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.
Laying the illegal alien issue aside for a moment - if millions were made from illicit drug production and sales, of which their usage costed taxpayers in excess of $41 billion in annually, would you still be willing to say that we'd have no good understanding of the role profits made from such illegal activity plays in the American economy?
A scourge is a scourge, a cost is a cost, illegal is illegal, and ill-gotten profit is still just that. Without a willingness to enforce our laws, we essentially become a lawless society.
The illegals among the foreign born has more of the percentage. That's easily deduced considering the annual allowance of immigrants vs. illegals pouring into the USA.
Thats it in a nutshell.
Does anyone have a good sense about immigration numbers? If these are true, today's immigration rivals and even surpasses the immigration of the turn of the century was at its highest (like 1910-ish).
"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."
Oh really? Explain this to me then: If Tyson is needing labor so badly, why has Tyson systematically been ridding itself of it's American workforce? Why did they not expand their existing processing plants and keep the American workers on, too? There's only one explanation...they wanted a cheap, compliant workforce that will work for peanuts and are ignorant of American saftey and labor laws.
I actually think I've got a pretty good handle on what it has meant to the average American when it comes to illegal immigration - we blue-collar families get to watch our wages go down, our housing costs increase, out job benefits whittle away each year and our taxes rise to support the social costs of illegal immigration. Boy, is that a deal or what!
BTW, I have a friend from high school in the Springdale, Arkansas, area. It's hardly the paradise you make it out to be since the illegals have taken over the town. American workers have been seriously displaced since the illegals have inundated the area. I understand social services demands put on the county and state by the illegals are astounding, with a corresponding rise in local and state taxes to pay for the illegals' medical care, housing costs, food stamps and education costs for their children - not to mention the social services costs for all the displaced American workers who are now accessing state health care, food stamps, etc.
This really must be great for the business owners employing the illegals. They're pocketing a huge increase in profits and are able to shunt a lot of the costs of their unethical business practices off on the local "little people" who are now struggling to find and keep decent-paying jobs.
Tell me, what other laws, besides immigration law, safety and labor laws, should a business be able to break if it will improve the business's bottom line?
Go stand on the corner of Midland Ave. and Yonkers Ave. in the morning in NY.
Tell me things are ok and that they have never been better.
Do you know the reason? It's because huge areas of low-budget housing are now OFF LIMITS to whites because any white who lives in those areas will be attacked! Whole cities, BUILT BY WHITES decades ago, have been rendered "white-free" by the criminals. So among whites, there's a never-ending bidding war for housing in safer neighborhoods.
Housing would be a lot cheaper if we could live wherever we wanted. But anti-white violence prevents that.
In this country, illegals have been illegal as they cross the border. Once they are inside the country, they acheive a defacto legal status which means if they don't get in trouble, they are allowed to stay.
There are no written laws permitting this but it is based on societal views. It grew to be that way in the border states where there have always been illegals. Of course this designation has become conflicted as the numbers rise and the geographic locations expand.
I'm sure that you are aware that there is, to a degree, a defacto legalization of illegal drugs. In this country, drug users tend to be ignored.
Why? What would I see?
So what's your solution to this problem?
I love your tagline! :)
That needs to be repeated. California is the prime example.
Obviously, some don't make the transition. It is not because the oppurtunities don't exist. Just look at the educational oppurtunities in this country. Look at the number of skilled labor jobs in this country that are not taken by citizens. If a man wants to make a living driving a garbage truck. his future is not too bright. He should get a pell grant.
You would probably be an illegal alien too, with no business being in this country much less voting in its elections.
Most Hispanic U.S. citizens I know SHARE the beliefs you state above.
You're right! Young California couples with kids don't want to move into gang-infested neighborhoods, but those neighborhoods are the only ones affordable unless they want a 50 mile ride to go to work. My grown sons are facing this dilemma currently.
Housing for illegal aliens is cheap, because many live in two bedroom apartments with wives or girlfriends, and their kids, with two or three families in one apartment. Try cleaning up that mess when they move in the middle of the night. There's no law enforcement here when it comes to illegal aliens.
And probably laugh at you behind your back (in Spanish) for believing that they share your dislike of Hispanics.
"The arrival of mexicans has generally raised wages for many/most natives."
How many blue-collar familes do you know personally? I can assure you that when illegal aliens infiltrate an industry it means only one thing to the Americans who previously worked in that industry - a large pay cut and displacement from the job market.
Think about something here for a minute: Why should law-abiding American citizens have to step aside to accommodate law-breaking noncitizens and give a break to the scuzzbucket employers that exploit these illegals? Can you see what's wrong with that picture?
Is America only a nation of laws for the "little guy"? Are employers some kind of privileged people who don't have to abide by the same laws that bind the rest of the population? Why should an American citizen (who happens to be a great carpenter, plumber, electrician, heavy equipment operator...you fill in the blank) have to step aside so a NONCITIZEN can be given his job? In a lot of cases, the above American carpenters, plumbers, etc., are business owners themselves and are driven out of business because they can't compete when they're having to bid against other same-type businesses that hire illegals.
Again, what other laws do YOU think it's okay for a business to break if it improves the business's bottom line?
"If a man wants to make a living driving a garbage truck. his future is not too bright. He should get a pell grant."
You know, this may be a big shock to you, but not every one living in America is suited for a college education. Some people are wonderful electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc., but they just aren't cut out to be a doctor, lawyer, nurse, banker, CPA or IT geek. Those people don't count for much in your world, do they?
You moron. I am Hispanic, and many in my family and my friends who are Hispanic not only share my views but don't even speak Spanish that well if at all. It's called ASSIMILATION - something the hordes being imported by Bush for his contributors aren't a part of.
Info Bump!!!
I mention driving garbage trucks, you distort that to electricians and other skilled trades.
Let me expand my statement. There are many, many jobs that require no skills. Driving garbage trucks, cutting chickens, cutting firewood. And yes, there are electrical and plumbing jobs that require no skills. If you are protected by a union, you are OK.
Let me assure that for the man that wants to hustle, there are many oppurtunities in Springdale.
The world changes. It always has and it always will. The workforce in this country is vastly different from what it was a 100 years ago. The women have moved in. The blacks have moved in. The mexicans have moved in.
Your statement that some people are not cut out to be educated is pure silliness. My father was a chicken cutter, I'm a chicken cutter, and my son will be a chicken cutter. Work with your head, not your hands.
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