Monday, March 02, 2009

Illegal-immigrant population dips

The state of the economy and increased border security have probably caused most of the drop in the number of illegal immigrants here. DP

By Stephen Dinan

The federal government last week said that after years of increases, the illegal-immigrant population in the U.S. dropped for the first time, between 2007 and 2008 - about the time that both a recession and tougher immigration enforcement began.

In a report, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics said the illegal-immigrant population in January 2008 was 11.6 million - or 200,000 smaller than a year earlier.

DHS demographers didn't hazard a guess as to why the population dropped, and cautioned against reading too much into one year's figures. But the findings seem to confirm projections from both liberal and conservative analysts outside government.
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