percent of Americans have committed a felony as of 2010, just 3 percent of the unauthorized 11 million can say the same.

As for Mexican immigration, according to the most recent numbers released by Pew, the number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally has decreased by more than 1 million from its peak of 6.9 million in 2007. In fact, the net migration from Mexico has been negative since 2008. Likewise, the number of people convicted of illegally re-entering via the southwest border declined by more than 25 percent from 2011 to 2015.

These numbers hardly paint a picture of immigrants "pouring across the southern border."

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