Increasing Evidence That Recession Has Caused Number of Unauthorized Immigrants in US to Drop

By Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron of the Migration Policy Institute write that “‘In another indication that the recession has affected the size of the unauthorized immigrant population, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now estimates that the number of unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States fell by about 1 million between January 2007 and January 2009. According to a new DHS report, 11.8 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States as of January 2007. By January 2009, that number had fallen to 10.8 million.”
 
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