Did you know that there has been a dramatic drop in illegal aliens trying to jump the border and enter the United States?
Well, there has been. And here are excerpts from two articles which discuss what it means:
From Betsy Woodruff’s article at thedailybeast.com:
In the 35 years Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro have been running a shelter in northern Mexico for undocumented immigrants, they’ve never seen a week like this one.
Since they opened it, upward of 1 million people have slept there on their way to the U.S. But on the day I visited, it was almost empty.
It didn’t used to be this way, Gilda and Juan Francisco, known as Paco, explained. In the decades since they opened the space to give migrants a place to shower and sleep before crossing the border, the shelter—with separate rooms full of bunkbeds for men and women—would regularly house 100 migrants per night. Sometimes, that number would hit 300 or more, and Gilda and Paco would pull out thin mattresses to fit everyone on the floor.
But today, those mattresses are neatly stacked in a closet, untouched. And the shelter is almost empty—no women travelers, and fewer than a dozen men.
They can only think of one explanation: President Donald Trump.
From an article at France24.com:
Encouraged by a sharp downturn in illegal border crossers, the US administration is ramping up a crackdown on undocumented immigrants, taking aim at both Central American laborers and Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley.
Police, prosecutors and judges have been ordered to take a harder line against all illegal immigrants, detaining anyone without papers and vigorously prosecuting more of them.
Hiring standards for immigration agents are being eased to quickly beef up their ranks, more facilities to hold detained immigrants are being built, and more judges are being added to handle cases.
And officials have been directed to round up illegal immigrants, even those in the country for decades, at places that used to be safe — courthouses, town halls, and cities offering them sanctuary.
Let’s see: Donald Trump’s election as President, combined with a series of aggressive actions to remove illegal aliens, has caused a dramatic downturn in attempts to jump the border.
Which part of this am I supposed to be anything but happy about.
Now, what – other than fewer illegal aliens – does it mean? What should it mean?
Hey, here’s a possibility: maybe it will cause attention to be drawn to WHY people desperately jump those borders to live in the shadows rather than as full citizens in their own countries.
Maybe it will cause attention to be drawn to the rampant corruption and rampant violence in those countries, where – other than a privileged few – human life has little or no value.
Maybe it will cause media to start blaming the people running those countries for their people’s despair rather than United States for taking in illegals by the millions.
Maybe it will cause media to demand those countries give a damn about their own people and DO something about the hellholes they are.
That would be wonderful.
Think it will ever happen?
With the number of illegal border crossings down drastically should we be considering not spending billions to build a wall and using that money for schools, infrastructure improvements and other budget cuts
No, we should build the wall for the reasons you list for not building it.
Illegal aliens are a huge drain on schools and infrastructure.
By building the wall it would pay for itself in a very short time, from the savings that illegal aliens cost us now. Then it would free up money to pay down the debt.