The top-two ways illegal

The top-two ways illegal
immigrants arrive in the U. S.
In each year from 2007 to 2014, more people joined the ranks of the illegal by remaining in the United States after their temporary visitor
permits expired than by creeping across the Mexican border, according to a report by researchers at the Center for Migration Studies.
The Trump administration has said it will continue to prioritize deporting those with serious criminal records, but, in a break from the Obama administration, the new policies also take aim at immigrants whose offenses are limited to living here without permission or minor crimes
that enable immigrants to work here, like driving without a license or using a fake Social Security number.
In December 2013, border security agents caught Clemente Armenta-Velasquez trying to return to the United States near Nogales, Ariz. After arriving in the United States in 2000, he had lived
and worked in Arizona, where, records show, he was prosecuted on drug charges in 2002.
One reason Mr. Trump and many proponents of curbing immigration see the Mexican border as alarmingly porous is
that thousands of people each year are convicted of illegally re-entering the country after being previously deported.
Here’s the Reality About Illegal Immigrants in the United States -
By VIVIAN YEE, KENAN DAVIS and JUGAL K. PATEL MARCH 6, 2017
There are 11 million of them, the best estimates say, laboring in American fields, atop half-built towers
and in restaurant kitchens, and swelling American classrooms, detention centers and immigration courts.