David Bier | Cato Institute, 2019 | Article
This paper looks at the relationship between illegal immigration and legal immigration from Central America to the United States. It details the constraints of the current immigration system and explores specific ideas to channel illegal border crossers into the legal immigration system.
David Bier | Cato Institute, 2019 | Article
This article reviews homicide rates in Mexico compared to the rate of arrests of Mexicans crossing illegally into the United States. It demonstrates homicide rates have risen, even while the number of border crossers fell. It proposed that the expansion of legal means to travel have upended the relationship between violence and illegal migration.
Douglas S. Massey | Institute for Labor Economics, 2011 | Article
This paper by American sociologist Douglas Massey analyzes how US policies toward Mexican immigration failed their stated purposes, ultimately provoking more illegal immigration and unregulated employment. From the elimination of the Bracero guest worker program in the 1960s to the border buildup in the 1990s, US policies have only exacerbated the issues that they were meant to address.