Thread: U.S. Immigration Nears 8 Million, New High

U.S. Immigration Nears 8 Million, New High
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.



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"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.

The report's estimate of the overall number of immigrants living in the United States is consistent with other analyses. But experts warn that it is difficult to accurately measure the number of people entering the country each year.

A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center found that immigration levels peaked around 2000, then dipped in 2002 and 2003. Nevertheless, Jeffrey Passel, a research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, said immigration levels remained high, compared with historic levels.

Audrey Singer, an immigration fellow at the Brookings Institution, said, "There's no doubt that we are at a high in immigration to the United States." Singer said immigrants are attracted by economic opportunities and social ties to people already living in the United States.

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I've been saying for years:

Our Mass Immigration of the last four decades is at a level that is unprecedented in human history. No nation has ever allowed the kind of immigration we are now allowing. No nation IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS would allow this level of Mass Immigraion. Theres a very obvious reason why no nation in history has ever allowed this level of Mass Immigration. We are going to find out that reason."

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Im new at this so help me out. These immigrants come over here for a reason to work and get jobs. They are hard workers why don't we give them a chance to work make something of themselves and not be on warefare and live off the government.

Hi tish1215. Welcome.

They are hard workers why don't we give them a chance to work make something of themselves and not be on warefare and live off the government.

If the hard workers are legal immigrants, they should have a chance to make something of themselves. But if they're ILLEGAL immigrants, they should go back where they came from and apply to come here legally.

Tish,

Because we only want "hard workers" that also respect our laws, respect our citizens, are clear of communicable diseases before they come, have been screened for past crimes, and are screened for terrorist connections first. That is the law. That is what Americans want.

We are already allowing 1.2 million people to legally immigrate per year which is more than any other nation in the world yet now we are faced with 3 million per year coming illegally.

If you look at our state and national tax deficits, you will see that we are out of cash and living on credit as it is. We do not have the money left to educate, medicated, and engraciate 3 million illegals per year.

Most of us are sorry that these people are coming from horrible areas ruled by gangs and poverty, but that is not our fault and our generocity is being taken advantage of to the extent that America is turning into the kind of place these illegals fled in the first place.

I wont live like that without a fight!

Illegals are not coming just to "work hard" They are coming to TAKE what is not theirs to take without permission.

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