This IS NOT record immigration at our border.
During about years 2-5 of the GW Presidential years, our borders were fairly non-existent.
All his prattling about amnesty had caused millions to flood our borders. At the time, Time Magazine ran an article that cited the flow at 3.5 million persons per year.
I never believed that figure, but it was certainly within the realm of possibility that it was between 2.0 and 2.5 million per year.
Recalling back to the late 80s and early 1990s, the decade started out with any illegal that wanted being able to sign on to the 1986 Amnesty. We should have been near zero illegals in 1990.
By the end of the decade, the Census pegged the illegal presence at 9.0 million. That was their final tally after reworking the numbers. Who knows how accurate that was, but that was their claim. That means that the average in the 90s was about 900,000 per year.
2.0 to 2.5 million would not have been totally out of bounds, and our immigration service acknowledged they were seeing massive numbers and were just swamped.
So today’s number are not good, but keeping them in perspective, there’s nothing to panic about.
None the less, I hate the thought of even ten illegals coming over per year, and I want that wall completed “YESTERDAY!”
The crime associated with illegal aliens on both sides of the border today, is unacceptable. I don’t envy Mexico having to deal with them either, but then they let them into their nation.
Still, being frank about it, we can’t stop them at our border either. That’s why we need the wall.
It’s not just the crime illegals commit which they do. Immigrants legal and illegal vote for democrats/socialism.
Back during W’s time, it was estimated that 1 in 8-10 people in the US was illegal. Can’t imagine the number today.