Illegal Entries From Mexico Slow To Trickle:

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Daily Human Trafficking and Smuggling Report  

6 July 2011 

The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause: Unheralded changes in Mexico have made staying home more attractive. 

A growing body of evidence suggests a mix of developments — expanding economic and educational opportunities, border crime and shrinking families — are suppressing illegal traffic as much as economic  slowdowns or immigrant crackdowns in the United States. … The decline in illegal immigration, from a country responsible for roughly six of every 10 illegal immigrants in the United States, is stark. 

The Mexican census recently discovered 4 million more people in Mexico than had been projected, which officials attributed to a sharp decline in emigration. U.S. census figures analyzed by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center also show the illegal Mexican population in the United States has shrunk and that fewer than 100,000 illegal border-crossers and visa-violators from Mexico settled in the United States in 2010, down from about 525,000 a year from 2000 to 2004. [HSEC-3.5; Date: 5 July 2011; 

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015518490_mexico06.html