Back in the 1950s when I was growing up in NM chile and other types of farmers along the Rio Grande valley in Southern NM used to hire illegal aliens to cultivate and harvest their crops. The illegals were hard workers and cheap. The Mexican border was of course nearby, right across the Rio Grande, and the wetbacks or wets as locals called back them did literally swim and wade cross it to work. They took their wages back home to support their families. They did not commit much crime. It was a peaceful situation and beneficial to all parties.
Today the situation is vastly different. Drug cartels, human trafficking, terrorists, M13 and other gangs as well as petty criminals who cross the border to steal in one way or another then flee back to Mexico constitute a huge proportion of the flow.
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