{"id":332550,"date":"2010-02-17T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/illegal-immigration-s-decline-lesson-immigration-reform-39582\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:48:38","slug":"illegal-immigration%c2%92s-decline-is-a-lesson-for-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332550","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Immigration\u0092s Decline Is a Lesson for Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.17.10 09:00 AM posted by Jena McNeill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/amnesty.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/amnesty.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security  recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/xlibrary\/assets\/statistics\/publications\/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf\" >report<\/a> on the total population of  illegal immigrants in the U.S. *The  conclusion: the overall illegal immigrant population decreased from 11.6 million  to 10.8 million in 2008, down further from 11.8 million in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>As both the DHS report and an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/illegalimmigration-shiftingtide\" >report by the Center for Immigration Studies  (CIS)<\/a> indicate, this decline in illegal immigrant numbers  within the U.S. coincides  directly with the recent economic downturn and increased enforcement measures to  encourage illegal immigrants to go home in 2005-2008.* *Facing economic  challenges and decreased incentives to stay in the  U.S., illegal immigrants  have seemingly self-deported, indicating that lessening the economic incentives  to illegal immigration presents one avenue for solving  America\u0092s  immigration problem. In fact, according to the same CIS report, the number of  illegal immigrants voluntarily returning home has more than doubled since 2007,  compared to earlier in the decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Administration is likely to say  that the U.S. needs to act  quickly to monopolize on the decreased numbers of illegal immigrants living in  the U.S.* Their solution, however,  would be an amnesty for the 10.8 million illegal immigrants living in the  United  States.* This approach, however, is  costly and simply encourages more folks to come to the  United  States illegally\u0097the entirely wrong  result. The right reform package would be one that that safeguards the southern  border, promotes economic development and good governance in Latin America, enhances legal worker programs, reforms  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and enforces immigration and  workplace laws.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama Administration is right\u0097the time to  act is now. *When employment picks up again, illegal immigration is likely to  begin to increase once more.* Now is the time to develop and implement sound  steps in countering illegal immigration and protecting our nation\u0092s borders\u0097not  developing amnesty proposals which would simply make the problem  worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/17\/illegal-immigration%e2%80%99s-decline-is-a-lesson-for-immigration-reform\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/17\/&#8230;ration-reform\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.17.10 09:00 AM posted by Jena McNeill The Department of Homeland Security recently published a report on the total population of illegal immigrants in the U.S. *The conclusion: the overall illegal immigrant population decreased from 11.6 million to 10.8 million in 2008, down further from 11.8 million in 2007. As both the DHS report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}