UCSD: border apprehensions' decrease not related to enforcement strategy
[...] The new research conducted by Cornelius' team indicates that the condition of the U.S. economy is far more significant in explaining the recent decline in border apprehensions than any of the enforcement-only measures that have been implemented to date. Border-enforcement efforts will continue to be largely ineffectual until the U.S. immigration system is brought into line with the ups and downs of U.S. labor demand, which drives so much of undocumented immigration in the first place. Enforcement is not a substitute for reform. American Patrol Report -- June 21
What nonsense. Where a proper fence has been installed, apprehensions of illegal aliens dropped significantly. Just as drug smugglers are having a tough time getting their poisons into the U.S., illegal aliens are facing greater obstacles caused by new fencing. In San Diego the double-layered fence reduced apprehensions by more than 95%.. But ten miles east at Tecate, DHS left in place old 10-foot fencing and much of what DHS calls fencing isn't fencing at all. h
"Open borders advocates hate the fence because they know that, when properly installed, it works," said Glenn Spencer of the American Border Patrol. Spencer said ABP would be filing an updated report on the border fence on June 27th.
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