Despite Tear Gas, Immigration is in Decline

This article puts immigration from Latin America into perspective.  President Trump has made a pet issue stoking racist fears that our Southern border is experiencing invasion.  I am struggling to find an issue that is less further from the truth.  In the past days, protesters of the broken U.S. immigration policy gathered near the San Diego border crossing to protest U.S. failure to enact sensible immigration policy to fix our broken immigration system.  During the protest U.S. Border guards fired tear gas at mother with children in diapers. 

The reality of Latin American immigration is far from the invasion this President and our media attempts to picture. According to Former Commissioner of U.S. INS Doris Meissner, "Amid the noise it is easy to miss the turnaround story of the past decade that “has not at all been grasped by the general public”, says Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalisation Service, now at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, dc. Not only have the migration numbers tumbled and the share of Mexicans among them dwindled. More Mexicans are now returning to Mexico than are coming to the United States illegally.” Full article here: 

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