No. of Recommendations: 2
I'll take the word of what is really happening from the people in Texas and other Border States, not a libertarian think tank.
An anti-immigrant stance has been part of the zeitgeist of southern border states, and the portrait they paint is colored by this. The Cato think tank does thorough objective reserch before they issue a report. I'll take that any day as my source for facts I know I can trust.
You also have to keep in mind that the numbers of attempted crossings is seriously inflated. The people who are turned back have fled lives of danger and poverty for themselves and families, and are hoping to find safety and income in the U.S. A great many, when the are turned back at the border, simply try again'and again and again and again'to get across. And each re-attempt is counted by border officials as yet another new illegal migrant trying to get into the US.
What's needed is not a still-stricter system for keeping people out. Our immigration system is broken. That is frustratingly and frighteningly clear. And it has to be fixed so that it is both workable and humane. The multiple elements that comprise it have to be addressed. It will take a collaborative (not pointlessly antagonistic) effort of both parties that ignores emotional and biased rhetoric, sets a realistic goal for how long it should take to reconstruct, and ensure adequate funds to implemeneting it effectively.
