this also coincides with a rapid decline in tourism to the US.
seems like Trump is solving the immigration problem by making it undesirable to be here.
I guess that's one effective way to stop illegal immigration. Make them not even want to bother to come here.
That is the only effective immigration policy.
Works in Australia. If you come here illegally, the policy is to store you on a Papua New Guinea island where people punch the living sh**t out of you when you play up.
In Australian detention centres, Iranian and Afghani men would run riot, rape and pillage causing untold harm and expense knowing we have to protect their rights.
But now, those same idiots get beaten to within an inch of their life by big Papuan guards when they become drunk and abusive.
They only misbehave once.
Number of refugees entering illegally since we put the Papuan offensive line in charge of refugees in 2013.
Zero.
Trump must have figured this out by now. The wall by itself has no chance of success.
Offshore processing and temporary protection visas work.