Caribbean Undocumented Population Drops
September 2, 2010
CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D,C., Thurs. Sept. 2, 2010: The number of undocumented immigrants from the Caribbean as those from Latin America has dropped.
That`s according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. Titled `U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade,` the report, released Wednesday, said the number of undocumented migrants in the U.S. from the Caribbean is now at 350,000, down from 22 percent last year.
Overall, the flow of illegal immigrants from Latin America into the United States has plunged, falling from around 850,000 per year early in the last decade to around 300,000 by last year.
The nearly two-thirds decline in numbers of undocumented entering the United States has brought with it the first significant drop in the population of unauthorized US residents in two decades – down from a peak of 12 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2009.
Still despite the recent decline, the population of unauthorized immigrants was nearly a third larger (32 percent) in 2009 than in 2000, when it numbered 8.4 million. The size of this group has tripled since 1990, when it was 3.5 million.
Mexicans are easily the biggest group of unauthorized migrants, making up around 60 percent of all illegal immigrants living in the United States.
However, their numbers peaked in 2007 at seven million, and since then have leveled off, the report found.
Meanwhile, the influx of new undocumented Mexican migrants has slowed significantly in recent years, the report found.
Not counting Florida and Virginia, the unauthorized immigrant population also declined in the area encompassing the rest of the South Atlantic division that extends between Delaware and Georgia.2In addition to the decline in Nevada, three other Mountain states – Arizona, Colorado and Utah – experienced a decrease in their combined unauthorized immigrant population from 2008 to 2009.
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