Mexico And Two Kinds Of Immigration

CIS has just released a paper on the link between legal and illegal immigration, how one enables the other. I. E. a legal Hispanic community provides an infrastructure for illegals to move into; a large enough group of illegals will produce an amnesty. The amnestied will send for their families, which will make for a larger legal Hispanic community; this will provide an infrastructure….you see the problem.[Two Sides of the Same Coin |The Connection Between Legal and Illegal Immigration, February 2006]

The paper, by James R. Edwards, includes the tall, skinny, chart, below, which displays in graphic form the preponderance of Mexicans in the latest immigration wave.

Selected Countries of Birth Of Foreign Born Population, By Proportion Legal and Illegal (CIS)