“There’s just not much demographic potential for mass migration from Central America,” said Douglas Massey, who has spent the last three decades tracking migration as a co-founder of the Mexico Migration Project. By the numbers, there is nothing resembling a “national emergency” on the border, as Trump has called it. The birthrate matters, because most people who migrate to the United States without authorization do so before they turn 30. “The demographics are not there.” Immigration from El Salvador may have already peaked... That phenomenon might already be underway in El Salvador. Border Patrol arrested more than 27,000 Salvadoran families in 2016, along with 17,500 unaccompanied children.

Source: Huffington Post October 31, 2018 19:03 UTC