WAR BIRDS

Among recent arrivals, immigrants in the US who overstayed a visa were likely to outnumber people who illegally crossed the border, it said.

Overall, the Pew study was in line with previous research that has found many unauthorised immigrants have been living in the US for years and their children are more likely to have been born in the country than abroad.

Among the 10.7 million unauthorised immigrants, two-thirds of adults have lived in the United States for more than a decade, the Pew Research Centre study found. – Reuters

Picture: Reuters An RAF F-35B Lightning, a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle and a French Rafale fly over the English Channel in formation during the ‘Point Blank’ exercise, after taking off from RAF Mildenhall in Britain on Tuesday.