"The number of unauthorized migrants in the United States has risen to almost 11 million from about four million over the past 20 years, despite a 519% increase in funding and a 221% increase in staffing for border patrol programs."
What an intellectually dishonest argument. First, its irrelevant how much MONEY we are spending the only thing that matters is how many BORDER PATROL AGENTS are actually employed and enforcing the immigration laws. Second, the Border Patrol didn't have enough people 20 years ago. Third, had many BP agents are needed is a function of how many illegal aliens are attempting to enter the country.
For example, If you start out with 10 BP agents in 1985 and increased it to 100 BP in 2005, you've increased the number 1,000% but you still only have 100 BP agents when you need 10,000.
To anyone who's been around this argument is depressingly familiar. It was used by Liberals against the war on crime in the 1960s and 1970s. Y'know - "Lets not hire more policemen or build more jails because we've done that and crime hasn't gone down. We need to attack the root causes of crime." Of course, it wasn't until we actually started putting enough people in jail that crime has come down.
Its rather pathetic when the WSJ adopts liberal talking points to argue for breaking the law and not enforcing it.
A Nation of Widgets: The Wall Street Journal and Open Borders