Category — enforcement

As often touted by yours truly, enforcement works when it comes to illegal immigration:

The illegal migrant population has dropped an estimated 11 percent through May after hitting a peak last August, based on census data used in a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Much of that decline is due to people who self-deported by slipping back across the border.

The drop began well before unemployment went up, which points to the real success story: Washington’s wake-up call last summer to beef up enforcement, from plugging leaks in the border to cracking down on employers who hire illegal workers.

And further proof:

Immigrant remittances to the Bank of Mexico are down after years of rising.

So much for the left-wing scare tactics that claimed we’d have illegal immigrant concentration camps.   It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you actually enforce the law.