Immigration expert talks border policies

This expert talked about the huge price the border walls have cost and have not stopped the problem. The solution is immigration reform. - - Donna Poisl

By Erin Inman

If you build it, they will come. And in border enforcement, if you build it higher, they will still come.

That was part of the hard look Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Immigration Studies at UC-San Diego, took at the effectiveness of U.S. border enforcement in a talk at Stanford on Thursday.

Cornelius founded the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program, which studies immigration from three Mexican regions: Jalisco, Oaxaca and the Yucatan.
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