A border wall would stop less than half of illegal immigration, report says

cbsaustin ^ | Jan, 4, 2019 | Simon Williams

[bgill]

The report says one-third of recent undocumented immigrants came to the U.S. through the southern border and the rest overstayed a visa. CBS says according to the latest data from the Center for Migration Studies, about 42 percent of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. came legally on work visas and stayed after they expired. Pew Research Center says the undocumented population hit a 12-year low in 2016 and from 2011 to 2016, a little over 500,000 Mexicans illegally entered at the southern border. That’s down from more than 2 million in 2007, CBS reports. CBS says as of September 2017, there are an estimated 700,000 foreigners living in the U.S. on expired visas.

[bgill]

IOW, a wall would stop a third to a half of illegals and free up ICE to go after those who overstayed their visas. Win-win.

[cuban leaf]

Most stolen cars did not have the keys in them. i.e. you might as well just leave the keys in the car.

i.e. premise is stupid.

[onedoug]

NONSENSE!

[lakeman]

Exactly.

[Professional]

Considering how they did the math, I’d think that means the wall might pay for itself every month!

[yldstrk]

How about we try it and then get a real report, not speculation.

[SecAmndmt]

The ones who are actually able to gain a Visa are likely to be less of a welfare and disease risk, than the bunch leaving tons of trash on the cartel routes

[SecAmndmt]

The ones who are actually able to gain a Visa are likely to be less of a welfare and disease risk, than the bunch leaving tons of trash on the cartel routes

[ml/nj]

Gun Towers every 500 feet would stop them all.

ML/NJ

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s true that more than half of illegal aliens are visa overstays.
That’s why we need a fence/barrier/wall AND robust enforcement.

ANY illegal alien that comes in contact with ANY law enforcement is removed post haste.

That’s the way it works in real countries.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Well, right now we aren’t even stopping “less than half” so this would be a great start.

[Candor7]

Bogus report.

The Wall will stop them all. Just like it does in israel on the West Bank.

This is all Alinsky based disinformation.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

So, because police stop less than half the murders, robberies and rapes should communities just tell them to give up?

[dgbrown]

Sounds good, we need the wall and kick the people out overstaying their visas. Thanks for letting us know another area that needs fixing.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

42 percent of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. came legally on work visas and stayed after they expired.

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OK, now that we know who they are and how many of them are here, let’s start kicking their butts out of the USA and send them back to their home country.

[Yo-Yo]

Half is better than none. BUILD THAT WALL!

[oldbill]

The Center for Migration Studies is an amnesty/open borders left-wing organization, just like Pew. Both claim to be non-partisan, but they are staffed with open borders proponents.

Wouldn’t expect much difference from them.

[Vigilanteman]

Even if it was less than half, an undocumented immigrant drawing all the welfare benefits to which they are entitled costs us roughly $50,000 each to keep in this country not including the collateral damage (MS-13 crime, jailbirds and the like). That doesn't take that much of a reduction to pay for the $5.5 BILLION cost of building a wall. Roughly 110,000 thousand or so.

And, yes, the crossovers of MEXICANS from Mexico have actually declined since Trump became POTUS. There are reasons for that including more workplace enforcement and more job opportunities in Mexico.

[afterhoursarmory]

The Border Patrol did not write his report; hence it is a bullshit report.

[Stosh]

OR:

“Almost twice as many illegals will invade the southern border without the wall” report says.

Of course if they’re going to spin the headline, they’ve probably worked on spinning the research as well.