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January 16, 2019 08:10
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Updated January 16, 2019 20:16
Most undocumented migrants residing in the United States entered the country legally across its borders, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) published Wednesday.
The study claims that 62% of people residing in the United States illegally crossed the border legally, after obtaining visas, and later did not abandon them.
The other 38% of the undocumented entered the country illegally.
In this sense, the study said that the number of people who crossed borders irregularly was reduced for the seventh consecutive year.
"The arrival on the plane and the expiry of temporary visas were the main form of income for the undocumented population in the seven years covered by this report," said this center for studies on migration, based in New York .
The CMS has reported that while US President Donald Trump "has focused the nation's attention on the border wall" with Mexico, the number of undocumented Mexican citizens in the United States has been reduced between 2016 and 2017 by 400,000 people.
He also insisted that in 2017, for the first time, Mexicans accounted for less than half of the total number of undocumented migrants, whose number exceeds ten and a half million.
The CMS data indicated that the current number of Mexicans in an irregular situation in the United States is 5,290,000, compared to 6,600,000 in 2010.
Since 2010, the total number of undocumented migrants has decreased by 1.3 million, from 11.725.000 to 10.665.000 estimated to reside in the country in 2017.
The study unveiled by the center also highlighted in return the increase in Venezuelan undocumented, from 60,000 in 2013 to 145,000 in 2017.
For countries, the largest community of undocumented migrants behind the Mexican one is Salvadoran (670,000), followed by the Indian (630,000), Guatemalan (545,000), Honduran (380.00) and the Chinese ( 305,000).
The CMS noted that in the country there are 190,000 undocumented immigrants from the Dominican Republic, 175,000 from the Philippines, 165,000 from Korea, 155,000 from Colombia, 145,000 from Venezuela and Brazil, 125,000 from Ecuador and Haiti and 100,000 from Jamaica.
The Center explained that, given the conclusions of the study and the evolution of immigration by the countries of origin, such as the increase of Venezuelans and Indians.
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