“BUILD THE WALL AND DEPORT THEM ALL!”
Apparently, if we just stop paying them and many will leave. Many have come for the free and easy life on the public dole. It appears that the Trump Administration is pursuing an “all of the above” strategy to reduce illegal immigration.
Just this week, the Administration reversed a policy that the Clinton Administration put in just before they left - which ordered officials to not count “non-cash” benefits (like food stamps, housing vouchers, medicaid, drug treatment, daycare, etc.) when determining if an immigrant was likely to be (or had become) a public charge. An article that had been posted on Free Republic, reported that in 2016, over 360,000 immigrants were issued green cards, who would not have been, without that policy.
Decades ago (1981) Thomas Sowell looked at the socio-economic performance of different ethnic groups in America. At that time, Mexicans were the highest of the groups studied, in their use of welfare.
They are so overwhelmingly low skill that we are heavily subsidizing the vast majority of those working here even during their supposedly hard-working years.
We do so at least three generations in.
And just about 100% of them are on the healthcare dole!
Our country would have a drop in GDP if they were to all simply leave, including every last agricultural worker—but we would be much, much better off for it!