“Study finds sharp drop in number of illegal immigrants”

After searching through several different websites, I came across this article which was addressing one of America’s big issues, illegal immigration. The title of my blog will give you a general over view of this article. In past 20 years, this is the first significant decrease in US. illegal immigration. The Pew Hispanic Center said, the U.S. Latino’s population have dropped to 11.1 million in 2009, which is less than 12 million from year 2007. However, illegal immigration from Mexico has been at a lower rate from past several years. Also, there is a great drop in illegal immigrants from the Caribbean, Central America and South America. California has estimated 3 percent decrease since 2005, but California still has more number of immigrants than Texas or Florida. Research shows that the reason behind the downfall is the recession and the border enforcement. Due to the recession there are not many jobs to offer, and people come to US. in search of a jobs or for opportunity. According to the Obama Administration, the border security has started to work now. The Immigration control advocates said that the reason behind the decline is the tougher enforcement.