In addition, smaller Numbers ofmigrantworkers from LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean have lostconstructionjobsthannativenon-Hispanicworkers during the US slowdown in 2007-08.
Some 80% of the 11.1m illegal immigrants in America as of last year are from LatinAmerica, and 60% are from Mexico alone, according to the Pew Hispanic Centre.