"Krikorian’s fear is that after a while, Beltway pols and voters will see the border as “all fixed.” And you know what that means: an excuse to stop enforcing a body of law that blue state and local officials spent years ignoring anyway. His remedy: Mandate that employers use E-Verify."
"WASHINGTON — The number of border apprehensions was down in January — 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020.
"In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000.
"The White House calls it “the Trump effect.”
"With the whole world listening, President Donald Trump’s tough-on-immigration-crime rhetoric had a dramatic effect even before he took the oath of office on Jan. 20.
"People who two years ago might have seen crossing the border illegally as a reasonable risk today are faced with a different reality.
"Mark Krikorian, executive director of the pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies, noted that past Republican presidential candidates, hand-wringers like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, said they’d enforce immigration law. But they only looked tough compared to Democrats like former President Joe Biden.
"It was doubtful these ghosts of GOP past would exert the muscle needed to arrest and deport serious offenders when they spent so much time jawboning about the need for what they called “comprehensive immigration reform.” That term served as an excuse for the enforcement-lite status quo that often failed to deport repeat offenders.
"Consider Trump’s choice to serve as his border czar: Tom Homan, a Trump administration veteran, and serious law-enforcement professional who doesn’t believe in apologizing for doing his job.
"Homan talks about enforcement. And deporting illegal immigrants.
"Homan doesn’t noodle about the “root causes” of illegal immigration, as former Vice President Kamala Harris used to do after Biden put her in charge of the border.
"Methinks a major root cause is the belief that unauthorized migrants won’t face serious punishment for flouting federal law." . . . More here
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