Trump's immigration crackdown
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
How fewer Latin Americans crossing the US border is affecting the economy. Alice Fordham reports from Juarez on the Mexican side of the border on the migrants forced to make Mexico their home while they await the outcome of their asylum cases in the US. Ed Butler speaks to Jessica Bolter from the Migration Policy Institute in Washington DC about the slowing rate of people trying to cross into the US illegally. And Giovanni Peri, economist at the University of California, Davis, discusses the impact tighter immigration policies are having on the US labour market.
(Photo: Children look through the border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on January 31, 2020. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you know, we've had a problem here. |
| 0:02.1 | I knew we were in deep, deep trouble. |
| 0:05.0 | 13 minutes to the moon. Season two, coming soon. |
| 0:12.3 | Hi there. I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're asking with or without a wall, has Donald Trump won in stamping out illegal immigration? |
| 0:23.0 | We've seen a significant decrease in the number of Central American migrants, particularly Central American families, |
| 0:31.6 | coming to the U.S.-Mexico border, a decrease of over 90%. |
| 0:35.8 | Yes, Latin American immigration into the United States seems to be heading |
| 0:39.6 | in reverse these days. So what are the economic implications? If there is a shortage of |
| 0:45.3 | construction workers, which are mainly immigrant, company that do construction, will not be able |
| 0:51.3 | to grow as much and will not be able to create those other jobs affecting American |
| 0:55.6 | workers. The business of migration, there's business daily from the BBC. Ever since the start of the |
| 1:04.4 | Trump presidency in 2016, reducing immigration was a big theme, wasn't it? There was going to be a big |
| 1:10.8 | beautiful wall, we were told, along the US-Mexico border. |
| 1:14.3 | Feasers for migrants from several mainly Muslim countries would be blocked. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, not all of this has come to pass, of course, some has. |
| 1:21.9 | But this year, President Trump has been able to make one enormous boast. |
| 1:26.1 | The number of migrants seeking asylum has dropped massively in the U.S. |
| 1:31.7 | Thanks to our tireless efforts to secure the border, |
| 1:35.6 | we've reduced illegal border crossings for eight straight months in a row. |
| 1:43.9 | Illegal crossings are down 75% since last spring, and we have ended the horrible practice of catch |
| 1:53.1 | and release. |
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