{"id":387467,"date":"2018-12-02T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T13:40:13","slug":"u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Illegal Immigrant Population Hits Lowest Level in a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/12\/01\/pew-u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 2, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The total number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, the Pew Research Center reported this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007,\u201d Pew said, citing government estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Pew <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2018\/11\/27\/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&amp;utm_campaign=b99ad0051c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_28_06_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-b99ad0051c-400018517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">found<\/a> that there has been a \u201csharp decrease in the number of Mexicans entering the country without authorization,\u201d although around half of illegal immigrants in the U.S. \u2014 5.4 million \u2014 are Mexican. The number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. has declined by 1.5 million since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Central America, on the other hand, is the only region accounting for more U.S. unauthorized immigrants in 2016 than in 2007, Pew said.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2007 and 2016, the number of unauthorized immigrants from Central America increased by 375,000, and the 1.85 million illegal immigrants from Central America in 2016 came chiefly from three countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/12\/01\/pew-u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, December 2, 2018  at  6:24 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/pew-u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/pew-u-s-illegal-immigrant-population-hits-lowest-level-in-a-decade.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartDecember 2, 2018 The total number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, the Pew Research Center reported this week. \u201cThere were 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007,\u201d Pew said, citing government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}