Thread: Flow of illegal immigrants slows, Pew Center finds

Typical illegal alien attitude. When things are going great, scavenge, rape, rob, pillage and plunder us to death, but when the ship is sinking, their the first ones to abandon ship.

It just proves that they don't care about this country and don't care about Americans, they just want to make a quick buck and that's it. Now that you scum have bled us dry, are you happy now?

I'm sure they're thrilled.

They broke this country and now they are running, Whatever as long as they arent here.

Originally Posted by wmarincic

They broke this country and now they are running,

I agree, they are like locusts that strip everything from a country then move on. After we work hard and rebuild the USA they will want to come back and strip it clean again.

Illegal immigrant population down
New estimates lower than last year
Stephen Dinan (Contact)
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Illegal immigration appears to have fallen last year, marking the first drop in years and coinciding with Congress' failure to pass a legalization bill and the Bush administration's stepped up raids and enforcement.

In a study released Thursday, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates the illegal immigrant population fell by 500,000 from 12.4 million in March 2007 to 11.9 million this year.

The study's authors caution that the finding is "inconclusive" because of the margin of error of the estimates, though the findings mirror those of the Center for Immigration Studies, which also estimated a drop in illegal immigration.

The Pew study says there could be many reasons for the drop: a slowdown in U.S. economic growth that has dried up opportunities for illegal workers, economic growth in Latin American countries that has kept some workers at home, and heightened enforcement in the U.S.

Illegal immigration from Mexico, which accounts for well more than half of the U.S. illegal immigrant population, appears to have stalled, while illegal immigration from the rest of Latin America appears to have declined substantially.

"This recent decline is borne out by other Bureau of Labor Statistics data, cited in a recent annual Pew Hispanic Center report, indicating that the number of foreign-born South Americans in the U.S. workforce declined in the first quarter of 2008 compared with 2007," the Pew study said.

According to Pew's estimates, the illegal immigrant population was 8.4 million in March 2000, 9.4 million in 2001, 9.2 million in 2002, 9.8 million in 2003, 10.2 million in 2004, 11.1 million in 2005, 11.5 million in 2006 and peaked at 12.4 million in 2007 before dropping to 11.9 million.

In another study released Thursday, Pew researches said the income of non-citizen immigrant households dropped 7.3 percent from 2006 to 2007, particularly among Hispanic immigrants.

Pressured by President Bush, Senate Republican and Democratic leaders tried last year to pass a bill legalizing most illegal immigrants and restructuring the legal immigrant system. But after a huge outcry from voters, including so many phone calls the Senate's phone system was overloaded, the bill was defeated by a bipartisan filibuster.

Without a legalization bill, the Bush administration announced it would instead step up enforcement - and the Department of Homeland Security says that appears to have worked. The new measures include more workplace raids, construction of fencing and vehicle barriers along part of the U.S.-Mexico border and detaining more illegal immigrants rather than releasing them.

Also, many states have enacted their own laws to go after illegal immigrants, including several states that now require businesses to check their hires against a federal work-eligibility database. Some states and localities, such as Prince William County in the Washington metropolitan region, also have asked local police to enforce immigration laws.

But stepped up enforcement has spawned a backlash, both among Hispanic rights groups and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Last week Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, both Democrats, announced a bill to curb what they said are abuses by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The bill would require ICE to notify welfare agencies before conducting a workplace raid and would set new standards for treatment of those caught in raids.
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Study: No growth in illegal immigrant numbers

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Study: No growth in illegal immigrant numbers

By Emily Bazar, USA TODAY

The illegal immigrant population has stopped growing, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

An analysis of Census data by Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at the non-partisan research organization, finds there are 11.9 million illegal immigrants in the USA this year. The number had risen for much of the decade from 8.4 million in 2000 to a peak of 12.4 million last year.

Passel cautions that his figures are estimates based on a limited sample but says the long-term trend is clear: Fewer illegal immigrants are entering the country. "We've measured a significant slowdown," he says.

From 2000 to 2005, the report says, an average of 800,000 illegal immigrants entered the USA each year. Since then, an average of 500,000 has arrived annually.

"Each year seems to be less," he says. "If we look at the most recent one to two years, there's no indications of growth."

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The number of illegal immigrants entering the country each year has dipped below the number of newly arrived legal permanent residents for the first time in a decade, Passel says.

The report doesn't address reasons for the decline in illegal immigration, but Passel and other immigration experts point to toughened enforcement and the country's faltering economy as likely explanations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made workplace raids and other employment-related action a priority and sometimes arrests hundreds of workers at a time, spokeswoman Kelly Nantel says.

Workplace raids not only catch illegal workers but also serve as a warning to people who are considering entering the country, Nantel says. "Immigration enforcement is making a difference," she says.

ICE sent more than 339,000 illegal immigrants home in the fiscal year that ended Tuesday, spokesman Richard Rocha says.

William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank in Washington, warns against giving too much credit to enforcement. He believes fewer illegal immigrants are coming because jobs are disappearing in fields such as construction.

"Illegal immigrants follow the networks of their friends and families," he says. "They hear about jobs drying up, and they decide this isn't the time to come."
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