WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 11, 2021) – Americans have watched the videos of the migrant caravans comprised of thousands of migrants from all over the world coming to the southern border. Americans have read the numbers - agents apprehended 1,659,206 illegal migrants in FY2021, an all-time record for apprehensions at the southwest border, and tens of thousands of ‘gotaways’ entered the country monthly. But most Americans have never heard the details of how the lack of operational control of the border impacts their fellow taxpaying countrymen, who live and work near the border.
Russell Johnson, a fourth generation cattle rancher who lives and works along eight miles of the border, joins Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, to discuss how illegal immigration effects his business and family and the impact of various policies adopted over the last 15 years. He describes the cost and time required to protect himself, his family and his property from a constant flow of trespassers.
“Private citizens should not have to maintain a national border,” states Johnson.
In the closing commentary, Krikorian comments on the news that the Department of Justice was planning to compensate illegal aliens who were “separated” from their families after they were caught trying to enter the country unlawfully during the Trump administration. Can these aliens, with the help of the ACLU, sue the U.S. government when the administration was merely enforcing laws passed by the U.S. Congress? |
