ASSOCIATED PRESS / JUNE 2011
Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration reform activist Jose Antonio Vargas listened as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified at a hearing regarding immigration reform and the DREAM Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. Legal immigrants living in the U.S. now surpass in number those who entered the country illegally, reflecting a dwindling inflow of Latino migrants that is creating political pressure for an immigration fix that gives legal status to the millions of undocumented already here.