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II. Allegations of Artificial Limits on Apprehensions. A. The strategy of Operation Gatekeeper. B. Allegations that supervisors set limits on the number of aliens who could be apprehended in a day or on a particular shift. 1. Allegations that supervisors told agents to reduce apprehensions. 2.
Fraud allegations concerning Operation Gatekeeper were first communicated to the OIG in February 1996, when an INS employee gave a confidential statement to an OIG agent. Border Patrol Union officials began making public allegations of fraud in June 1996. The OIG investigated every allegation, regardless of the manner in which it was raised.
In fiscal year 1994, the year immediately preceding implementation of Operation Gatekeeper, the Sector apprehended 447,540 illegal aliens, accounting for almost 44 percent of Border Patrol apprehensions nationwide and more than three times as many apprehensions as the second busiest sector.
Prior to Gatekeeper the goal was to apprehend as many aliens as possible, an objective that all of the agents understood. Setting deterrence goals was more difficult because there is no objective measure of how many aliens were deterred on any given shift. The only proxy for measuring deterrence was a decrease in apprehensions.
May 23, 2007 · 2 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Operation Gatekeeper: An Investigation Into Allegations of Fraud and Misconduct, July 1998. 3 See e.g., 8 U.S.C. §1103 (a)(5). 4 U.S. Government Accountability Office, Border Control — Revised Strategy is Showing Some Positive Results, GAO/GGD-95-30, January 31, 1995.
Oct 1, 2019 · Operation Gatekeeper launched Oct. 1, ... But apprehensions dropped dramatically in the years following Gatekeeper — from more than 524,000 in fiscal 1995 to about 38,500 last year.
Public allegations of possible fraud in the conduct of Operation Gatekeeper first appeared in a June 1996 Harper's magazine article. 18 The 16-page article - entitled "Masters of the Game: How the U.S. Protects the Traffic in Cheap Mexican Labor" - focused on the Border Patrol's efforts in the San Diego Sector since Operation Gatekeeper began.
