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A new study finds that fencing along the southern border has deterred illegal immigration.

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A Border Patrol agent at the U.S.-Mexican border in Nogales, Ariz., January 2017.

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We have a problem with people crossing the southern border on foot without authorization. But who could have guessed that putting a wall in their way would stop them?

Well, pretty much every immigration restrictionist. But a new study from American Economic Journal: Applied Economics finds that, indeed, border fencing reduces illegal immigration.

Robert VerBruggen

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Robert VerBruggen

Robert VerBruggen is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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