Especially if we look at the Mexicans, these are people with fairly low levels of formal education. They're not able to get licensing or credentials in the United States because of their status, so the kinds of jobs available to them in the United States are somewhat limited. |
Even moderately high levels of fertility translate into large numbers of births. |
It's been very hard to find any effect from border security. |
Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave. |
Texas is a special case. The number of both legal and illegal immigrants has grown faster in Texas than in other major states. |
The boom in the U.S. economy at the end of 1990s increased flow by 35 percent, but that peak was rather short-lived. |
The border patrol is actually helping to keep people in the United States, rather than out. |
The composition of the population hasn't changed much in the last 25 years. |
The overall picture is that of young, working families coming to the U.S. to participate in the labor market. |
The picture we get is that of young, working families. |
The security has done more to keep people from going back to Mexico than it has to keep them from coming in. |
There was a huge expansion in the jobs that the undocumented did. |
There's about 6.5 million adults who are in families, either couples or couples with children, and there's another 2 million children. The vast majority of this population is families. |
This is only people physically coming in, arrivals into the country for the first time. |
This population is a bunch of families, not a bunch of single guys. |