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    > With the recent reduction in immigration[...]

What's your source for that? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I wasn't able to find any year-by-year statistics for US immigration.

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Some good, fairly recent data from Pew [1] and in this [2] NY Times article. From what I gather from this, border crossings are going down, but illegal visa overstays are going up.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/27/5-facts-abou...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/06/us/politics/u...

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