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I'm sure you wouldn't have posted those graphs, without a soure for the information. Would you EV?

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http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_research05b5

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From that same source:



During the first 50 years after Independence,the United States received about 710,000 immigrants. In 2001 alone, we admitted one million.

During the first century or so of our country (1776 to 1884),we received about two immigrants a day; since the 1990s, we have been admitting two immigrants a minute.

In the last 20 years,the United States has admitted more immigrants than it did in the previous 65 years.

The level of legal immigration has doubled in the last 30 years

Since the 1990s,we have admitted enough new immigrants to make a new city larger than Washington D.C., every year.

The 1990 Immigration Act increased legal immigration by 40 percent.

There are 31 million immigrants already living in the United States; this is more than 11 percent of the nation's population. In 2001, the following nine countries supplied over half of all immigrant visas:

Mexico 19.4%
India 6.6%
China 5.3%
Phillipines 5.0%
Vietnam 3.3%
El Salvador 2.9%
Cuba 2.6%
Haiti 2.5%
Bosnia 2.2%

Updated 10/02

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Table 1
Immigration Volume and Rates

Years	Average Yearly Total - All Countries	Immigration Rates (Per 1000 Population)	Percent of Average Yearly Total
			Great Britain	Ireland	Scandinavia and Other NW Europe	Germany	Central and Eastern Europe	Southern Europe	Asia	Africa	Australia and Pacific Islands	Mexico	Other America
1630-1700	2,200	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1700-1780	4,325	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1780-1819	9,900	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1820-1831	14,538	1.3	22	45	12	8	0	2	0	0	----	4	6
1832-1846	71,916	4.3	16	41	9	27	0	1	0	0	----	1	5
1847-1854	334,506	14.0	13	45	6	32	0	0	1	0	----	0	3
1855-1864	160,427	5.2	25	28	5	33	0	1	3	0	----	0	4
1865-1873	327,464	8.4	24	16	10	34	1	1	3	0	0	0	10
1874-1880	260,754	5.6	18	15	14	24	5	3	5	0	0	0	15
1881-1893	525,102	8.9	14	12	16	26	16	8	1	0	0	0	6
1894-1899	276,547	3.9	7	12	12	11	32	22	3	0	0	0	2
1900-1914	891,806	10.2	6	4	7	4	45	26	3	0	0	1	5
1915-1919	234,536	2.3	5	2	8	1	7	21	6	0	1	8	40
1920-1930	412,474	3.6	8	5	8	9	14	16	3	0	0	11	26
1931-1946	50,507	0.4	10	2	9	15	8	12	3	1	1	6	33
1947-1960	252,210	1.5	7	2	6	8	4	10	8	1	1	15	38
1961-1970	332,168	1.7	6	1	4	6	4	13	13	1	1	14	38
1971-1980	449,331	2.1	3	0	1	2	4	8	35	2	1	14	30
1981-1990	733,806	3.1	2	0	1	1	3	2	37	2	1	23	27
1991-1998	950,634	3.6	2	1	0	1	9	1	31	4	1	25	24

Sources: Years before 1820: Grabbe (1989). 1820-1970: Historical Statistics (1976). Years since 1970: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (various years). Note: Entries with a zero indicate less than one-half of one percent. Entries with dashes indicate no information or no immigrants.