Illegal immigration across the Mexican border declined for a number of months after President Trump took office. But recently it has begun to rise again. The Border Patrol apprehended 40,000 illegals along the border in November, a twelve percent increase from October. The recent level is more than twice what it was in March and April.
Many observers contend that the numbers went down because potential border crossers believed that the president’s strong rhetoric against illegal immigration would bring new effective laws to stop it. As that has not happened yet, the watchers south of the border have become emboldened again.
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