What is it about?
This paper demonstrates that the great majority of newly undocumented persons in the United States in recent years have entered the country legally on temporary visas. A border wall will do nothing to address this challenge.
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Why is it important?
The Trump administration has made it a priority to build a 2,000 mile wall spanning the US-Mexico border that will will not accomplish its purported purpose
Perspectives
This paper summarizes the problems with a border wall, but focuses on just one: i.e., it cannot solve the challenge its champions claim it will.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: The 2,000 Mile Wall in Search of a Purpose: Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million, Journal on Migration and Human Security, March 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/233150241700500107.
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