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Dramatic drop for illegal immigration
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Sep 01, 2010 05:54pm |
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| Author | SCOTT WONG |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 1, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Obama administration is touting an independent report released Wednesday that shows that the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. fell by nearly 65 percent in recent years.
About 300,000 immigrants illegally entered the country each year from March 2007 to March 2009, nearly two-thirds fewer than the 850,000 who annually crossed the border from 2000 to 2005, according to the report by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center.
An estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants were living in the U.S. in 2009, an 8 percent decline from the peak of 12 million in 2007. That represented the first significant decrease in two decades, the report said.
“We’ve seen a reversal in what had been a long-term growth in the unauthorized immigrant population,” Pew demographer Jeffrey Passel, who co-authored the report, told reporters.
The decline corresponded with a period when authorities beefed up border security and jobs dried up amid the economic recession, though researchers could not pinpoint precisely why immigrant numbers fell. |
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