Unpopular thought i know ... but there’s no such thing as a closed border, I know what you’re gonna say ... we’ve done it in thus country before ... no really, the Great Depression did it (in fact we had people leaving), as soon as the 50s hit ... Mexicans were flooding down the border with or without government permission.
The brasero program was a compromise due to that reality
Slight correction... immigration didn’t stopped ... legal immigration was severely curtailed
But illegal immigration was in vogue !
Unpopular thought i know ... but there’s no such thing as a closed border, I know what you’re gonna say ... we’ve done it in thus country before ... no really, the Great Depression did it (in fact we had people leaving), as soon as the 50s hit ... Mexicans were flooding down the border with or without government permission.
The brasero program was a compromise due to that reality