How Trump’s protectionism will cause more illegal immigration

Published January 31, 2017 10:22pm ET



President Trump may not want to hear this, but things in Mexico are not all that bad. Until recently, Mexico’s middle class was growing and poverty rates declining. The surest sign that things are not as dire as alarmists would have us believe is that more Mexicans are actually leaving the United States then coming in.

How’s that for alternative facts?

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