Analysts See Mexico Border with US as More Secure Than It's Been in 40 Years Richard Gonzales - NCPR
go to original August 20, 2015

Jeb Bush has something like an actual plan for what he intends to do in regards to border security and immigration. The six-part plan is somewhat vague, but includes layers, bases, boat ramps, and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. (The Young Turks)

While Donald Trump's recent position paper on immigration dominates headlines, a new study of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. digs into the latest numbers.

The Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute released "An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth." It's based on U.S. Census Bureau data.

Some of the findings may not surprise you. Mexicans represent 6 million of the estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country, making up 56 percent of the total. Another 1.6 million, or 15 percent, come from Central America. Asia (China, India, Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam and Pakistan) accounts for 1.5 million, or 14 percent, of the unauthorized population.

The report finds that this population doubled in the 1990s from 3.5 million to 7 million and it kept growing through the 2000s, peaking at about 12.2 million people in 2007. But illegal immigration has been declining since then. Researchers say there are about 1 million fewer unauthorized residents today than eight years ago, mostly among Mexicans.

"The outflow of unauthorized Mexicans since 2007 appears to be a function of the U.S. economic downturn, tougher U.S. immigration enforcement, especially at the border, a relatively strong Mexican economy during most of this period, and demographic changes resulting in fewer Mexicans entering the labor market," says Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the institute's U.S. Immigration Policy Program.

Read the rest at NCPR

Related: A Myth-Busting Guide to All the Shit Republicans Say About Immigration (VICE News)

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