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Immigrants Departing South Carolina
The number of illegal immigrants in South Carolina has dropped significantly in recent years as undocumented workers deterred by the state's poor economy go elsewhere for work.
While the national total has dropped only slightly since 2007 - from 12 million to 11.2 million, or 6.7 percent - South Carolina's share of illegal immigrants has declined by 21.4 percent - from 70,000 to 55,000 - in the same period.
North Carolina's illegal immigration population has stayed relatively stable at an estimated 325,000 last year after taking a slight dip the year before.
Jeff Passell, a demographer with the Pew Research Center who wrote the Washington group's report released Tuesday, said economic woes in South Carolina and beyond have slowed the influx of undocumented workers from Mexico and other countries.
"Certainly when the economy is bad, the attraction for new unauthorized immigrants just isn't there," Passell told McClatchy. "In places where the economy is bad, what we've seen historically is that the flow of new unauthorized immigrants drops dramatically." -Read more at SunNews
While the national total has dropped only slightly since 2007 - from 12 million to 11.2 million, or 6.7 percent - South Carolina's share of illegal immigrants has declined by 21.4 percent - from 70,000 to 55,000 - in the same period.
North Carolina's illegal immigration population has stayed relatively stable at an estimated 325,000 last year after taking a slight dip the year before.
Jeff Passell, a demographer with the Pew Research Center who wrote the Washington group's report released Tuesday, said economic woes in South Carolina and beyond have slowed the influx of undocumented workers from Mexico and other countries.
"Certainly when the economy is bad, the attraction for new unauthorized immigrants just isn't there," Passell told McClatchy. "In places where the economy is bad, what we've seen historically is that the flow of new unauthorized immigrants drops dramatically." -Read more at SunNews
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