Thread: Report: Unauthorized immigration flow drying up

Report: Unauthorized immigration flow drying up
Web Posted: 02/23/2009 7:10 CST

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By Hernán Rozemberg - Express-News

U.S. government statisticians on Monday confirmed what leading demographers already knew — the national unauthorized immigrant population shrunk for the first time this decade after years of non-stop growth.

According to a report released Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, there are an estimated 11.6 million immigrants living in the country illegally as of last month — slightly down from 11.8 million a year earlier.

The department acknowledged in the report that its findings were consistent with those of Jeffrey Passel, the country’s leading immigration demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. Passel last year put the unauthorized immigrant population at 11.9 million, down from an all-time high of 12.4 million in 2007.

While the report didn’t provide an explanation for the decrease in unauthorized immigrants, immigration experts have associated the decline with the current economic downturn, arguing that a dearth of jobs is forcing some migrants to go home and keeping others from coming here.

Still, the reversal wasn’t lost on the government authors, who noted the decrease put a stop to what had been an unprecedented increase in unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Over the last decade, their numbers grew by 3.1 million, or 37 percent.

“The 2008 estimate marks the first time since 2005 when DHS began producing annual estimates that there was not a year-to-year increase in unauthorized residents,â€

What a load of blather! How can DHS possibly know how many are here illegally? Did they knock on doors, where residents told them they were illegal, or did they call employers and ask if they were having less illegal employees than last year? Did they ask the anchor babies if mom and dad were illegal? Unless they have some nifty way of determining who is here illegally, this may all just be feel-good rhetoric about the wonderful job they are doing.

vortex said :



"Unless they have some nifty way of determining who is here illegally, this may all just be feel-good rhetoric about the wonderful job they are doing"



I think you are right on vortex , that figure on illegals here today is probably very conservative...

FedUpinFarmersBranch

More propaganda so they can tell us the border is secure even though border patrol tells us the border is out of control and 5,000 to 10,000 illegally cross the border very week. This will make it easier for Obama to ram comprehensive immigration amnesty down our throats and up our asses despite tens of millions of unemployed Americans, health care on the verge of collapse and an insolvent federal government forced to pay billions more for illegal alien health care, welfare, education, food stamps, unemployment insurance and other benefits. I guess this means Obama will try to reduce the deficit on the backs of struggling Americans by cutting medicare, social security and other entitlements for senior citizens, veterans and indigent Americans while continuing to spend billions on illegal immigration as is done in Mexifornia and other states. Too bad for Americans forgotten by a government that cares only about open borders and cheap labor for their corporate, Chamber of Commerce, union, and big labor masters.

According to a report released Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, there are an estimated 11.6 million immigrants living in the country illegally as of last month — slightly down from 11.8 million a year earlier.

That is impossible because we all know the 11.8 million number is not even close to accurate.

Originally Posted by MW

According to a report released Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, there are an estimated 11.6 million immigrants living in the country illegally as of last month — slightly down from 11.8 million a year earlier.

That is impossible because we all know the 11.8 million number is not even close to accurate.

Correct, that is impossible. There's 11 million in California.



Do they think we're stupid? Boy are they in for a surprise.