"It has to do with public perception," he said, noting reports that some illegal immigrants are leaving the area in part because of his deputies.

His firefighters have taken to helicopter flights three times a week to find the remains of the campfires the illegal immigrants leave, he said.

Southern attempts to encourage immigrant labor were unsuccessful as immigrants would quickly leave field labor.

These immigrants would have left Sri Lanka in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Now the goal is to encourage immigrants to leave the hotels for trailer parks, where theoretically they will become more self-sufficient.

The Scotch-Irish immigrants left their homelands due to a number of political, economic and religious reasons.

Visitors will enter through the baggage room where the immigrants left the bulk of their luggage.

Because the area had limited land available, experienced periodic crop failures, and was undergoing changes to its industry, immigrants left to find better economic conditions.

Understanding what immigrants left behind helps him understand why they took risks in their new homes, he said.

The Government, he said, has no precise count because it is not necessarily informed when immigrants die or leave the country.