Roughly One Million Illegals Estimated To Have Left US Since Trump Returned

Roughly one million illegal migrants booked it out of the U.S. since January, according to preliminary estimates from the Center for 🛂Immigration Studies (CIS).

There were approximately 14.8 million illegal migrants in the U.S. in May, one million fewer than were estimated to be in the country in January, according to CIS, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for lower levels of 🛂Immigration. The group contributed the decline, at least in large part, to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and nationwide crackdown on illegal migrants.

“These results strongly support the idea that the election of Donald Trump, his rhetoric, and high-profile enforcement actions as soon as he took office caused a large number of illegal immigrants to leave the country,” the study’s authors said.

“A large decline in the number of illegal immigrants could be very helpful to less-educated U.S.-born and legal-immigrant workers, whose wages may rise as a result,” the authors said. “Further, a tighter labor market and higher wages may help to draw back into jobs the near-record number of working-age American men without a college degree not in the labor force.”

CIS based their analysis off the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Population Survey, which showed a significant decline in the immigrant population — both legal and illegal — from January to May. The decline stemmed from a drop in the number of Latin American noncitizens who entered the U.S. in 1980 or later, a population CIS says overlaps “significantly” with illegal migrants.