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.
Western Medical Center. Santa Ana, CA.
Go ahead, call them. GET THE NAME OF THE PERSON YOU SPEAK with and FRmail that to me so I can verify.
Put your money where your mouth is......
I did but I didn't read it because you don't know how to use paragraphs.
That figures. Arkansas is one of the more corrupt states in the union. They gave us Bill Clinton. Some people think it can't get much worse, but it will if they continue to import illegal labor.
Read more than the headline....
:)
Now that got Republican Governor Mike Hucklebee. He blew a fuse when fellow Republicans there were promoting an Arkansas version of Prop. 200
You are entitled to believe what you want to believe.
If you cannot see that foreign workers are here because of our low birth rate, there is nothing more to be said.
If you cannot see or understand future demographic trends, you will never understand what is happening.
As for the U-Hauls, I don't have time to lookup the demographic data on that. What percentage of the population uses U-Haul?
What is wrong with the hospital? The website didn't indicate any problems. It is over a hundred years old though. Nothing lasts forever.
You mean the article doesn't sound as rosy as the headline? Yes. And nothing in the story tries to justify any belief that the state economy will improve. They are just arguing about the best way to slice up the taxpayers.
Analyst Elizabeth Hill warned that the annual deficits would climb to nearly $10 billion if the Democrat-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger don't agree on ongoing ways to eliminate at least $5 billion in red ink.
YOU mentioned to someone that you wanted to CALL a hospital...and you needed the name of one. I gave you the name.
ANYONE can put ANYTHING on a website. If it weren't illegal for ME to do, I'd go in some Friday night (especially) and take a picture of the ER waiting room.
Yep. And cutting programs? Well, well, well....and WHO would be needing said programs?
Of course you do, and unless someone hacked your profile page, here are your own words...
"But the facts are that our economy is dependent on immigrant labor; not enough are being admitted legally and it is impossible to prevent foreign laborers from entering America as long as we need their labor and they need the money to feed their families."So according to you, as long as our economy needs the criminals and the criminals need the money, then crime is OK with bayourod?
--Boot Hill
Concise.
Already happening in California. The "gated" ones don't worry about the invasion, their children go to private schools, they have the finest medical care, they hire illegal aliens, and they don't worry about increased taxes.
This mess is affecting the middle class and blue collar workers, who are forced to pay the bills for illegal aliens while they're struggling to pay for their own families and mortgages. Many have lost their jobs to illegal aliens.
Just like the third world, the rich and the poor, and the middle is dwindling. It's sick.
"I wonder how long it will be until my job becomes a job that "Americans just won't take"?
Not long, if the President has anything to say about it. Guest worker program = "No Americans Left Employed Program".
You need to take a refresher course in sequential calculus.
For people in California who are getting sick of illegals? Close to 100%. Well, if you include Ryder
As for demographics, Europe may be dependent on immigration but America is different. We have enough people here that we do not need to import them. And we can maintain the population with no problem.
How? Read this: Where Communism Works in America
What would that prove, except you have preconceived notions based on the appearance of certain type people?
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