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By Ildefonso Ortiz. During the immigration crisis of 2014, Mexico, a country known as an illegal immigration corridor used by human and drug smugglers, increased its deportation efforts and ended up surpassing the number of Central Americans that the United States deported during the year.

From January to December, Mexico deported 107,199 Central Americans immigrants by land, while the U.S. only deported 104,688 illegal immigrants during that time period. Of those deported by land from Mexico, 43,456 are from Honduras, 41,731 are from Guatemala, 20,988 are from El Salvador and 1,024 are from Nicaragua, information released by the Guatemalan Migration Office to Mexican news outlets reveals.

In comparison to 2013, Mexico had only deported a little more than 77,000 showing a sharp increase in immigration enforcement for this year when hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America swarmed the Texas border.

According to Mexico’s El Universal, U.S. authorities deported less Guatemalans and Hondurans by plane with the number of deportations decreasing from 88,563 in 2013 to 86,196 this year. (Read more about how Mexico deported more illegals from South America than the US HERE)
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Farmers Worry About Having to Raise Pay for Immigrant Labor

By Timothy P. Carney. Farm lobbies like to complain about a “farm-labor shortage.” “Crops are literally going unpicked!” they shout.

Basic economics tells you that if too few people are responding to your bid for something, maybe you need to bid higher. Raising the price you’re willing to pay for something can increase the supply.

That is, farmers are complaining that they can’t get enough labor at the low wages they want to pay. Their calls for more immigrant labor are calls for lower wages in the U.S.

But here’s a wrinkle — it’s not a new idea, but it’s one the farm lobby doesn’t talk about much: Farmers explicitly rely on undocumented immigrant labor, because it is cheaper than labor from immigrants who don’t fear deportation. (Here, Reihan Salam cites an estimate that after becoming documented, workers’ wages in a short period go up 15 percent). That’s the message of this Associated Press article, at least. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Obama on immigration: ‘Nativist trend’ in parts of the Republican Party

By David Sherfinski. President Obama says his recent executive actions granting millions of illegal immigrants temporary amnesty could spur Republicans to work together with Democrats on the issue, but if they solidify what he called a “nativist trend” in parts of the Republican Party, there probably won’t be much progress.

“If your view is that immigrants are either fundamentally bad to the country or that we actually have the option of deporting 11 million immigrants, regardless of the disruptions, regardless of the cost, and that that is who we are as Americans, I reject that,” Mr. Obama told NPR.

On the other hand, he said, there is potential for working together on the issue, though Republicans have vowed to fight his recently-announced executive actions when the new Congress returns next month.

“So, the question then becomes, by me having taken these actions, does that spur those voices in the Republican Party who I think genuinely believe immigration is good for our country? Does it spur them to work once again with Democrats and my administration to get a reasonable piece of legislation done?” he said.

“Or does it simply solidify what I do think is a nativist trend in parts of the Republican party? And if it’s the latter, then probably we’re not going to get much more progress done, and it’ll be a major debate in the next presidential election,” he continued. (Read more from this story HERE)