In 2010, there was roughly about two hundred and eighty one million Hispanics in the U.S. population. The Hispanic population is all over the United States, all in the four regions in the country which they are; Northeast, Midwest, South and West. Most of the Hispanic population is in California which has thirty-four million Hispanics, followed by Texas which has twenty-one million Hispanics. Out of those 281,000,000 Hispanics, they’re 32,000,000 Hispanics originated from Mexico. Also their destination is California first followed by Texas, then Arizona, Illinois, and then Colorado.
Illegal immigrants cross the US-Mexico border into Arizona, California, and Texas everyday surreptitiously. Using state-level data from 1985 to 2010 test the
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The labor values in the United States was the pull factor which drove and influx of illegal Mexican Immigrants to come to the U.S. illegally. The greater labor market here in the U.S. is one hundred times better than Mexico’s. The peso crisis in Mexico was the push factor that increased the illegal immigration dilemma. Some evaded customs and immigration inspectors at ports of entry by hiding in vehicles such as cargo trucks. Others slogged through the Arizona desert, wadded across the Rio Grande or otherwise avoided the U.S. Border Patrol, which has jurisdiction over all the land areas away from the ports of entry on the borders with Mexico and Canada.
Nowadays “Coyotes” have man made underground tunnels, which allows them to cross the frontier illegally without being detected. It’s 1,954 miles of continental border that divides Mexico and the United States. Starting the Gulf of Mexico, to San Diego, California right before reaching the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Mexico and the United States is the most frequent cross border in the world. America has been their number one destination to all immigrants; they seek shelter,