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The U.S. provides employment-based green cards to 140,000 people a year, with each country limited to 7,000 visas.
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Refugees make up about 10% of the immigrants who come to the United States each year. (Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2008)
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Estimates place the total number of fugitive immigrants in 2008 at just under 573,000 -- a decrease of more than 59,000 since October 2006.
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More than 39,000 immigrants who are members of the U.S. military service have been naturalized since 2001 (Chicago Tribune)
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Up to 700,000 Israelis are currently living abroad, about 450,000 of them in the US
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Immigrant entrepreneurial activity grew from 0.37 percent in 2006 to 0.46 percent in 2007. The rate of activity for native-born Americans remained flat at 0.27 percent, according to a new study from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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25 percent of U.S. technology and engineering start-ups were founded by immigrants
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Haitians and Jamaicans accounted for 349,571 of the 523,964 West Indians, with Haitians having the lion's share of 183,173 and Jamaicans 166,398.
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The Immigration & Customs Enforcement reported a 44 percent increase in deportations in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
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The number of people who legally immigrated to the U.S. dropped 17 percent from 2006 to 2007 (Associated Press)
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84% of Hispanic voters in U.S. say illegal immigrants should be allowed to get drivers' licenses (Synovate Research)
84% of Hispanic voters in U.S. say illegal immigrants should be allowed to get drivers' licenses. That is in sharp contrast to whites, blacks and Asians on the same question. Less than 20% of non-Hispanic voters agreed that illegal immigrants should be permitted to get licenses. On most issues except immigration, however, Hispanic voters largely echo the views of whites, black, and Asians, according to a new poll from Synovate Research. (U.S. News & World Reports, March 28, 2008) (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
A 2007 study found that 82 percent of Arkansas immigrant children from Mexico and Central America have at least one parent with Limited English Proficiency, and 58 percent have two parents with that federal designation.
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Most of the applicants for the US visa lottery in 2006 were from Africa and Asia. 19 percent were from Europe and 2 percent from South America and the Caribbean. The largest numbers of applications came from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ukraine.
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The State Department received more than 6 million applications for the visa lottery in 2006, about one million higher than the year before. The people who applied in 2006 were entering the 2008 visa program.
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The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, also known as the visa lottery, is open only to people born in countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. These countries must have sent fewer than fifty thousand immigrants in the past five years.
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The United States offers about 55,000 diversity visas, also known as "visa lottery," every year. In 2006, more than 44,000 winners became permanent residents.
The winners, their spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 get a chance for permanent residency. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
216,000 refugees and asylees became permanent residents in 2006.
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One million and two hundred thousand people received permanent residency in 2006. More than sixty percent of them became permanent residents as a result of a family relationship.
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In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act to build hundreds of kilometers of additional fencing along the southern border. The reasoning goes that secure borders with Mexico and Canada will help keep out illegal immigrants.
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The U.S. is one of only 13 countries in the world to have enacted a ban on foreign visitors and immigrants with HIV. The other countries are Armenia, Brunei, China, Iraq, Qatar, South Korea, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
The Immigration and Nationality Act requires that persons found to have a disease within that category cannot be admitted into the U.S. and must be deported if discovered already in the country. Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
The US enacted a 1993 law banning foreign visitors and immigrants with HIV.
The 1993 law amended the existing U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act by designating "infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome" as a communicable disease of "public health significance." (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
45 percent of Mexican immigrants in Texas now settle in the cities of Dallas, Houston and Austin.
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In 2007, the 65,000 quota for H1-B visas was filled on the first day applications were accepted.
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One quarter of all start-up US engineering and technology firms created between 1995 and 2005 had at least one foreign-born founder.
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Launched in 1990, the H-1B visa program allows foreign scientists, engineers and technologists to be employed for up to six years, at the end of which they must obtain a permanent residency or return home.
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FBI statistics suggest a 35 percent increase in hate crimes against Latinos between 2003 and 2006.
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From 1999 to 2006, border counties spent $1.2 billion in law enforcement costs on illegal immigrants.
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For the nation's 24 border counties in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, the costs related to illegal immigration in fiscal 2006 were $192 million, more than double the costs in 1999.
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In the four border counties in Arizona, costs increased 39 percent, from $19.2 million in fiscal 1999 to $26.6 million in fiscal 2006, according to researchers at the University of Arizona and San Diego State University.
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The average low skill immigrant households imposed a net fiscal burden on state and local government of $8,836 per year.
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In FY 2004, at the state and local level, the average low skill immigrant household received $14,145 in benefits and services and paid only $5,309 in taxes.
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Counties along the Mexican border spent $1.23 billion processing illegal immigrants through their justice systems between 1999 and 2006.
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Federal authorities have a policy of not enforcing immigration laws on school grounds.
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A 1982 Supreme Court ruling guarantees children who are in the U.S. illegally the right to a public education, and says schools cannot inquire about their immigration status.
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American taxpayers kicked in $20.6 million by 2008 to Boeing Co. for Project 28, a high-tech virtual fence along a small stretch of the international border in Arizona.
The virtual fence project was part of a $1.2 billion immigration bill passed by Congress that emphasized building 700 miles or so of fencing along the border with Mexico. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
In the 2000, 18 percent of people in the United States over the age of five spoke a language other than English at home. By 2006, the Census Bureau says the number was 20 percent.
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In 2007, 650,000 immigrants became American citizens.
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The U.S. is the rare country that gives immediate citizenship to the children born inside its borders, whether their immigrant parents are legal residents or not.
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An estimated 5 million children -- including 3 million American citizens -- have parents who are illegal immigrants.
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The cost of the U.S.'s deportation flights jumped from $96 million in the 2007 fiscal year to $135 million in the 2008 fiscal year. That works out to just over $600 per deportee.
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The U.S. government used a fleet of planes to send home nearly 72,000 illegal immigrants, including about 14,100 criminals, to Central and South America in the 2007 fiscal year.
That compares with 50,000 immigrants, including about 9,600 criminals, removed in 2006. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
First-generation Mexican immigrants were 45% less likely to engage in violence than third-generation Americans.
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While the number of illegal immigrants in the country doubled between 1994 and 2005, violent crime declined by nearly 35% and property crimes by 26% over the same period.
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U.S.-born men ages 18-39 are five times more likely to be incarcerated than are their foreign-born peers.
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New research shows that immigrants in California are far less likely than U.S.-born Californians are to commit crime.
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The New York Archdiocese, whose jurisdiction includes the three boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, as well as seven counties outside the city, numbers 2.5 million Catholics, an estimated 23 percent of whom are foreign-born.
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From 1990 to 2005, Tennessee experienced the fourth fastest rate of immigrant growth of any state in the country. Nashville experienced a three-fold increase in foreign-born residents - from 12,662 to 39,596 - according to the last U.S. Census Report.
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Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States and was one of only five cities in the country where Iraqi expatriates could cast their ballots in the 2005 Iraqi elections.
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With the death of the Immigration Reform bill in 2007, the possibility of an increase in the cap for H-1B visas also died. Companies have been turning to the L-1 visa, as a way to bring in guest workers that were unable to get in under the H-1B cap.
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The number of immigrants who were admitted for lawful permanent residence in the U.S. in 2003 was 705,827.
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The Hispanic population in Virginia tripled between 1990 and 2006, with more than 460,000 Hispanic citizens and immigrants living in the commonwealth, according to a study released by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
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Protestants are on the verge of becoming a minority in the United States, a country they helped to found, as immigration reshapes the religious landscape and people change creed or drop religion altogether.
The number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51 percent, compared to nearly two-thirds of the population in the 1960s. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
Nearly 1.4 million naturalization applications were filed in fiscal 2007, which ran from October 1 to September 30, almost twice as many as during the previous year.
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A sharp fee hike and interest in voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, triggered a surge in naturalization applications in 2007 and lengthened processing delays.
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There are about 200 million migrants in the world - probably a record, demographers say, in both relative and absolute terms - and more than 80 percent live outside the United States.
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The US built a "virtual fence" was built near Nogales, Ariz., by Boeing, covering a 28-mile stretch of the US-Mexico border. The $20 million project of sensor towers and advanced mobile communications is to fight illegal crossings all along the frontier.
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The Texas comptroller's office undertook a study of immigration impact and concluded the 1.4 million illegals in the state produced a revenue gain of $424.7 million. Their absence would mean a $17.7 billion economic loss to Texas.
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Specialists believe that 55 percent of illegal immigrants work in jobs where taxes and Social Security are paid.
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The amount invested in the USA through the EB-5 visa program. an obscure investor visa catergory, should reach $1 billion in 2008. The visa requires an investment of at least $500,000 into one of 16 or more Regional Centers around the country and designed
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Legislatures in 46 states adopted 244 immigration-related measures in 2007, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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After passing tough immigration laws, Oklahoma and Arizona saw an exodus of illegal immigrants through declines in school enrollments, a scarcity of construction workers and the sudden emptying of rental homes and apartments.
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Vietnamese who entered the U.S. illegally after the former foes normalized relations in 1995 could now be forced to return to their birth country. Vietnam had previously been reluctant to accept citizens back, and community leaders in the U.S. said many i
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Each year, 66,000 visas are designated for temporary workers in non-agricultural labor. They're called H-2B visas.
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Non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 percent of U.S. population growth.
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About 150 million migrant workers worldwide labor outside their countries of origin and send money home. The year 2007 saw an estimated $240 billion in remittances - a record - reach the developing world, with roughly $90 billion from the US alone.
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Indians made up 44 percent of H-1B (America's work visa) applicants in the 2005-06 fiscal year, five times the number from second-place China.
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There are 2,70,000 unauthorized Indians in the United States - a 125 percent jump since 2000, the largest percentage increase of any nation with more than 100,000 illegal immigrants.
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Africans who immigrate to the United States contribute 40 times more wealth to the American economy than to the African economy. According to the United Nations, an African professional working in the United States contributes about $150,000 per year to i
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By 2050, nearly one in five of the projected 438 million Americans is expected to be foreign-born, a proportion higher than at any other time in U.S. history. (Union-Tribune, Feb. 12, 2008)
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In September 2006, Harris County (in Houston, Texas) jailers began to ask all non-citizens booked into the jail if they were in the country legally, and about 5,500 a year admit they are undocumented. (Houston Chronicle, Feb. 6, 2008)
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From 1882 to 1943 people perceived as being of Chinese origin were barred from immigration into the US under the Chinese Exclusion Laws. It remains the only exclusion based on race, rather than nationality, the US has ever enacted.
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While federal immigration authorities arrested nearly four times as many people at workplaces in 2007 as they did in 2005, only 2 percent of those arrests involved criminal charges against the employers responsible for hiring workers.
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One in three immigrants, and one in 25 U.S. residents, are here illegally.
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Roughly 30% of voters in New York City are foreign born.
This according to John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. (New York Times, Feb. 3, 2008) (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
A church in Chicago has provided material and moral sanctuary to illegal immigrants who are refusing deportation orders from the United States; once in 2006 and again in 2008 (Foxnews.com, Jan. 31, 2008).
The church's pastor, Rev. Walter Coleman, has defended his recurring choice to provide shelter for illegal immigrants running from the law: "I fear God more than Homeland Security." (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
The median salary for short-term undocumented workers in America is about $350 a week, half what legal immigrants (with green cards) earn, according to the Pew Hispanic Center (Jan 29, 2008)
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Nationally, 82 percent of Americans do not think the government is doing enough to control illegal immigration, according to a 2007 New York Times/CBS poll.
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It will take an average of 18 months to process petitions from legal immigrants applying for citizenship between 2008 and 2010, compared to seven months or fewer in 2007, the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services said.
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In 2006, immigration lawyers identified 125 people in dentention centers with valid U.S. citizenship claims.
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U.S. government mistakenly detains and sometimes deports American citizens -- Man born in Minnesota delcared illegal immigrant from Russia (McClathy Washington Bureau, Jan. 24, 2008)
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Desperate to curb the large influx of illegal aliens that have taken a toll on schools and other public services, officials in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch first passed a law barring apartment rentals to illegal immigrants in November 2006.
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According to the state comptroller's office, illegal immigration drained hundreds of millions from local governments in fiscal year 2005 but provided a boost of nearly $17.7 billion to the state. (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 27, 2008)
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Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the Texas workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, according to an analysis of 2005 U.S. Census data. That's nearly twice the national average of about 5 percent. (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 27, 2008)
Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the Texas workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, according to an analysis of 2005 U.S. Census data by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center done for The Dallas Morning News. That's nearly twice the national average of about 5 percent. (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 27, 2008) (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
More than 80 foreign-born widows across the U.S. face possible deportation because their immigration paperwork was not approved before their American husbands' deaths (Associated Press, August 2007)
Permanent residency (a "green card") is also generally denied to immigrants whose U.S. citizen spouse dies within two years of the marriage (Associated Press, August 2007) (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Here
On Oct. 1, 2007, 10,000 Liberians in the United States will lose their refugee status and face deportation because U.S. officials have deemed their homeland safe for return. (Gerry Smith, "Liberian refugees fear return to nation," More)
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Unlike other countries, the U.S. bases taxation on citizenship, not on residency, prompting Americans living abroad to consider renouncing their citizenship to avoid paying taxes in two countries (International Herald Tribune, Dec. 18,2006)
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In 2005, an estimated 52 million people in the US spoke a language other than English at home and almost 30 percent of the non-English speakers in the United States live in California (San Francisco Chronicle).
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While dual citizenship is legal under U.S. law, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship (US State Department).
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The United States is testing a new citizenship test that focuses more on values and principles than on historical trivia (The Australian, Dec. 1, 2006)
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168,000 girls and women in the U.S. alone have undergone circumcision (Associated Press, Oct. 28, 2006)
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Illegal aliens in the U.S. are arrested an average of 8 times each, 45 % for drug or immigration offenses (U.S. General Accountability Office [GAO], May 9, 2005)
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There are 3.4 million foreign-born residents in New York City, and an additional 500,000 undocumented immigrants (Associated Press, Nov. 5, 2006)
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12% of U.S. residents (or 34.3 million people) are foreign-born (Bloomberg News, Oct. 17, 2006)
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An estimated 90 countries now permit dual citizenship, including the United States and most European countries (CBC News, Nov. 7, 2006)
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There are an estimated 42 million Latinos in the U.S., almost 60 percent of them of Mexican descent (Dallas Monring News, Oct. 11, 2006)
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Illegal immigrants constitute about 4.9% of the US workforce (CNN.com)
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56% of the illegal immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico (CNN.com)
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10-12 % of all medical students in the U.S. are Indians (AP, Oct. 2006)
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The United States gains an immigrant every 31 seconds (Bloomberg News, Oct. 17, 2006)
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According to the 1970 population census, there were only 9.6 million Hispanics living in the U.S. Today there are roughly 43 million (WDC Media News).
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In 1970, immigrants constituted less than 5 percent of the U.S. population; today, immigration represents over half of U.S. population growth (Population Reference Bureau)
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The U.S. Census Bureau projects that immigration will increase the US population from its present 300 million to more than 400 million within the next 50 years ( Center for Immigration Studies)
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US have received 25.500 asylim applications (19%) followed by France (16.400), the UK (13.900), Germany (10.600) and Canada (10.100) (UNHCR, Sept 2006)
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During the first 6 months of 2006, the number of asylum applications in industrialised countries decreased by 15% (UNHCR)
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According to the UNFPA refugees now represent 7% of the world migrant population while they composed 11% of this population in 1990 (UNFPA, September 2006)
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In California, the average immigrant household contributes a net $2,679 to Social Security, which is $539 more than the average US-born household (California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative
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In the U.S., the foreign student population is mostly Asian, in particular from Japan, Korea and China
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Of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., almost 600,000 are fugitives from deportation orders (Rocky Mountain News, June 15, 2006)
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15,000 foreign women a year meet their American husbands through for-profit marriage brokers (Washington Post, June 13, 2006)
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About 10,000 U.S. citizens seek visas for their foreign fiances (Washington Post, June 13, 2006)
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About 50% of Colorado's immigrant population is illegal (Rocky Mountain News, June 11, 2006)
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1.2 million immigrants were deported from the U.S. in 2004 (Congressional Research Service, April 2006)
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Nearly 30,000 investor (E2) visas were issued in the U.S. in 2005 (Washington Post, June 10, 2006)
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France - more foreign students from North Africa and Middle-East than from the U.S. (French Higher Council for Integration, 2003)
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The idea of illegal immigration emerged from the National Origin Act of 1924 (Journal and Courrier, June 4, 2006)
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Latino Community to Lauch First Bank in California (Washington Post, June 4, 2006)
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Illegal immigrants in custody - + 60% between october 2004-2005 (Detroit Free Press, June 4, 2006)
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Indian, Filipino Nurses - Largest Beneficiairies of the the New Immigration Bill: +50.000 visa per year ()
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1,000% Increase in Immigration Applications Between 1990 and 2003 (Migration Policy Institute, June 2005)
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Of the 19 million foreign-born employed in the US, 7 million are from Central America, including Mexico (Migration Policy Institute, January 2004)
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War in Iraq - 16,000 foreign-born soldiers granted citizenship (Migration Policy Institute, May 2005)
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5% of the US Armed Service is foreign-born (Migration Policy Institute)
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Incarceration rate of American-born males, four times higher than for foreign-born (Migration Policy Institute, June 1, 2006)
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70 million in U.S. 1st or 2nd generation American (Migration Policy Institute, June 1, 2006)
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Most legal U.S. immigrants come from 10 countries (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2005)
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Amnesty program to generate more than $35billion if 11m illegals apply(New York Times, May 31, 2006)
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Smuggling - $6,000 from El Salvador to LA (El Paso Times, May 30, 2006)
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Smuggling - $2.500 from Mexico to El Paso (El Paso Times, May 30, 2006)
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Texas law prohibits peace officers from engaging in activities designed to uncover undocumented immigrants (El Paso Times, May 31, 2006)
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Honduras - Remittances from US as nation's biggest source of income (The Boston Globe, May 29, 2006)
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Construction - country's largest employer of illegals , 7.2 m (San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2006)
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North Dakota, Minnesota - Migrants represent third of population growth since 2000 (Associated Press, May 28, 2006)
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UN - The human smuggling business - $10 billion a year (New York Times, May 28 2006)
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Of the 12.5 million restaurant workers in the U.S. , 1.6 million are foreign-born (The Business Journal of Phoenix, May 26, 2006)
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