A couple of immigration notes
From the Houston Chronicle comes two different stories on immigration, illegal or otherwise. The first notes how more and more people are being caught with fraudulent documents:
The number of people caught at the nation’s ports of entry with fraudulent, stolen or purchased documents grew from about 23,500 in 2006 to more than 28,000 in 2008 — an increase of about 19 percent, according to CBP statistics.
The article doesn’t attribute the increase to an increase in illegal immigration, but instead it correlates with increased efforts at catching these imposters. In another story, it seems the amount of money flowing back to Mexico from immigrants, illegal or otherwise, has been falling.
Mexico’s central bank said remittances for April through June fell to $5.6 billion, continuing a trend that has lasted more than a year. The money transfers are off 12 percent during the first six months of 2009, compared with the first half of 2008.
The latest report was no surprise but spelled more gloomy news for Mexico’s economy, which has been hammered by declining oil earnings, a sharp drop in exports and a flu crisis last spring that put a big dent in tourism.
Remittances, or cash transferred by families from abroad, are one of Mexico’s three top sources of foreign income, along with oil and tourism, and help sustain millions of Mexican families.
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Immigration from Mexico has dropped sharply recently because of the state of our nation, so that accounts for part of the drop in “foreign” income to Mexican banks.
There’s probably a few more years of lower economic output in the US, so Mexico would do well to find ways to soften the effect of the lack of US-based income.