Then he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, living in a “feeder” valley in the Mexican state of Querétaro and ventured with migrants across the border into America.

接下来他开始关注非法移民，这些人生活在墨西哥中部富饶的山谷中，CONOVER和移民一起冒险通过边境进入美国。

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Then he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, living in a "feeder" valley in the Mexican state of Querétaro and ventured with migrants across the border into America.

接下来他开始关注非法移民，这些人生活在墨西哥中部富饶的山谷中，CONOVER和移民一起冒险通过边境进入美国。

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Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Pew Hispanic Centre, estimates that the number of illegal immigrants in America fell by 500,000 between 2007 and 2008.

皮尤西班牙裔研究中心(Pew Hispanic Centre)的人口学家杰弗里•帕赛尔(Jeffrey Passel)预计2007至2008年间美国非法移民的数量下降了50万人。

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In a tacit acknowledgment of the millions of illegal immigrants in America, numerous banks accept the matricula consular, a card issued by Mexican consulates regardless of the applicant's legal status, as sufficient identification to open a bank account.

ECONOMIST: Banking for immigrants

Some 80% of the 11.1m illegal immigrants in America as of last year are from Latin America, and 60% are from Mexico alone, according to the Pew Hispanic Centre.

ECONOMIST: The Hispanicisation of America

Mr Bush's plans, which involve tighter border security, a guest-worker programme and a path to citizenship for the 12m or so illegal immigrants already in America is sensible and humane.

ECONOMIST: American politics