Report
Published May 15, 2006
Updated May 15, 2006
A Heck of a Job on Immigration Enforcement
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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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