Source: The UnPopulist
by Nathan Goodman and Molly Rovinski
“When legal pathways to immigration are closed, migrants don’t stop coming — they turn to smugglers. Smugglers must pay cartels to move people through their territory. The more aggressively the United States restricts legal entry and patrols traditional crossing routes, the more dangerous those crossings become, and the more indispensable smugglers — and the cartels behind them — become. The result is a perverse inversion of the stated goal: the harder Trump and Miller push to seal the border, the more they enrich the organizations they claim to be fighting.” (05/07/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/americas-immigration-prohibitionism