The United States was home to 12.2 million in 2007, according to the most recent Pew Research Center estimates. This decade a decrease in unauthorized immigrants from Mexico, even as the numbers from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras increased. Meanwhile, a growing share of unauthorized immigrants had arrived legally and then overstayed their visas.
More recent data from the federal government show that 2018 saw an uptick in border apprehensions. There were nearly 467,000 apprehensions at the southwest border last year, the most in any calendar year since at least 2012. Still, the number of apprehensions in 2018 remained far below the more than 1 million apprehensions per fiscal year routinely recorded during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border survived a critical vote in the House, as Democrats failed to override his veto. In February 2019, 76,103 illegal without the needed documentation to enter the U.S. either presented themselves at legal ports of entry or were apprehended by Border Patrol between ports of entry.
Most likely the illegals problem will help the president in the next election particularly that the Democrats are in hiding. Just a thought.
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