Posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:20 PM PST by F16Fighter
The size of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States is probably about 9 million people.
A report released by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 2003 estimated the size of the undocumented immigrant population at 7.0 million in 2000. A separate analysis by Jeff Passel of the Urban Institute estimated there were 8.5 million undocumented immigrants in 2000. Passel and others believe that net illegal immigration from Mexico alone has been growing at a rate of 500,000 people annually, which places current estimates at a minimum of 9.0 million unauthorized immigrants.
In the 1990s, the undocumented immigrant population grew by 350,000 per year. According to the INS, from 1990 to 1999, the size of the undocumented immigrant population grew by about 350,000 people per year on average, and by as much as 500,000 people per year in the latter third of the decade.
The states with the largest unauthorized populations are California and Texas. INS estimates show the states that had the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2000 were California (2.2 million) and Texas (1.0 million), followed by New York (0.5 million), Illinois (0.4 million), and Florida (0.3 million). Texas became the second state after California to have over one million unauthorized residents.
Almost one-third of all undocumented immigrants live in California. According to the INS, of all undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2000, 32 percent lived in California, followed by Texas (15 percent), New York (7 percent), Illinois (6 percent), and Florida (5 percent). Combined, these five states accounted for 64 percent of all undocumented migrants.
The states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations in the 1990s were California, Texas, and Illinois, in that order.
INS data show that the states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations between 1990 and 2000 were California, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York, in that order. Each of these states had increases of morethan 100,000 in the number of unauthorized residents between 1990 and 2000.
Georgia, North Carolina, and Colorado experienced rapid growth in their unauthorized immigrant populations between 1990 and 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, the unauthorized immigrant populations of several states grew rapidly, according to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, including:
Georgia 571 percent (from 34,000 to 228,000)
North Carolina: 692 percent (from 26,000 to 206,000)
Colorado 365 percent (from 31,000 to 144,000)
Seven states that had 10,000 or fewer unauthorized immigrants in 1990 also experienced rapid growth through the decade:
Arkansas 440 percent (from 5,000 to 27,000)
South Carolina 414 percent (from 7,000 to 36,000)
Tennessee 411 percent (from 9,000 to 46,000)
Alabama 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Iowa 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Wisconsin 310 percent (from 10,000 to 41,000)
Nebraska 300 percent (from 6,000 to 24,000)
There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000. The five countries of origin with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations are Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, and Honduras.
In 2000, the largest source country for unauthorized immigrants was Mexico (4.8 million), according to the INS. The unauthorized resident population from Mexico increased by 140 percent, from about 2.0 million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2000, according to the INS. Unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 69 percent of the total unauthorized resident population in 2000. In 1990, unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 58 percent of the total.
Six other source countries were estimated to have over 100,000 unauthorized immigrants resident in the United States, including El Salvador (189,000), Guatemala (144,000), Colombia (141,000), Honduras (138,000), China (115,000), and Ecuador (108,000). There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000.
This information was compiled by Elizabeth Grieco, MPI’s Data Manager, in October 2003. For questions or to arrange an interview with a data expert or policy analyst, please contact Colleen Coffey at 202-266-1910 or ccoffey@migrationpolicy.org. Please visit us at www.migrationpolicy.org.
Here, I'll recap..
It's every body's fault (Buchanan, the liberal, zero population growth/environmentalist/anti-immigrant/eugenics complex,StormFront, KKK, anti immigrants,the Internet cottage industry of anti-immigrant fund-raising sites...blah, blah, blah)
Everyone's fault EXCEPT the people who stepped the borders ILLEGALLY.
And NO mention of Americans busting their humps to support themselves and their families while the retail cost of EVERYTHING continues to rise and the government steals a LARGE chunk of our personal property and uses it to support people.....
who shouldn't be here in the first place!
Thanks Mama. Bayodd added another one to the list yesterday -- people who pack up and leave because they are sick of supporting illegals.
LOL! The never ending list of rationalized irrationality!
Bayodd?
(snicker)
U-Haul economics is very telling. I tried to rent a 26 footer in November. No big trucks were available, so I went with Budget Rents, because Ryder's large trucks were also unavailable. A move out of LA county to San Bernardino county was around 300 dollars for 3 days.
I wish I could move out of here. People tell me New Mexico is very beautiful.
Yes they do. About 26% of the population if California is foreign-born. Yet the population of California only increased by 13% from 1990 to 2000 (about half a percent more than the US as a whole.
If you were to remove that 26% foreign-born population from California the state would have had a net drop in the census. (Of course it would start to increase again as the refugees who fled California would start to return.)
The major source of population growth in California was from immigration.
There is a town of Shelton in Washington State, where the woods are full of illegals. They work in the christmas tree farms, pick brush, mushrooms etc legally. They also have the crank factories, sleep on private property, and grow cannabis. Their is fear among LE to go into the woods, they will not come out alive. It is not unlike the stories you heard about in the south with the stills. Now this is with nightime temperatures constantly around 30-50F year around. It is wet and quite unlike Mexicans are used to. How is it in states with drier and warmer climates I think.
Your blending the numbers, adding legal and illegal.
If there are 10 mil illegals, I fail to see how 180 thousand could be of any consequence.
Does Pat Buchannan recommend immigration as a solution to low birth rates?
BTW the US fertility rate is just about 2.1, which is what you need for a stable population. We are making enough babies now. We don't need to import people.
Old-order Amish have up to 9 kids per family, Hutterites have about 6. If our numbers start to decline and there is room for more Amish, in a few generations there will be a few million of them. Population decline is not a crises in this country. In Europe it is a problem because they don't tolerate fundamentalist Christians like we do.
"Can they cut up chickens or lay asphalt in the Arizona sun?"
Who do you think was cutting up Tyson chickens before Tyson began trucking in illegals to do it at cut-rate wages? American citizens were, that's who! I knew American citizens who worked for Tyson processing chickens as late as 2001. Now, those Americans have been booted out for cheap-o illegal aliens. The truth is that Tyson decided the $7.00-$8.00 per hour they were paying American citizens was just too much. They also decided Americans were too picky about safety standards and decided it would be a lot better (for Tyson) to be able to employ a cheap, easily intimidated workforce that doesn't know about labor laws or safety standards.
Ditto for laying asphalt. I know plenty of people (American citizens) who lay asphalt and work in road construction. Some of them are my family members. The only difference is now since the illegals have infiltrated the road construction trades my American friends and family members have watched their salaries decrease - and their chances of getting a job decrease as well. Once again, business would much rather employ a cheap compliant workforce that will be easy to intimidate and won't kick about unsafe conditions.
BTW, do you know any Amish people or Mennonite people? I do. The Amish people I know don't use any type of motor-driven machinery. They farm with horses and do their labor by hand. When it comes to stamina, strength and work ethic I'd put them up against a bunch of illegal aliens any day.
Consider that a third of the foreign-born population of the US is illegal and those numbers still show that California's "boom" was driven by illegal immigration. If you removed 8.25% of the population from California (the illegals) the state would have had a population increase of 5.35%. Far less than the population increase of 13.1% in the US.
But I'll bet it's worse than that in California, the foreign born population there is probably a lot more than 33% illegal.
I'm glad you aren't like Bayodd, you make the distinction between legal and illegal.
I don't know where you live, but it is a different world from where I live.
Did you know that there are more hispanics entering this country via the birth canal than crossing the border?
Southwestern Missouri. Luckily, this particular little part of Southwestern Missouri hasn't succumbed to the illegal invasion yet. Other parts of the Ozarks have been invaded - the towns that have the Tyson chicken processing plants. Some of the corporate hog farms use illegals, too. The ones in this particular area employ American citizens. I have some friends that work in one of them.
"Quite frankly, and for the sake of the United States, ALL immigration from Mexico needs to be shut down until we get a handle on this. Period."
F16Fighter, you are probably correct. We have no idea how many "undocumented" persons are here.
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Among the USC study's findings:
-The share of foreign-born in the state's population grew from 15 percent to 27 percent in the last 25 years, but will only grow to almost 30 percent - 29.8 percent - by 2030.
-The second generation grew from 12 percent of the state population in 1980 to 17 percent currently and will be almost 21 percent in 2030.
-The second generation is expected to account for the majority of growth in the state's work force by 2030. In the last 25 years, new immigrants made up about two-thirds of the work-force growth, but in the next 25 years they will provide only one-third of the growth. Instead, the second generation will constitute 59 percent of the growth.
You may analyze their findings for that support.
You need to understand that per capita consumption of chicken exploded over the last 20-25 years. US exports of leg quarters to Russia and Mexico is huge. None of this would have been possible without the Mexicans
For you, mexicans are something new. Not so for me. I have been around them all my life. You indicate the way it is where you live, and I know that to be a fact based on my experience in Baxter County, AR. But I also know what it is like in Rogers/Springdale. That is an amazing place. Not only did the boom there require the importation of labor, but the contractors had to be imported also.
Not to be critical, but I don't think you have an good understanding of the role of illegals and how they underlie the growth in this country.
As for the Mennonites, I stated my source. I will add that there are a great many farming in Mexico and those there are a great source of understanding social issues in Mexico.
"Az: The major source of growth."
BF: You would have to show me some stats to support that."
Let's see:
8 1/4% of population growth contributable to illegals.
5.35% of population growth attributable to legal residents.
That's 1 1/2 times more illegal than legal population growth. Now, what was that you were saying Ben?
We started on illegals, and you have switched to foreign born which is legal plus illegal plus guests.
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