Born N Bled Red
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I've brought it up before but it bears repeating - back in the day, a huge component of the illegal immigration 'problem' was seasonal - men would come in to the states to work the harvest or some kinds of seasonal jobs to send money back to their families, then they would go back. Clinton's immigration reform really turned this into an actual issue by incentivizing people to stay here permanently rather than risk crossing as they would do frequently in the past.
I would argue the meat packing industry recruiting illegal immigrants to bust the unions in the 80s and 90s had far more to do with it. There were signs pointing to Schuyler Nebraska from the border all the way up.