Thursday, January 17, 2019

What's really happening on the border

Kevin Drum

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2 Comments:

At 11:26 PM, Blogger Mark Kaepplein said...

While Mexican's still dominate illegal immigrants, other countries are on the rise.
The most important number is the number of (fake) asylum requests. These are up 1,600% producing a backlog of 900,000 immigration cases. It's a more popular scam now that GoFundMe. A wall will greatly reduce the number of people who can just walk across the border and surrender to border patrol and request asylum. Coyote's will have to work much harder for their $5,000/head service.

Oh, and there are more than twice as many illegals in the US than in the Mother Jones cartoon.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-21/mit-yale-study-doubles-estimates-of-u-s-undocumented-immigrants

 
At 6:21 PM, Blogger Rob Anderson said...

Applying for asylum is a "scam"? That's not a "cartoon." It's a chart based on the numbers according to Drum. You could produce your version of that chart so we could compare the two.

 

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