Jeffrey Passel People Quotations

We've built fences, and we've built more fences, and we've deployed a lot of high-tech equipment, and ... clearly people are still getting in in substantial numbers. It's more expensive, and more people are dying trying to get in, but the efforts there are clearly not stopping the migrants from getting in.

Especially if we look at the Mexicans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education. They're not able to get licensing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited.

The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in.

The border patrol is actually helping to keep people in the United States, rather than out.

This is only people physically coming in, arrivals into the country for the first time.