Univision TV Anchor Says Illegal Border Crossings Declining Because of ���Trump Effect���

As reported by The Washington Times, Jorge Ramos, the popular anchor of American Spanish language Univision Network���s flagship news program Noticiero Univision, said last week in an exchange with CNN���s Anderson Cooper that a significant drop in illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border is attributable to the ���Trump effect.���

Cooper interviewed Ramos in the wake of reports that illegal crossings from Mexico into the United States fell 40 percent in February.

���Let me just say that fear is stronger than any wall. What we are seeing right now is the ���Trump effect,������ said Ramos. ���It���s people calling their relatives and their friends in Latin America and saying, ���Don���t come here. This is not the right moment.��� I think it is positive, really. No one wants illegal immigration, even undocumented immigrants. It is very risky for them. It���s better to do it in a legal way.���

Ramos also took the opportunity to clarify that, in his opinion, there was clearly no effort being made by Mexicans to ���invade��� the United States.

���There is no invasion. No one is invading the United States. Mexicans are not invading the United States. The undocumented population has remained stable at about 11 million for the last decade. So those are the positive things. The negative is that this is the ���Trump effect.��� This is created because of the policies of fear, and xenophobia and cruelty.���

According to The Washington Times, Latinos voted for Donald Trump in greater numbers than they did for Mitt Romney back in 2012; exit poll results revealed that Trump managed to capture 29 percent of the Latino vote last November, compared to the 27 percent who voted for failed candidate Romney.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large