Posted on 12/12/2005 5:11:50 PM PST by LouAvul
WASHINGTON - Immigration — both legal and illegal — continues to boom as Congress grapples with how to better control America's borders.
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 7.9 million people moved to the United States in the past five years, the highest five-year period of immigration on record.
The report, released Monday, comes as the House prepares to take up a bill to curb illegal immigration by boosting border security and requiring workplace enforcement of immigration laws.
There are 35.2 million foreign-born people living in the United States, according to the report, which is based on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey from March. The report said an estimated 9 million to 13 million are here illegally.
"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 the report by Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates tougher policies on illegal immigration and favors attracting immigrants with needed job skills.
About 12.1 percent of the current U.S. population was born in another country, the highest percentage since 1920, according to Census figures.
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Blame the Open Border Policy.
Grappling? Hell, last I saw, the only thing to come out of Capitol Hill was a plan to give all the illegals incentives to bring even more illegal aliens over!
Very disapointing. We have Republican control of the White House, and the Congress. Its our own party that is failing us on this issue. We have the power to do something about it but we won't.
ping
I've long since given up on these morons and don't see any meaningful action on immigration until all Hell breaks lose. Maybe then they will take action but not before - Akin to the response to Terrorism pre-911.
laking = lacking
Its our own party that is failing us on this issue. We have the power to do something about it but we won't.
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Well we can thank our el hefe Presidente for this. Every bit of it. His ONE AMERICA agenda is being conducted at the full expense of America, in so many ways. There is no mystery anymore.
Here Jorge Arbusto, your legacy is being written as we speak. Ain't you proud? Blackbird.
The RNC called me to beg money the other day. I told them to solicit funds from all of the immigrants and illegals pouring into the country. Jackasses in elephants clothing.
That amnesty was bad news, it was pushed by Alan Simpson and Romano Mazzoli and to this day Simpson continues to defend the disaster. Reagan should never have agreed to it but it was part of a compromise bill that included tough employer sanctions and several thousand new border patrol guards. Unlike McCain, Cornyn, Kennedy and others who are trying to pull another bait and switch on us I'm convinced the Gipper would recognize the scam for what it was and not do it again.
Um, high-five anyone?
Over one million people have been coming here illegally (and then breeding like rabbits) every year for decades and the gov't expects us to believe there are only 9 to 13 million here total? Triple/quadruple those figures for accuracy.
The fact that the largest rate of increase has come after 9/11 is simply inexcusable.
Gee, how long has Dubya Bush been President??
My thoughts exactly.
Just what I was thinkin'...
But at least for the most part they'll wind up as a GOP constituency /sarc
Send them home.
We are overpopulated.
Yep, after the amnesty they'll all be so grateful to President Bush for his compassion there'll be stampede to register as Elephants to show their appreciation. ....and then the GOP will have won over the vast majority of the formerly Rat-dominated constituency. Rove is a genius, amigo.
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