Increase in illegal immigration corresponds with push for immigration 'reform'

BBC:

The sharp decline in illegal immigration to the US during the long economic downturn has ended, a research group has estimated.

The number of immigrants in the US illegally edged up to 11.7 million in 2012 from 11.3 million in 2009, the Pew Research Center found.

The number of illegal immigrants had declined over several years from a high of 12.2 million in 2007.

The recent growth is largely driven by immigrants from outside of Mexico.

"As a whole, with the recession ending, the decrease in illegal immigration has stopped," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew.

While the change is within the margin of error, evidence including increased apprehensions of migrants at the US border leads Pew researchers to speculate in a new report that illegal immigration is again rising.
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Of course they are coming again.  I have been blogging about it for months, from the stories of apprehensions and the human trafficking by the cartels to the dead found on the ranches of Texas as they try to avoid the Border Patrol station.   Mexico has been very ineffective in stopping the Central Americans who are openly riding on top of Mexican freight trains along the Gulf Coast up to the Texas border.