Roughly 1 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since January, the month President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
The findings come as the Trump administration intensifies its efforts to ramp up deportations, targeting large cities with so-called “sanctuary” policies and resuming operations at farms, hotels, and other businesses.
CIS, a nonprofit research group that analyzes U.S. immigration policies, said in a June 19 report that the estimated decline appears tied to the Trump administration’s early immigration enforcement push.
“The number of illegal immigrants has fallen by 1 million since the start of the year, perhaps due to their leaving in response to President Trump’s election and stepped-up enforcement efforts,” CIS wrote. “The decline was caused by a falloff in the number of noncitizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants.”…