[oscars300]

I see that some agribusiness shill got their article published in the National Review.

To claim that the US has been serious about immigration enforcement in the last few decades is akin to railing over how “9/11 was an inside job”.

[Vigilanteman]

In the 1940s, the U.S. faced labor shortages in agriculture stemming from World War II. The government established the bracero program, which allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants to enter the country as seasonal laborers. The result was a 95 percent drop in illegal border crossings. A 1980 Congressional Research Service report concluded that “without question” the program was “instrumental in ending the illegal alien problem of the mid-1940s and 1950s.”

All this ink spilt and not a single mention of the highly sucessful Eisenhower administration enforcement program that brought illegal immigration way down in 1954 and beyond. For more details, Google "Operation Wetback" or even read this leftwing perspective of the program.