Illegal immigration flows to America rise again
Apr 10th 2018
by THE DATA TEAM
IT CERTAINLY looked like a “Trump effect.†Within weeks of Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House in January 2017, the number of people caught crossing America’s southern border illegally fell to a 17-year low of 11,127. John Kelly, then secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), attributed the drop to Mr Trump’s executive orders on immigration. Elaine Duke, the department’s deputy secretary, gave credit to better enforcement of immigration laws. Mr Trump hailed it as “a historic and unprecedented achievementâ€.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/04/daily-chart-5
