 but we're certain that it is also due in very large measure to the deterrent factor of our border security efforts. However, when we asked Liz Elio-Pereira, the senior ICE official, if detention was used as a deterrent to illegal immigration, she said it wasn't so black and white. It's not something that we're looking at as a way to provide a punitive measure to individuals who are crossing our borders, but we are charged with the enforcement of immigration laws