Enforcement Works: Fewer Illegal Immigrants Enter United States in Fiscal 2007

Posted By: Carolyn Hileman* on December 30, 2007

LOS ANGELES — U.S. border authorities arrested just under 877,000 illegal crossers in fiscal 2007, which ended in September, down 20 percent compared with the year before, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. A drop in apprehensions is often interpreted as a sign that fewer migrants are attempting the trip, the paper said. The growth rate of the U.S. Mexican-born population has dropped by nearly half to 4.2 percent in 2007 from about 8 percent in 2005 and 2006, the paper quoted an analysis of census data by the Pew Hispanic Center. Employment of foreign-born Hispanics increased at a markedly slower pace in the first quarter of 2007 than during the same period in the previous three years, according to the report.

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