When it comes to people in the country without proper documentation, the majority of them came to the United States legally — but then didn’t leave.
But as for the ones at the borders, they won’t try to climb the fence. They have found out that isn’t a good idea.
There are an estimated 3 million illegal entries into the United States each year: between South and North America, most migrants are smuggled in trucks across the border, though many have been noted where travel is also done by foot, rail, air or even through dedicated tunnels. None of which the wall in the middle of no where has anything to do with other than force them to pay smugglers to do the work.
It is estimated that just under one third of all immigrants in the United States of America are there illegally, with about 80 per cent of the illegal immigrant population in the country originating in South America (as well as Mexico). Of all illegal immigrants in the United States, an estimated as much as 40 per cent entered the country on a legal visa and then overstayed, and the remainder entered the country clandestinely.
When you consider there are an estimated 11 million illegals in the country on the average, then as much as 4.4 million came in here legally, at one point. That leaves 6.6 million that got in here illegally. In Texas alone, last year, there were just under 2 million illegal entries alone.
The smugglers prefer to work like the cartels. There are only a dozen-or-so official “ports of entry” along the border line. They are highly regulated and policed, but smugglers much prefer to exploit their predictability and rationality than to scatter resources across open expanses of desert and river. Traffickers have carefully studied how security operates in each checkpoint, which means they can observe and instantly respond to weaknesses, such as when inspections are relaxed in order to speed up the through-flow of traffic, or when a corrupt inspection officer with a willing blind eye comes on duty. Of course, it’s likely that not all shipments will get through the checkpoints on any given day, but such losses are factored into calculations, and it’s still better than risking people and product in an unpredictable wilderness. And a vast majority of foot traffic either will die or get caught in the desert. So why try it? This is why California started putting water fountains in their deserts. People were dying.
The wall is nice, but until the states themselves take the bull by the horns and assist the feds, the numbers will be out of hand and the courts have backups far bigger than finished cases each year by a long way.
And there are hot spots. The Rio Grande Valley Sector has seen the lion’s share of the apprehensions in the Trump era — making up some 45 percent of them along the southwestern border in the 2017 fiscal year. And within the sector, Starr County, on the western edge, is the epicenter. If that’s the case, then the miles of desert that do not have any abductions are for show, not policing. If they did a better job, then the aircraft that carry and vehicles that also carry were apprehended, then there wouldn’t need to be a wall other than to mark the border.
And when you consider the congressional mandate for border patrol agents for 2019 is 21,370 to cover just under 2,000 miles of proposed border wall, along with control the entry points requiring 24 hour surveillance and operations, and 48 U.S.–Mexico border crossings, with 330 ports of entry, there can’t be a real fast response to illegal crossings especially when their are cars waiting for them.
Looks good, and establishes a strong stay out appearance, but we’re working against smart people trying to beat us. And they will because there are too many people here trying not to help us within our own.
rwood
You lose credibility by going with the 11 million illegals farce.