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Illegal migrants in particular have responded to the slump: in the past year or so the stock of unauthorised migrants has stopped rising.
But in 2010, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Centre that counts both authorised and unauthorised migrants, Asians were America's biggest migrant group.
So "The current strategy of border enforcement is keeping more unauthorised migrants in the US than it is keeping out".Tighter controls in Europe are probably creating similar incentives to stay rather than to commute or return.
A critical mass of Republicans in Congress may be swinging behind a "Dreamer" law, which would allow unauthorised migrants brought to America as children a fast track to citizenship if they meet certain conditions, such as getting educated.
The bad news there, however, is that state crackdowns on unauthorised migrants, along with a border that is getting harder to cross, are making it tougher for migrant workers to flow to where they are needed.
Under May's leadership, the Home Office has embraced the idea of creating a "hostile environment" for unauthorised migrants; and it was on her watch that those infamous Home Office vans cruised the streets of six London boroughs – a move even Nigel Farage said was "nasty", and that the Home Office quickly abandoned.
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Even if the borders could somehow be sealed and every unauthorised migrant deported which would be cruel and impossible some 48m legally resident Hispanics would remain.
America's response has, however, been warped by the fact that many on the north side of the river see border security as the effort to keep unauthorised economic migrants out of the United States, with the illicit flow of drugs from Mexico and guns from the United States being lesser concerns.
This belies the common image of migrants as big producers of unauthorised offspring.
That would rule out most migrants, who often live in unauthorised lodgings and work without contracts.Officials sometimes hold up the city of Zhongshan in the southern province of Guangdong as an example of how hukou reform could work.
The organisation has enjoyed a boost in attention and momentum during this election thanks to Trump's inflammatory comments about migrants and his contention that unauthorised immigration presents not only an economic but also a safety threat to America.
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