Policies regarding immigrants moving to the United States are very strict making it difficult for people of the less fortunate to come over legally. John Savant wrote an article on how the government …show more content…
Mark Krikorian wrote the article called The Perpetual Border Battle. He talks about how recently illegal immigration is down by more than half of what it was before. Krikorian describes this issue as “simply unnecessary” because he believes this isn 't a big deal like it was in the 80 's. He mentions that “the immigration crisis that has roiled American Politics for decades has faded into history.” Immigration isn 't an issue now, compared to 2005 when many were arrested on the mexican border totaled over 1.2 million. According to Pew Hispanic Center, Department of Homeland Security, and Center for Immigration studies “ in 2007 illegal population heared or exceeded 12 million and declined to roughly 11 million by 2009.” The United States has been persisting in minimizing the number of undocumented immigrants so well that the numbers have dropped significantly in the last