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Could Cutting Border Enforcement Help Reduce the Deficit?

New Mexico State University's Zuhl Library with Organ Mountains in background.
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New Mexico State University's Zuhl Library with Organ Mountains in background.

The congressional Super-Committee has failed to settle on a bipartisan proposal to cut the nation's deficit by 1.5 trillion dollars. But as Ruxandra Guidi reports for the Fronteras Changing America Desk, some advocates for immigration reform have been calling for cuts to border enforcement.