Why is the government so obsessed with illegal Mexican immigration when it has been steadily declining for years now? Illegal immigration from Mexico reached a 17 year low last year due to the American economy being so shitty that even illegals can't find work here. Is the whole Mexico thing meant to distract us from something else?
this is always bullshit and it's a lie they bring out about once a year or so when the invasion going on gets too much public attention
Jackson Perry
It's misleading to focus on Mexicans alone. The US by law is allowed to turn Mexicans back, but must receive Central Americans into the country for processing. Most of these illegal immigrants getting in these days are not Mexican, but Central Americans.
Isaiah Johnson
I wish this was true, but it's fucking not
Nathan Reed
Its bullshit. How can they track illegals that aren't caught and how they track illegals that return to Mexico? It's ridiculous.
Dominic Lewis
I should add: I'm sure there are many Mexicans who claim to be from Central America so they can't be just handed back to Mexico. It's all a scam.
Ryder Foster
>the government knows when people come in illegally >doesn't arrest and deport them huh?
>however, brainlet user still believes these are trustworthy statistics
Blake Jackson
Because drug muels will always try and cross. Theyre not coming for a new life they come because they get a fuck ton of money.
Oliver Walker
There's too many goddamn illegal El Salvadorans here now and its depressing the illegal Mexican's wages
Tyler Perry
>Mexicans
Because it's not Mexicans anymore.
It's mainly El Salvadoreans and Guatemalans. Been that way for like 10 years.
"Mexicans" was true back in the 80s but it's a misnomer now for "people south of the border" who now come from south of Mexico.
David Hernandez
This is bullshit. I live in Alabama and their numbers are increasing literally every day. I've been here since 2005 and the increase is ridiculous. You used to see a few here and there but now they're literally taking over entire towns and are brazen about it. They have a huge 'iglesia' in the next town over from me with about 250 illegals attending on a given Sunday. How they fuck are they ending up in Alabama of all places? How do they even know about Alabama?
Ethan Williams
We use 'Mexicans' as a proxy for brown people. We dont want the Guatamalan either
Colton Cox
Most of the people crossing illegally through Mexico are coming from Central America. Mexicans usually overstay
Logan Roberts
We just want to be with our families Jow Forums what's wrong with that?
Yeah....the article is citing statistics about Mexicans. You're almost certainly seeing El Salvadoreans or Guatemalans. Where I live they are like 90% El Salvadoreans.
Nice people, really.
Carter Martin
>nice people No they aren't. They're fucking rude. I grew up in Chicago around what used to be decent Mexican immigrants and my dad used to do a lot of business with them. There is a huge difference in the types of people that are coming here now. They take over the entire community.
Deportation numbers massively shot up in obama's second term because he ordered the DHS to reclassify catch-and-release as deportation. For reference, catch-and-release refers to the practice in catching someone in the process of crossing the border and ejecting them back on the mexican side without trial. So while these people are never counted in census data as mexican immigrants to the US, they would from that point on be counted as mexicant immigrants from the US (while they should have been counted as net neutral). He intentionally performed this stat manipulation to quell anti-immigration sentiment and undermine the talking points of immigration hardliners while still allowing unfettered illegal immigration.
The unintended result was that the bump in "deportation" numbers caused them to exceed the entry estimate. However, instead of admitting that they fucked up the stats they went ahead with the original plan and now pretend like there was net-negative illegal migration.
Robert Hernandez
Here's a source along with politifact doing their usual manipulation by pretending like obama dindu nuffin.