Appearing with Gramm and Texas'other GOP senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, at a news conference, Texas Gov . George W . Bush, said : " One of my missions was to tell the governors that a failed Mexican economy creates enormous illegal immigration pressure in our state ."
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Jeff Passell, a demographer at the Urban Institute, said that despite the declines there were still considerable immigration pressures on the U . S . " There is still a lot of demand for immigration to the United States, but we are are only allowing certain categories of people in, and we limit the numbers in those categories, " he said.