The decreasing trend also affects the nature of Mexican illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants make up about half of the total 11.7 million immigrants who live in the U.S (Gonzalez-Barrera & Krogstad, 2017), although in recent years, there is apparent drop from 6.9 million in 2007 to 5.8 million in 2014 (Gonzalez-Barrera & Krogstad, 2017). In 2015, although the overall number of apprehensions decreasing to 462,388 in 2015 from 679,996 in 2014, Mexican immigrants still dominate up to 58% of the total apprehended individuals (Zong & Batalova, 2017), and further dropping to 192,969 in 2016 (Gonzalez-Barrera & Krogstad, 2017). The number compared to the number from 2000 has decreased ten-fold (Gonzalez-Barrera & Krogstad, 2017). The number of Mexican that is deported also decreased in 2015 to 242,456 people (Gonzalez-Barrera & Krogstad, 2017).
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By stating that Mexican does not send out their best people, Trump referred to the fact in 2014, as also reiterated by Migration Policy Institute (Zong & Batalova, 2017), that 69% of Mexican immigrants aged above 5 came to the U.S with limited proficiency, higher then all immigrants’ average of 50%, and only 6% over age 25 had a bachelor degree or higher compared to the 29% of all immigrants average, and 30% of native born. As the impact of the low-paying job they get, 28% of Mexican immigrants lived in property and have the lowest household income median compared to all immigrants’ and native-born (Zong & Batalova, 2017). However, there is also misconception construed within the statement. A large percentage of Mexican immigrants led a stable and honest life- although for some it is back-breaking. One-third of them own homes and only 7% convicted as criminals and furthermore, only a fraction of those, only 3%, had been convicted of felonies or serious misdemeanors (Yee, Davis, & Patel,
Although, there is a universal downward trend in every aspect of …show more content…
By stating that Mexican does not send out their best people, Trump referred to the fact in 2014, as also reiterated by Migration Policy Institute (Zong & Batalova, 2017), that 69% of Mexican immigrants aged above 5 came to the U.S with limited proficiency, higher then all immigrants’ average of 50%, and only 6% over age 25 had a bachelor degree or higher compared to the 29% of all immigrants average, and 30% of native born. As the impact of the low-paying job they get, 28% of Mexican immigrants lived in property and have the lowest household income median compared to all immigrants’ and native-born (Zong & Batalova, 2017). However, there is also misconception construed within the statement. A large percentage of Mexican immigrants led a stable and honest life- although for some it is back-breaking. One-third of them own homes and only 7% convicted as criminals and furthermore, only a fraction of those, only 3%, had been convicted of felonies or serious misdemeanors (Yee, Davis, & Patel,