Commentary: If Trump's thuggish policies worked, border apprehensions would go down. They haven't
by Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2019
3 minutes
Two nuggets of information from the federal government last week paint a stark portrait of failed government policies toward migration.
Despite President Trump's heavy-handed approach - belligerence, threats, tariffs and mass detentions designed to dissuade would-be immigrants from trying to cross the border and enter the United States - apprehensions exceeded 144,000 people at the U.S.-Mexico border last month.
That's nudging up toward monthly levels reached nearly two decades ago when agents nabbed a record 1.6 million border-crossers in
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