Experts: Trump’s Tough Talk, Enforcement Lead to Drop in Illegals
May 1, 2017 Leave a comment
Even though President Donald Trump’s promise to build a Mexican border wall has made no progress in Congress and his travel ban aimed at some Muslim-majority countries has been blocked by the courts, the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States has dropped markedly since he took office, while recent declines in the number of deportations have been reversed, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
Many experts on both sides of the immigration debate credit the change to Trump’s tough rhetoric and the administration’s public emphasis on enforcement raids….
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