A Little Good News From The Border

by John Hawkins | April 22, 2011 4:34 am

The economy is still soft and the border fence may never be finished, but there’s a silver lining to every cloud[1].

Wild foot chases and dust-swirling car pursuits may be the adrenaline-pumping stuff of recruitment efforts, but agents on the U.S.-Mexico border these days have to deal with a more mundane occupational reality: the boredom of guarding a frontier where illegal crossings have dipped to record low levels.

Porous corridors along the 2,000-mile border do remain, mostly in the Tucson area, requiring constant vigilance. But beefed-up enforcement and the job-killing effects of the great recession have combined to reduce the flood of immigrants in many former hot spots to a trickle.

Apprehensions along the Southwest border overall dropped more than two-thirds from 2000 to 2010, from 1.6 million to 448,000, and almost every region has lonely posts where agents sit for hours staring at the barrier, watching the “fence rust” as some put it.

Wow, it’s almost like improving border security and cutting off the opportunities for illegals to get jobs discouraged them from coming here, just like conservatives have been saying for years.

Endnotes:
  1. there’s a silver lining to every cloud: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-border-boredom-20110421,0,2700894.story

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