Illegal immigration into California drops as border crossings shift to Texas

Sacramento Bee ^ | September 20, 2017 | BY PHILLIP REESE

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Undocumented immigrants are shunning California in favor of Texas, with the Lone Star State’s undocumented population growing nearly five times as fast as California’s, new federal data show.

About 2.9 million undocumented immigrants lived in California during 2014, according to new estimates from the Department of Homeland Security.

The undocumented population in California grew steadily from 2000 to 2008, dropped sharply during the 2007 recession, rose again and remained essentially flat from 2011 to 2014.

Overall, California’s unauthorized immigrant population grew by 16 percent from 2000 through 2014.

The undocumented population in Texas, by comparison, grew by 75 percent from 2000 through 2014. Texas was home to about 1.9 million undocumented residents in 2014.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Rockitz]

Some rare good news for California...

[vette6387]

You wouldn’t know it by the traffic on our freeways

[billyboy15]

Stupid, meaningless article.

What is important is what is happening now. It is not important what happened from 2000 to 2014. Since Donald Trump has become our president illegal immigration is down almost 70%.

[Boomer]

What happened? Is there a rope shortage in Texas?

[Lurkinanloomin]

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Just $877.00 dollars and cents to 95.00%

[bgill]

Since the feds know the number living here, they should have no problem rounding them up and deporting them.

[Windflier]

California gives illegal aliens the sun moon and stars, treating them better than their own citizens, yet we’re to believe they’d rather go to Texas, where we push back against them in every way we can?

The SacBee is full of it, as usual.

[WatchungEagle]

“The undocumented population in Texas, by comparison, grew by 75 percent from 2000 through 2014.”

Thanks, GOP.