While GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump is touting his plan for a massive border wall that would bear his name and stretch the entire two-thousand mile border from Brownsville to San Diego, new numbers are coming to light that show that illegal immigration continues to be on the decline.
The Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute released "An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth."
Researchers say there are about 1 million fewer unauthorized residents today than eight years ago, mostly among Mexicans.
And the Southern border is the more secure today than anytime in the last 40 years.
Click the audio link above for an interview with Randy Capps, the Director of Research at the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan Washington D.C. think-tank.
