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Border apprehensions of illegal immigrants are substantially down in the first few months of the Trump administration. In fact, the border apprehension figure for the month of March is only 16,600, the lowest monthly figure since 2000. Apprehensions are an important proxy metric for the inflow of illegal immigrants. Many are giving credit to the Trump administration for this rapid and seemingly historical collapse in illegal immigration.

There was another historical decline in border apprehensions that was even quicker, more dramatic, and far cheaper than the decline in border apprehensions that began in 2006 and has trended downward to the Trump administration. It occurred in the 1950s when the government streamlined the Bracero guest worker visa program and allowed more legal migration. These two periods of time lasted about the same number of years and provide an easy comparison between two means of diminishing illegal immigration: by making it legal or doubling down on enforcement.

The border patrol apprehended virtually the same number of illegal immigrants in 1954, when the deregulated Bracero program began operation, as in the year 2006. The deregulated Bracero program lasted from 1954 to about 1965 and the 2006 decline has lasted until today. Apprehensions fellafter both of those but they fell further and much more rapidly in the 1950s (Figure 1). Apprehensions declined by 93 percent from 1954 to 1956 but only by 34 percent from 2006 to 2008. Figure 2 shows the same numbers indexed to 1 in the first year. Clearly, the Bracero Era witnessed a much more rapid and complete decline in illegal immigrant entries than the crackdown from 2006 to today.

Figure 1 Border Patrol Apprehensions

Sources: USCIS, CBP, and INS.

Figure 2 Border Patrol Apprehensions, Indexed

Sources: USCIS, CBP, and INS.

There are more border patrol agents in the 2006-2017 period than during the Bracero Era. The 2006-2017 period began with 11.4 times as many agents as in the Bracero Era and ended with 13.3 times as many while the decline in apprehensions was slower and less complete (Figure 3). From the beginnings of the two periods, the number of border patrol agents climbed by 38 percent in the Bracero Era and by 61 percent in the 2006-2017 period. The indexed number of border patrol agents shows that the agency grew more under the 2006-2017 period (Figure 4).

Figure 3 Border Patrol Officers

Sources: USCIS, CBP, and INS.

Figure 4 Border Patrol Officers, Indexed

Sources: USCIS, CBP, and INS.

These two periods are not perfectly comparable. The decline in border apprehensions since 2006 was aided by the housing market collapse, the Great Recession, the 61 percent increase in the number of border patrol agents, the relative demographic decline in Mexico, numerous state-level laws immigration enforcement laws, Secure Communities, and the increase in interior deportations under Presidents Bush and Obama. The Bracero Era collapse in illegal immigration occurred during an expanding domestic economy, a 38 percent increase in the number of border patrol agents, accelerating Mexican fertility, and a fiercely named but relatively moderate interior immigration enforcement scheme that also legalized many illegal workers. Although imperfectly comparable, many natural, political, and macroeconomic factors conspired to lower illegal immigration since 2006 while most of those factors pushed in the opposite direction during the Bracero Eraproviding further evidence that Bracero was more effective than enforcement-only.

The Bracero Eras immigration enforcement policy was called Operation Wetback, a nasty immigration enforcement operation begun in 1954 that removed almost two million illegal Mexican migrants. While brutal and unnecessary, many of the migrants rounded up under Operation Wetback were legalized on the spot, a process derogatorily referred to as drying out illegal migrant workers, and given a Bracero work visa. The number of migrants dried out is not well recorded but 96,239 were processed thusly in 1950. The Department of Labor actually preferred legalized illegal migrants over newly-admitted Braceros. Other apprehended illegal immigrants were made to walk around the statutebasically taking a single step into Mexico and then returning under the watchful eye of a border patrol agent who then handed him a work visa and drove him back to his farm. The government did not tolerate illegal immigration but they made it simple for migrants to get a guest worker visa and used the border patrol to funnel the migrants into the legal system. Many border patrol agents and other officials testified to what a success Bracero was in reducing illegal immigration.

The main goal of modern immigration policy is to end illegal immigration. The government should choose the cheapest way to accomplish that taskwhich is by expanding guest worker visas. Border patrol agents and walls are expensive, they decrease economic growth, and have never completely stopped illegal immigration. Guest worker visas are cheap, they increase economic growth, and they reduced illegal immigration far more rapidly and effectively than the modern enforcement-only method. If it was easier for would-be illegal immigrants to instead earn a legal work visa similar to Bracero then almost all future and current illegal immigrants could be funneled into the legal market without increased enforcement. This was the policy followed in the Bracero Era and it worked quicker, more efficiently, more completely, and more cheaply than the modern enforcement-only approach.

If the Trump administration really wants to end illegal immigration then they should copy Eisenhowers policy of enforcement and liberalization toward guest worker visas rather than Obamas enforcement-only approach.

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Irwin Gomez-Colon, a 31-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras, is facing second-degree murder charges after he allegedly raped, strangled, and stabbed Nancy Yahaira Gonzalez Rodriguez to death, according to WWL-TV.

Before 2015, Gomez-Colon was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in Texas for being in the U.S. illegally. However, Gomez-Colons case was dismissed.

Then, in April 2015, Gomez-Colon was arrested by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and charged with allegedly kidnapping, raping, and strangling a woman. The charges against Gomez-Colon, though, were later dropped because of inconsistencies in the statements by the alleged victim, according to the district attorney.

In that case, Gomez-Colon was allegedly friends with the victim when he entered her home. After speaking for about 30 minutes, Gomez-Colon said he was going to use the bathroom, but when he came back, he had a knife and forced the victim into a bedroom where he allegedly raped and strangled her.

Now, Gomez-Colon is accused of murdering Gonzalez Rodriguez, whom police say he raped, strangled, and stabbed more than 20 times. When the victim was found, her 4-year-old son was sitting next to her crying.

Under ICEs newest enforcement policies in accordance with Trump administrations crackdown, the agency places a detainer on any illegal immigrant who is arrested by authorities. The detainer alerts local and state police that the arrested suspect is an illegal immigrant and must be turned over to ICE before being released from custody.

But, in 2015, under the Obama administrations lax enforcement of immigration, ICE only placed detainers on illegal immigrants who were convicted of a crime. This, according to ICE, is why there was no alert to the NOPD back in 2015 that Gomez-Colon was an illegal immigrant when he was arrested and charged for the rape and strangulation of his alleged previous victim.

ICE does have a detainer on Gomez-Colon now. If for any reason the illegal immigrant is let out of New Orleans officials custody, he will be handed over to ICE for deportation.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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BY: Sam Dorman April 30, 2017 11:50 am

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) responded on Sunday to President Donald Trump's recent comments about illegal immigration, describing them as "racist," "dog whistling," and designed to instill fear in his constituents by mentioning Latinos.

MSNBC's "AM Joy" played a clip of Trump decrying a "surge" in illegal immigration, saying despite voters' concerns, the federal government didn't enforce immigration laws.

"Year after year, you pleaded for Washington to enforce our laws, as illegal immigration surged, refugees flooded in and lax vetting threatened your family's safety and security," Trump said at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

"That is absolutely racist. That's dog whistling," Waters told host Joy Reid, before arguing that Trump used Latinos to"create fear in his constituency."

Waters further described Trump's comments as "absolutely divisive" and said "no leader, no president should be saying and doing the kinds of things he's doing."

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The May Day protest by illegal aliens goes back to 2006 when 1.5 million people took to the streets across the country to demand immigration reform, left-wing magazine The Nation reported on Friday.

Now, protesters arent asking for a pathway to citizenship.

Today, no one, not even immigrants rights advocates, is calling for immigration reform anymore, Nation contributor Julianne Hing wrote. Immigrants and their allies are now defending civil rights like due process and values like democracy and inclusiveness.

The policy agenda is no longer about winning citizenship or even legal status for the nations 11 million undocumented immigrants, the article said. Its about defending families from separation.

This years march will also include other protesters opposed to President Trumps rule-of-law policies on immigration.

With the Trump administration intensifying attacks on Native Americans, immigrants, refugees, trans individuals, Muslims, women, people of color in general, and the poor, a coalition led by immigrants and workers is aiming to mark this years May Day with the biggest workers strike in over a decade, The Nation article said.

One thing Ive been struck by since the election is everyone is ready to see how these different movements intersect, Jack Darin, director of the Illinois chapter of the Sierra Club said in the article, and he cited the Womens March shortly after Trumps inauguration as the prototype for their protest. Our members see how our struggles and our goals intersect with these other constituencies.

It showed a lot of people at a moment when we really needed to see it that we were all in this together and combined, we really do represent the majority, Darin said.

As immigrants our livelihoods, our futures, our familiestheyre all in danger, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, the director of communications at Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), said in The Nation article. May Day presents an opportunity for us to not silence ourselves and to remain vigilant.

Organizers behind the Day Without Immigrants protest in February are calling again for people to not report to work onMonday.

Activists in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Newark, New Jersey and dozens of other cities have been calling for a one-day strike, The Nation reportedin an article entitled How to Join the Day Without Immigrants on May Day.

We believe that when the country recognizes it depends on immigrant labor to function we will win permanent protection from deportation for the 11 million undocumented immigrants; the right to travel freely to visit our loved ones abroad, and the right to be treated with dignity and respect, Movimiento Cosechas Maria Fernanda Cabello in a statement included in the article.

Immigrant, African American, LGBTQ, indigenous and women workers along with allies are striking on May 1, the bsolid.org website states.

#may1strike is an invitation from the Food Chain Workers Alliance and SEIU USWW to build a General Strike on International Workers Day. Stand with us to pledge your participation

The website states that people said should not be silent when the government and corporations are escalating immigration raids, violating Native sovereignty, banning Muslims because of their faith, criminalizing black, brown and trans people, and rapidly destroying the environment.

Opposing Trump is not enough, the website states. We must stop him.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary When other countries welcomed refugees with open arms, Hungary decided it was time to eradicate illegal immigration at any cost.

The country succeeded, but that successdamaged relations with the European Union in the process.

Hungarys second border fence has just been completed in the southern town of Asotthalom. The 96-mile long, 14 ft. tall double-line of defense doesnt look too intimidating from a distance. Go a little closer and youll notice several layers of razor-wire capable of delivering electric shocks, cameras, heat sensors and loud speakers ready to tell migrants theyre about to break Hungarian law if they as much as touch the fence.

Add a few hundred military officers and border hunters and its virtually impossible to break.

Close to every police officer in the country is part of a rotation to make sure the grounds are covered at all times.Temporary military bases have been set up by the border to house them while they do their rotation.

More than 1,000volunteers will receive generous salary and benefit packages when they deploy as border hunters after extensive training. The area surrounding the fence is closed off for the public. Visitors need to apply for access in advance andphotos of guards and the Serbian side are strictly prohibited for security purposes.

If a migrant is lucky enough to make it across, local guards patrol the surrounding area around the clock. The ones who are caught are arrested and dropped off on the Serbian side. They dont even get a chance to apply for asylum unless they do so at a transit zone where they are held in housing containers while their cases get processed.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban wantsto make it impossible for uninvited guests to make it across the border, no matter the numbers they arrive in, and it appears as though he has succeeded.

They dont even try, a local border guard tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. We havent had a Syrian in six months.

Rewind back to September 2015 and theresa completely different picture. Thousands of migrants streamed across the border every day as they made their way north to Austria, Germany and Scandinavia.

It was an invasion, Laszlo Toroczkai, the mayor of Asotthalom, told TheDCNF. Illegal immigration is a crime in a normal country. Its not a normal thing to break into a country.

Toroczkaidecided to start a war on illegal immigration. He wanted a fence, and the government agreed.

The real public mood was: hang on this is not good, you should do something, Zoltan Kovacs, a spokesman for the Hungarian government, told TheDCNF. You should at least have the ability to handle whats going on.

While Hungary is far from the final destination for most migrants, its location along the so-called Balkan route made it a natural pit stop for hundreds of thousands of people pursuing a life in western Europe.

By the mid-year it was well beyond 100,000 people who care across us, Kovacs said. In the beginning of September there were days when 10,000 came.

The Orban administration looked at a number of measures beforedeciding on the fence.

The results were staggering. The influxwent down from 6,353 one day to 870 the next.Illegal border crossings were steadily below 40 per day throughout the rest of the month.

Illegal border crossings in Hungary in October, 2015. (Hungarian Police/The Daily Caller News Foundation)

It was not unknown what the most effective way to handle illegal border crossings is. Like it or not, and thats the point we always make, there is no more effective way [to stop] illegal border crossings than building a physical barrier, Kovacs told TheDCNF. You might not like it, its not a nice thing, but the only way to stop illegal border crossings is [to] first build a fence, man it, equip it, and also, in parallel, build up your capabilities in terms of legal confines, legal circumstances to be able to handle what is coming.

Kovacs describes the fence as an act of solidarity toward the rest of the EU. By stopping migrants from entering the country, Hungary argues it keeps immigrants out of the entire 28-nation bloc. The government expected other countries to offer assistance, but the help never came.

Instead weve received only political barrage and charges that we are inhumane and stuff like that, Kovacs said.

The measures have cost around 700 million euros ($763 million), according to Kovacs rough estimates. He believes the bill would have been a lot more if the country didnt take action, as the costs of hosting and deporting migrants quickly add up.

The real price it had to pay was, instead, of a diplomatic nature.

Just before the fence went up in 2015, EU voted in favor of imposing migrant quotas for each member. The idea was to ease the pressure on the frontline states particularly Greece and Italy. Hungary was slated to host 1,294 migrants as part of deal, but the government refused. It instead joined Slovakia to take legal action against the EU.

We would like to retain the elements of sovereignty, which are there by law, and we are against a stealth way of taking away elements of your sovereignty, Kovacs said.

Hungary argues the four freedoms of the EU project the free movement of goods, capital, services and people can only be ensured if the outer borders are protected.

You can not defend the achievements of Schengen from within. It has be done at the borders, Kovacs said.

While the international reaction to Orbans immigration policies has been anything but good, the people of Hungary have shown great support.

Orbanannounced a referendum on the quotas in February 2016, saying he would openly campaign for a no vote. The referendum had no legal implications for the EU, but a successful result for the Orban administration would still send a strong message to liberal allies.

Hungarians almost unanimously backed Orban, with 98.4 percent voting no. The voter turnout of just above 44 percent made the results invalid, but the crushing support for Orbans agenda solidified Hungarys image as a rebel within the EU.

Its common sense, Kovacs said of the results. Many say that what we have [in Hungary] is something like xenophobia, but its certainly not true.

While the government was unable to use the results for legislative action, it continued to impose immigration measures.

The Hungarian parliament passed legislation in March to put all asylum seekers in container housingalong the border, to await legal processing. The move caused outcry among international aidorganizations, with Amnesty International calling it aflagrant violation of international law.

Rounding up all men, women and children seeking asylum and detaining them months on end in container camps is a new low in Hungarys race to the bottom on asylum seekers and refugees,Gauri van Gulik, Amnestys deputy director for Europe, said in a statement.

The government, on the other hand,calls the detention label misleading since the asylum seekers have the option to leave and return to their home countries at any point.

Its misleading, its not detention, most definitely not in respect to the penalty element of it, Kovacs said.

A number of countries are allegedly prepared to issue an ultimatum for Hungary and Poland this fallto either accept more refugees or leave the union.

The feud with the EU has escalated in other areas as well. EU has threatened to file a lawsuit against the country after it moved to regulate foreign-funded universities particularly one established by Hungarian billionaire George Soros.

Despite the tense situation, the Orban administration remains positive toward the European projects original purpose.

We believe that thedestination that the founding fathers have given to the European Union at that time was good, Kovacs said. Now, when you bump into problems and a crisis, you should go back to the founding fathers. Thats what the U.S. usually does and it works.

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