Things at the southern border have actually - improved. See message on new study. Posted: Jan 17th, 2019 - 1:35 pm In Reply to: My point was. Illegals are not just coming - through the southern border.
As the Trump administration demands funding for a border wall to stop illegal immigration, a new study finds that for the seventh consecutive year, visa overstays far exceeded unauthorized border crossings.
The report was released Wednesday by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. People who overstayed their visas accounted for 62 percent of the newly undocumented, while 38 percent had crossed a border illegally.
The study also finds that the undocumented population from Mexico fell by almost 400,000 people in 2017 and that since 2010, the number of undocumented from that country fell by 1.3 million.
The Bush and Obama administrations had roughly doubled the size of the Border Patrol and the country has seen results. In another era, we would be celebrating our success.
"Since more than one half of all US undocumented residents arrive by air, visa-issuing posts have become the real frontline deterrent to undocumented migration," the study concludes. "This report suggests that more attention and resources should be given to that crucial mission of the US Department of State."
The study also finds that in 2017, for the first time, the unauthorized population from Mexico constituted less than one-half of all the undocumented people in the U.S.
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