U.S. border apprehensions of Mexicans fall to historic lows

*This is the result of several things. Mexican undocumented immigration is significantly down since a peak in 2000. Also, other-than-Mexican crossings along the U.S. southern border have increased in the past two years. This tweaks the immigration conversation. VL

By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Research Center

For the first time on record, more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended at U.S. borders in 2014 by the Border Patrol, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of more than 60 years of Border Patrol data. This shift is another sign that unauthorized immigrants from Mexico are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border significantly less often than they did before the Great Recession.

About 229,000 Mexicans were apprehended by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2014 compared with 257,000 non-Mexicans during the previous year, according to recently published Border Patrol data. Taken together, total apprehensions of Mexican and non-Mexican unauthorized immigrants (more than 486,000) were up 16% over the previous year.

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