WASHINGTON:
Some 11.5 million foreigners are living in the United States without proper
immigration documents, according to estimates released Friday by the US
Department of Homeland Security.
The
figures, as of January 2011, show little difference from the 11.6 million
figure published in 2010.
"These
results suggest little to no change in the unauthorized immigrant population
from 2010 to 2011," DHS said in a report.
It is
unlikely that the number of these migrants increased after 2007 "given
relatively high US unemployment, improved economic conditions in Mexico, record
low numbers of apprehensions of unauthorized immigrants at US borders, and
greater levels of border enforcement," the report said.
Mexicans
represented 59 percent of all the undocumented migrants, followed by 14 percent
from three Central American nations -- six percent from El Salvador, five
percent from Guatemala and three percent from Honduras.
China, the Philippines, India, South
Korea and Vietnam all accounted for two percent each.
DHS said 31 percent of the unauthorized migrants --
defined as all foreign-born non-citizens who are not legal residents -- entered
the country before 1995, 55 percent entered between 1995 and 2004, and only 14
percent have entered since 2005.
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