If you read the news, you know that since around the time Biden took office (actually since slightly earlier, but no one likes to talk about that), th

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2024-10-28 18:30:04

If you read the news, you know that since around the time Biden took office (actually since slightly earlier, but no one likes to talk about that), there has been a giant unprecedented flood of people coming illegally across the U.S. border:

But I haven’t seen it in my back yard. Back in the early 2000s, at the crest of the last great wave of illegal immigration, I saw it everywhere — guys standing in line for day labor and hanging out in the park and working on people’s lawns. I met illegal immigrant. But now, nothing. San Francisco is a deep blue sanctuary city in a deep blue state with a Mexican border, and yet I don’t see anything like what I saw 20 years ago.

Part of this, of course, is because illegal immigration was actually a lot higher in the 90s and early 2000s than the apprehension numbers recorded at the time:

Back then, illegal immigrants avoided being caught; now they intentionally turn themselves in, in order to get an asylum hearing. So this spike has actually been smaller than the giant surge of earlier decades.