As others have said, H1-B has been good for companies, and bad for American workers. The same companies who were found to be colluding to keep wages down.

Europe is stagnant because of regulation, not because of immigration.

I know a 5'3" guy who played in the NBA.

Care to share your stats?

This sounds like more of "I don't like this president, therefore what he's doing is wrong"

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

>Several Senate Republicans Issue Blunt Dismissal Of Bipartisan Border Security Bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

It never had a chance of passing. It wasn't some amazing bill that everyone loved until Trump told them not to. That is a fantasy that fits the narrative.

You can hear it from the horse's mouth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

Why should I care about the number in August 2024? Why are you annualizing the 58k number? I'm referring to the current numbers at the border.

> During Trump's first eight months in office, there have been fewer than 9,000 illegal crossings recorded each month, CBS reported.

249,000 -> 9,000 encounters = flow across the border is "largely eliminated" to any non-pedant.

We have more illegal aliens in the country today than 2007.

2007 -> 2026 = MORE illegal aliens = no headway has been made. It's as simple as that.

Lastly, your link literally confirms what I said:

> The report attributed the shift to combination of the large drop in entries and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures.

It's so refreshing to finally have someone at least attempt to tackle this issue (likely the main issues in the 2016 and 2024 elections). I just wish it was more widespread and less theatrical.

"Largely eliminated". I didn't say "completely eliminated". <9,000 per month can be considered "largely eliminated" when the previous flow was often many hundreds of thousands per month. You can see it plainly on the graph.

Yes of course encounters are not total entries. Do you have a better way of estimating?

The net migration is due to several factors. The result of "largely eliminating" the flow of illegal aliens, along with dutiful removal of those in the interior, has made a big dent. There are other factors, including legal immigration, obviously.

There were 12 million (estimated) illegal aliens here in 2007. There are MORE now. No headway has been made.

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs.

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

Your pdf is a repost of the exact study (Light) cited here as being flawed.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...

That study is yet another that fails to account for the fact that immigration status is not known immediately upon arrest.

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs. [1]

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...