1 in 7 Mexican workers employed in the U.S.: report

The Enemy in our midst.

1 in 7 Mexican workers employed in the U.S.: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in seven Mexican workers have left their country
and are working in the United States, an immigration study said on Tuesday.

There were more than 7 million workers from Mexico in the U.S. labor force
this year, 2 million more than six years ago, said the report's author,
Jeanne Batalova of the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington think tank.

Batalova said the increase in numbers had to do with economic reasons, with
more immigrants looking for a better life in the United States, but also
with the increased enforcement at the U.S.-Mexican border.

Jerry Okamura...

What has better enforcement got to do with how many people are working?

"It became more dangerous to cross the border, and that caused a 'lock in'
effect," Batalova told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Up to 9.4 percent of the all persons born in Mexico were living in the
United States in 2005, according to the report. In the same year, 14 percent
of Mexican workers had jobs on U.S. soil, compared to 2.5 percent of
Canadians.

Jerry Okamura...

So, how are the remaining 86% of Mexicans surviving in the United States and
how are the 97.5% of Canadians surviving in the United States??

Census Bureau 2006 Current Population Survey, Batalova found that Mexicans
accounted for nearly one-third of the 22.6 million foreign-born workers in
the United States, or almost 5 percent of the total civilian labor force.

More than 11 million illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, live in
the United States, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, another think tank
in Washington that follows immigration trends.