[Black Tooth]

during fiscal 2004, according to the federal Office of Immigration Statistics, another 1,283 arrived legally from Saudi Arabia, 12,888 from Pakistan, 1,787 from Yemen, 6,590 from Egypt and 779 from Sudan.

This is almost 24,000 in one year, from only 5 countries. And I don't think these were on temp visas. Still looking for the other stat.

[hardworking]

Still looking for the other stat

Seriously, what do you suppose the reproduction numbers would be on this many, over say ten to twenty years? Might be interesting to run a mathematical calculation based on an 'average' number of children they produce - there is probably a stat out there somewhere on that.

[nuconvert]

Thanks. That's a lot of Pakistanis. Is 24,000 up from previous years?