In 2021 the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986. The Border Patrol reported 608,037 encounters with Mexican nationals in 2021, accounting for 37% of the total. The remaining 1,051,169 encounters, or 63%, involved people from countries other than Mexico – by far the highest total for non-Mexican nationals in CBP records dating back to 2000. Congress has passed at least four laws since 1986 authorizing increases in Border Patrol personnel. The number of bor…
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Yes, but No, but increase investment in Mexico and Latin American nations to help them to develop so that they could help the immigrants to settle down.
@P3ZGMM4yrs4Y
A military no man zone between the countries. Armed military units on full alert at all times stationed all along it. Nothing living be allowed to cross. At least not alive
@NYDRSX4yrs4Y
Keep border security the same but make it illegal with more enforcement for hiring illegals and educating them and eliminate access to any healthcare. All the things that they come here for can only be achived through citizenship, a current visa and/or passport.
@NTCX9F4yrs4Y
I live in Texas, and often work along the Border, which has become the Berlin Wall of North America for the legal crossings by families and workers. The red herring is "security." We need to protect ourselves from the narcotrafficantes, who are the danger (not workers and terrorists). Drug reform would end at least a part of the need for security. The river has been there before there was a USA, and I live in what used to be Mexico.
@NSLGCH4yrs4Y
If you heavily prosecute employers who hire illegal immigrants, then those companies will be forced to offer living wages that Americans are wiling to work for or shut down. That's how capitalism works. If illegals can't work, they have no reason to come over the border.
@N6P7TS4yrs4Y
Yes, and remove citizenship by birth when parents are not us citizens or legal immigrants.
@N56Z7G4yrs4Y
No, enforce current laws and punish severely any U.S. company/business that employs illegal immigrants knowingly.
@N54RR74yrs4Y
I think we are not actually looking at reasonable ways to control the borders. I dislike the bulk of what I have heard suggested. The current ideas are ONLY about making someone richer.
@N4D3DC4yrs4Y
Stop propping up corrupt states.
@N3T4QT4yrs4Y
We are simply a dumping ground for the unwanted . Mexico is one of the most corrupt. The richest man in the world is a mexican---of spanish descent.
@N2SQQ54yrs4Y
No, and make it easier for immigrants to access temporary work visas, but require them to have a job if they came under that agreement, and require employers to give preference to U.S. citizens applying for the same job before hiring immigrants where both are qualified for the job. Also, don't let employers get away with not paying at least minimum wage (raise minimum wage) so that U.S. citizens are more likely to apply for the job too.