Restoring Enforcement of Our Nation's Immigration Laws
By Jessica Vaughan March 2017
Restoring Enforcement of Our Nation's Immigration Laws
U.S. House Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
March 28, 2017
Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan
Center for Immigration Studies
Thank you, Chairman Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Lofgren, for the opportunity to testify on the state of immigration law enforcement and how it might be improved. Obama administration policies left immigration enforcement in a state of collapse. Interior enforcement was systematically dismantled to a fraction of previous years; we experienced a surge of new illegal arrivals at the southwest border seeking to take advantage of catch and release policies and lenient rules for claiming asylum; and the size of the illegal population ticked upward again. The suppression of enforcement has imposed enormous costs on American communities in the form of lost job opportunities and stagnant wages for native workers, higher tax bills to cover increasing outlays for social services and benefits, compromised national security, and public safety threats.
http://cis.org/Testimony/vaughan-Restoring-Enforcement-of-Our-Nations-Immigration-Laws
