Social Policy & Politics Program | Report

A Heck of a Job on Immigration Enforcement

by Jim Kessler and Ben Holzer

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SUMMARY

A report analyzing the government’s own data and finding that the Bush Administration has failed to enforce the immigration laws currently on the books.

This report finds that despite massive increases in the Border Patrol, border apprehensions are declining and laws governing employers are enforced so rarely that they might as well not even exist. Consequently, those illegal immigrants who make it beyond the border area are almost never apprehended.

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