Professor Mary Hoopes, Fact Checking the “Success” of Trump’s Border Patrol Policies -- Just Security

Professor Mary S. Hoopes's article, Fact Checking the “Success” of Trump’s Border Patrol Policies, is published in Just Security. The article, co-authored with Adam Cox and David Hausman, considers that the large migration trends of the last few years were about something other than United States border policy.

Excerpt from Fact Checking the “Success” of Trump’s Border Patrol Policies

To get a better grasp on the effects of restrictive border policies, we recently studied nine of the most prominent new enforcement actions of the last decade from Obama to Trump to Biden. We found few large, immediate effects on numbers at the border. Simply put, those policies are not the key drivers of migration into the United States.

The complete article may be found at Just Security