The Immigration Crisis #
October 13th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
In case you hadn’t already assumed so, evidence suggests that the financial crisis has indeed caused some illegal immigrants to leave the United States.
In March this year an estimated 11.9m people were thought to be living in America without papers, down from 12.4m in 2007, according to the Pew Hispanic Centre. Various factors are at play, including rising unemployment and stricter policing in America, and better economic conditions in home countries, especially Mexico, origin of nearly 60% of America’s immigrants.