U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade

A report by Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn for the Pew Research Center finds that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in more than a decade. The decline is due almost entirely to a sharp decrease in the number of Mexicans entering the country without authorization.

But the Mexican border remains a pathway for entry by growing numbers of unauthorized immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Because of them, Central America was the only birth region accounting for more U.S. unauthorized immigrants in 2016 than in 2007.

KJ