Sorry but illegal immigration has been in decline since 2000. You can see this through Southern border apprehensions.
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The law is being enforced. Obama removed more illegals than any president before him (look under the removals column below in the ICE chart). Not only was immigration and apprehensions significantly down under Obama, mainly due to 2008 economic collapse, but despite that he forcibly removed more than prior two administrations.
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The law has been and continues to be enforced. The problem is that you have fallen for the rhetoric. The immigration issue under Trump has fallen to point that it has become state sponsored xenophobia shrouded in a fudged economic argument. To return to rationality one needs to look at actual statistics and not listen to the talking heads on TV or the proliferation of populist rhetoric online.
However, I'm glad you understand that illegal immigration cannot be stopped. The rational way to address the issue is through congress and through comprehensive immigration reform.
Sigh.... wrong again. The reason border apprehensions dropped is we stopped looking and stopping them. Obama instituted a frisk and release program in 2009. And interior enforcement was stopped altogether. Bush was also guilty of this as well.
And Obama was lying when he said he deported more illegals than anyone.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html
But the portrait of a steadily increasing number of deportations rests on statistics that conceal almost as much as they d
isclose. A closer examination shows that immigrants living illegally in most of the continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to office, according to immigration data.
The vast majority of those border crossers would not have been treated as formal deportations under most previous administrations. If all removals were tallied, the total sent back to Mexico each year would have been far higher under those previous administrations than it is now.
Expulsions of people who are settled and working in the United States have fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are down more than 40% since 2009.
The shift in who gets tallied helped the administration look tough in its early years but now may be backfiring politically. Immigration advocates plan protests across the country this week around what they say will be the 2 millionth deportation under Obama — a mark expected to be hit in the next few days. And Democratic strategists fret about a decline in Latino voter turnout for this fall's election.
Until recent years, most people caught illegally crossing the southern border were simply bused back into Mexico in what officials called "voluntary returns," but which critics derisively termed "catch and release." Those removals, which during the 1990s reached more 1 million a year, were not counted in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation statistics.
On the other side of the ledger, the number of people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's deportation statistics.
The vast majority of those border crossers would not have been treated as formal deportations under most previous administrations. If all removals were tallied, the total sent back to Mexico each year would have been far higher under those previous administrations than it is now.
The shift in who gets tallied helped the administration look tough in its early years but now may be backfiring politically. Immigration advocates plan protests across the country this week around what they say will be the 2 millionth deportation under Obama — a mark expected to be hit in the next few days. And Democratic strategists fret about a decline in Latino voter turnout for this fall's election.
Until recent years, most people caught illegally crossing the southern border were simply bused back into Mexico in what officials called "voluntary returns," but which critics derisively termed "catch and release." Those removals, which during the 1990s reached more 1 million a year, were not counted in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation statistics.