Posted on 09/27/2005 2:11:07 PM PDT by dennisw
The number of new illegal immigrants to the United States surpassed the number of authorized immigrants from 1999 through at least last year, according to a study based on government statistics that was released today by the Pew Hispanic Center.
The study said that immigration to the United States-- legal and illegal, from all regions of the world-- rose during the 1990s, peaked in 2000 and declined substantially since 2001 as the national economy slowed. The number of new arrivals rose in 2004, as economic conditions improved, the study said.
Although, the arrival of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants declined with the economic downturn, the number of legal immigrants declined more sharply, the study said. Fewer legal immigrants arrived in 2003 and 2004 than in the mid-1990s, the study said, while the number of new illegal immigrants has settled back to about the same level as in the mid-1990s.
More than 34 million immigrants now live in the United States, and make up 12 percent of the nation's population, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. The number has more than tripled since 1970, when the foreign-born population numbered 9.6 million. In the Washington area, one in six residents was born in another country.
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We have our boy GWB to thank for this.
5 years in and counting.
Illegal crossings up 25% since 911.
Homeland security?
Let's shut it down.
WOT?
what a joke....
George Bush stresses that IRAQI border must be respected:
ping
No, we have a thriving economy to thank for this.
If I could say one thing to the president it would be.....
"Mr President, fight the war on terror and let the rest of us protect America."
What flavor k00laid are you serving today?
LOL
It didn't look like a thriving economy in NO.
Did Clinton do better? Did Reagan? Saying it's Bush's fault is silly and agenda driven.
You have traitors in gov't to thank for this.
It might be after the "clean up".
Name them.
No, we have a thriving economy to thank for this.
No, we have a President and Congress lacking a spine to enforce laws on the books, and willing to sell-out would-be good-paying American jobs to wage-eroding non-Americans, all for an imaginary Hispanic voting block.
In the meantime he's losing his base voting block of Americans (myself included) who want this issue dealt with. This President Bush is NOT the one I was led to believe I was voting for.
Since 9/11, there is no excuse for GWB's actions other than he is being paid off by his most wealthy supporters for cheap labor and has decided that risking some of our security is worth the payoff to his cronies.
Illegals are INVADERS. They are spitting in the face of legal immigrants with the help of globalist Free traders who want a race to the bottom where only two type exist - the elite and the rest of us.
Yep.
Excellent observation. How is it that Iraq's borders are more important than our own?
When were they enforced? Also, do you favor a guest worker plan?
Viva Jorge!
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