U.S. pop. has increased about 3 or 3 1/2 times since 1910.
Percentage of immigrants living in this country today is lower than in 1910.
You're talking facts and the disruptors on this site don't want facts; they want mass hysteria and by darned, they'll do everything they can to whip it up.
As well, it's a mystery to me why a Republican president is being condemned by supposed Republicans on a Republican web site when this issue has been mishandled by every president since the beginning of time.
Did one single of these freepers have anything to say when Clinton ignored the immigration issue? It's not like 12 million people appeared in this country since the day George W. Bush was elected.
The key in that paragraph is the phrase legal and illegal.
Rapid illegal immigration is a phenomenon limited to the last 50 years of American history. It wasn't seen as a problem before the 1950`s and it didn't become a major problem until the 1980`s.
To your point. In 1910 there were 13.5 million foreign born people living in the US. These people came here legally and were US citizens. Illegal aliens weren't a measurable factor in the overall immigration data from that time.
Today by the best conservative estimates, there are some 12-15 million illegals living and working in the US. That ranges anywhere from 3.6% to 5.0% of the population. And that is the problem. Illegal immigration is rising each year.
If you go back to my original post, I bolded the main point I was trying to make. It was in answer to someones request about how many illegals have come here since 9-11. According to the website I linked to, the Center for Immigration Studies, some 3.7 million illegals have come into the US since 2000. That means roughly 3-million have come here since 9-11.