No. of Recommendations: 2
Illegal Immigration is certainly a serious, complex issue. Links:
Illegal Immigration Gets Less Attention When It Falls, Aug 1, 2023
"Border Patrol encounters at the Southwest border declined by 55% between December 2022 and June 2023... 'More than 7.3 million Venezuelans have left their country, making them the biggest refugee group, ahead of Ukrainians and Syrians who fled their war-torn homelands'... Experts on Latin America say it is a mistake to assume immigration enforcement policies can override the human instinct of individuals living in untenable circumstances to leave their countries and seek a better life."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/0...chart showing Unauthorized immigrant population was about 11.5 million between 2006 and 2018
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/im...New York City public hospitals overwhelmed by increase of migrants, Oct. 2, 2023
"Officials say there were over 200,000 illegal crossings at the southern border last month and a record three million migrants that crossed over the last year. The increase is putting a strain on cities and health care systems."
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/new-yor...Illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border rose in July but were still down from last year, August 18, 2023
"President Joe Biden's administration insisted that its carrot-and-stick approach of expanding legal routes while imposing more punitive measures on those who enter illegally is working. It noted that illegal crossings were still down 27% from July 2022 and were well below the days that preceded the new immigrations rules."
https://apnews.com/article/biden-border-crossings-...What's happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts, November 9, 2021
"The Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986."
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/09... 