Jonah
Well-Known Member
This is all true, circumstances on immigration have changed over the past ten years, including the raw numbers. Any thoughtful person should be willing to adapt our opinions to changing realities....Immigration has changed as an issue, the ideas, the problems, our culture, our morals have all changed and in my opinion we have gotten much better as a society. I am glad to see when politicians change their minds and evolve as humans. That is one of those things that makes Clinton a good candidate, she is looking to make the country better and even if she has been wrong on some issues or is wrong currently on some issues she is willing to listen, learn, take advice from experts and change her view and mind on issues regardless of party lines...
According to Pew Research, the population of unauthorized immigrants from Mexico peaked in 2007 at 6.9 million right around the time Clinton was making her anti-immigration statements. Since then unauthorized immigration has been dropping and is now at an estimated 5.6 million. Net migration from Mexico has been negative every year since 2008.
https://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/chapter-1-migration-flows-between-the-u-s-and-mexico-have-slowed-and-turned-toward-mexico/#number-of-unauthorized-mexican-immigrants-declines