THE backlash against the presence in the United States of some12 m illegal immigrants, four-fifths of them from Mexico and other parts of Latin America, is at full strength.

• 美国大约1200万的非法移民中有五分之四来自墨西哥和拉丁美洲的某些地区，抵挡此现状的后冲力达到了最大的强度。