(11-29-2018 11:26 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Why would there be an incentive to cross illegally if there are more legal means of entry?

Your proposals include means for those who enter illegally to remain.

Quote:I've provided information before about immigration studies that found that the net immigration numbers increased once it became more and more difficult for people to cross the border.

It's important to get correlation and causation in the proper order. It became necessary to make crossing more difficult as the numbers of those crossing increased. If you put it the other way around, it's nonsensical.

Quote:That making it fairly easy for temporary or seasonal workers to cross the border created circular migration where the migrants still resided in their home country and did not put down roots in the US.

And that still happens, but most of the crossers are not intending to do so temporarily or seasonally. Also, are these studies empirical, or conjectural?

Quote:And I decried the use of tear gas earlier because the administration failed every step of the way to alleviate the situation that led to the use of tear gas. Is it that hard to understand?

So it's not tear gas, per se, it's the quantity that you have a problem with.