The Border Patrol chose today to randomly release numbers for May, and it turns out that.......nothing has changed:
CBP recorded 171,000 crossings in May, down a bit from April. Of those, 118,000 were illegal crossings and 53,000 were asylum requests, mostly scheduled via the CBP One app.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that illegal crossings have been down by about a third since President Biden announced his crackdown on asylum a couple of weeks ago. That would be nice, but since crossings are sometimes seasonal I wouldn't put too much stock in this until we have a few months of numbers.
We have failed to explain to Americans why this wave of immigration is beneficial to the American economy.
In the last CBO report that you pointed to, GDP was expected to increase 0.2% over the decade thanks to the wave. Two days ago, the CBO's latest update was released. Thanks to that surge, the US is projected to reduce its deficits through the decade by a total of $897B.
Do they create downward pressure on wages? Yes, but these jobs aren't desirable for the most part. It's not like these immigrants are taking away white collar jobs or even manufacturing jobs. And the artificially created inelastic labor supply contributed to the rise in produce prices and other low-wage domestic jobs that would otherwise just go unfilled.
If asylum claims were processed within a month and the claimants were housed in holding facilities for that month, claims would drop to near zero. I know things are really shitty but they are shitty for economic reasons or the country is a failed state incapable of providing security. Is Mexico a failed state????
The folks knocking on the doors to get in, give the lie to Make America Great Again. They think America is the greatest and they are right to think that.
"That would be nice" why exactly? Asylum is a treaty-backed human right.