[Alberta's Child]

There was an interesting item in the business report on a local radio station here in the NYC area within the last couple of weeks. From what the guest was saying, the real push here isn't for citizenship at all: it's for a flood of new temporary visas that would allow these foreigners to work here. Oddly enough, it seems that there's an understanding among a lot of government and business leaders that most of these illegal immigrants don't really want to stay in the U.S.. This reflects your comment about Mexicans returning home after a few years.

[kabar]

Oddly enough, it seems that there's an understanding among a lot of government and business leaders that most of these illegal immigrants don't really want to stay in the U.S.. This reflects your comment about Mexicans returning home after a few years.

Pure BS. They are staying here. Most of them are not going home. In 1970 one in 21 in this country was foreign born; today it is one in 8, the highest it has been in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history.

Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million (±99,000) responded that they came to the United States in 2000 or later. That is, 13.9 million immigrants were in the country in 2010 who had come to the United States between 2000 and 2010. Of course, some of the immigrants who arrived during the decade would have died or returned home by 2010, so the actual level of new arrivals is somewhat higher. The reason that the immigrant population did not grow by 13.9 million is that roughly five million immigrants died or went home over this time period so the net change was slightly more than 8.8 million.