Looking Ahead at the Impact of Northern Triangle Illegal Aliens on the U.S.
By David North on May 21, 2021
My colleagues have been writing extensively about the surge of illegal aliens from the Northern Triangle and elsewhere at the southern border.
What happens to U.S. systems as aliens are caught and released to other parts of the U.S.?
As I see it, this is a long process in which there are four phases, with each more harmful than the prior one, as outlined below.
Phase Activity Financial and Labor Market
Impacts on the U.S.
1 Travel through
Mexico Self-funded, little impact on U.S.
2 Crossing U.S. borders,
staying in a U.S. facility Period is brief, but expensive to
U.S. taxpayers
3 First year in the U.S. Aliens are sponging off their U.S.
relatives and food banks, and/or
are working illegally, further
depressing the lower end of labor
markets
4 Second and
subsequent years Most aliens are supported, as above;
some asylum applicants start working
legally and many aliens start getting
various U.S. benefits; very few are deported
So far, most of the discussion of this process understandably deals with Phases 1 and 2, the travel through Mexico (sometimes disrupted by the Mexican government and with the aliens often being preyed upon by the Mexican cartels), the actual process of crossing the U.S., border, brief stays in Border Patrol facilities, then longer ones in other detention centers, and then the often U.S.-funded bus trip to the interior of the U.S.
https://cis.org/North/Looking-Ahead-Impact-Northern-Triangle-Illegal-Aliens-US
