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The findings run counter to public perception, Roberts said. At the Cato presentation, Roberts noted a CNN/ORC 2015 survey that said the majority of Americans, 69 percent, believed illegal immigration had increased in the past few years.
“Think about that. That's amazing. That is a very untold part of what is happened at the border over the last decade,” Roberts said in the interview. The percent change in migrants giving up and going home after being caught "is incredible. That is a sea change in behavior in Mexican nationals who are trying to illegally enter."