Posted on 12/14/2005 7:36:46 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
As the US Congress considers some tough immigration proposals to tighten the entry process into the country, a new study shows that of the 35.2 million foreign-born population in America in 2005, around 1.4 million are Indians.
There are 35.2 million foreign-born people with the number of illegal immigrants anywhere between 9 to 13 million, according to the study by the Centre for Immigration Studies.
"The 35.2 million immigrants living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded -- two-and-a-half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910," said by Steven Camarota, director of research for the Centre.
Of the 35.2 million foreign born immigrants in the United States in 2005, South Asia would account for 1.8 million with India taking the bulk of this figure with 1.411 millions and accounting for a citizenship rate of nearly 34 per cent.
About 12.1 per cent of the current US population was born in another country, the highest percentage since 1920, according to Census figures.
Overall Mexico will come away with the highest number of foreign immigrants at nearly 11 million which will be followed by East Asia, South Asia (India) and Vietnam in South East Asia.
Statistics show that as far as India is concerned, the period 2000 to 2005 showed a sharp upswing in the number of immigrants at nearly 460,000 for the 5-year period.
The pre-1980 statistics show an immigrant population number for India at 170,000, rising to 209,000 between 1980 and 1989 and to 573,000 between 1990 and 1999.
They didn't ask that question for the '50 census, but in 1940 the fraction was 1.8% while in 1990 it was 9.0%. I'm sure the '90 and later if I took the time to find the results, under reports the Hispanic fraction, by not counting many of them at all. http://www.census.gov/population/documentation/twps0056/tab01.xls
I looked at your link and people of "Hispanic origin" were ~1.5% in 1940. So I'm pretty close. The percentage of Jews in 1940 was probably 2.2% and for blacks 10%
All I'm saying is Hispanics did not really help to make America, to build America, except as a footnote. I would say the same about Jews, and I'm Jewish
It's funny, and they say that American men are sexist! :) I have seen it more and more from the Latin and South Asian cultures, but I still don't know how to handle it, rather than the golden rule. That works! :D
These companies are trying to hold down their labor costs in order to sell products at a more competitive price. In the process, it "costs" Americans their jobs.
There are parallels between the lower end of the payscale and the upper. Wherever there are folks who will work for less and are less than completely legal, then companies will find them and exploit them.
It's just that the H1-B process is more "legal" than the illegals working for farmers, roofers, landscapers, etc. But the net effect is that they do "rob" Americans of their jobs.
BTW, I consider part of this problem to be because of Greenspan. IF he weren't such an inflation hawk, companies would be able to pay more for labor and raise their prices. BUT since they can't, they seek the lowest cost labor and any other way they can find to keep their cost of end-product as low as possible.
Therefore, if they can find a way of hiring lower-cost labor, like H1-B's who are basically indentured servants, working obscene humbers of hours a week while waiting for the "safety" of their Green card, they will, at the expense of Americans who "should" be able to get the wages that their education and experience warrants. You can read Prof. Norm Matloff's bio here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html
And there are several hotlinks on that page to his work on H1-B Visas as well as a summary of his appearance before Congress on the subject. He also maintains an email list, keeping the members apprised of the current events on H1-B Visas, here: Norm Matloff
< matloff@laura.cs.ucdavis.edu >
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