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Originally Posted by wow
First of all, Mexicans only make up about 30% of illegals, all Latinos make up about 40%. Immigrants account for one in seven workers in the US and half the growth of the workforce since 1990. As the number of foreign born workers has increased from 13 million to 21 million over the past decade, people from Mexico and Central America accounted for about 40 percent of the increase. Increased immigration explains low wage growth in US
Not even half of the problem has been addressed! |
You've got your figures wrong. Current estimates from the center of immigration studies put the estimate for the percentage of illegal Mexicans in this country at between 60 and 70 percent. 10 percent of the entire Mexican population is inside the US illegally.