re: Are Illegals still coming in droves over the Mexican Border?

Although the the border with Mexico is the primary route for immigrants from many Latin American countries, immigration from Mexico has dropped significantly in recent years. Lately, more Mexicans immigrants have returned home than moved to the US.

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After four decades of rapid growth, the size of the Mexican immigrant population in the United States has remained stable in recent years. In 2014, more than 11.7 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, accounting for 28 percent of the 42.4 million foreign-born population—by far the largest immigrant origin group in the country.

Between 2006 and 2010, the number of Mexican immigrants increased by 200,000 compared to the more than 2 million who arrived in the five years prior (see Figure 1). Following this trend, in the last decade and a half, the Mexican share among all immigrants dropped from 29.5 percent in 2000 to 27.6 percent in 2014.

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