Publication

US Congress has vastly increased the resources devoted to immigration enforcement in terms of border patrols, fencing, surveillance and spending. Despite these efforts, the American public remains skeptical about the effectiveness of immigration enforcement. This paper argues that the US government has done too little to measure and evaluate its enforcement efforts and has not made public the results of internal analyses. Therefore, it recommends that the government should establish a more robust oversight system to evaluate enforcement performance. This could increase effectiveness and reassure the public about migration control efforts.