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Title: New Illegal Immigrants to U.S. Surpass Legal Immigrants Destinations of New Immigrants Have Broadened
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy ... /09/27/AR2005092700735_pf.html
Published: Sep 27, 2005
Author: D'Vera Cohn
Post Date: 2005-09-27 11:29:05 by Zipporah
Keywords: Destinations, Immigrants, Immigrants
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Comments: 6
The number of new illegal immigrants to the United States surpassed the number of authorized immigrants from 1999 through at least last year, according to a study based on government statistics that was released today by the Pew Hispanic Center. The study said that immigration to the United States-- legal and illegal, from all regions of the world-- rose during the 1990s, peaked in 2000 and declined substantially since 2001 as the national economy slowed. The number of new arrivals rose in 2004, as economic conditions improved, the study said. Although, the arrival of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants declined with the economic downturn, the number of legal immigrants declined more sharply, the study said. Fewer legal immigrants arrived in 2003 and 2004 than in the mid-1990s, the study said, while the number of new illegal immigrants has settled back to about the same level as in the mid-1990s. More than 34 million immigrants now live in the United States, and make up 12 percent of the nation's population, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. The number has more than tripled since 1970, when the foreign-born population numbered 9.6 million. In the Washington area, one in six residents was born in another country. The Pew Center report, which tracked immigration year by year using Census Bureau surveys, said that the number of new immigrants grew very gradually in the early and mid-1990s, from slightly more than a million a year in 1992 to 1.2 million in 1997. But as the economy expanded in the late 1990s, the number of new immigrants increased dramatically, to 1.5 million in 1999 and 2000. Since then, as the economy deflated, the number of new immigrants fell back to about 1.1 million in 2003, about the same level as in the mid-1990s. But the report said it appears that immigration rose again since then, especially from Mexico and Latin America. The destinations of new immigrants have broadened, the report noted. A smaller share now heads for the traditional gateways of New York and California, the study said, while more now go to "new settlement states" such as Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, Utah and Delaware. Although the report did not break out totals for the Washington area, the report's co-author, Jeffrey S. Passel, said he does not think new immigration to this area declined as much as it did in other parts of the country since the peak in 2000. This region also is attracting a growing number of immigrants who came first to other areas, then moved here to take jobs or join family members.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
These illegals will make fine American citizens. They've already learned the first lesson of living in America: "Rules are for fools, laws are for losers. Losers obey the law, winners make their own law." They'll do fine.
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#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
Such vast amounts of unregulated immigration will have (has had) a devastating effect on our society. We have limited means of integrating these folks into our society (those who even WANT to be integrated) and we simply don't have enough lower middle class or middle class jobs to sustain them. We have a plethora of poverty jobs - picking vegetables, domestic servants, cleaning toilets, fast food workers, etc - but it's almost impossible for people to rise out of those jobs as you don't make enough to save and education becomes increasingly debt based and out of reach. Our overlords insist that these folks are doing jobs "americans won't do" - not true in and of itself, howevevr for how many GENERATIONS will these illegals continue to do these jobs? Do people come here with the expectation that their grandchildren will STILL be picking fruit or cleaning toilets or do they want, expect and ultimately will DEMAND something more? Those manufacturing jobs that created the middle class just ain't there any more.
#3. To: mehitable (#2)
Working is for suckers. Crime is where it's at nowadays. Remember, rules are for fools and laws are for losers. Winners make their own laws and their own rules, and live by the only real law in this world: "Might Makes Right". You'll see, over the next twenty years criminals are going to be the big winners in this "society", and law-abiding citizens i.e. "suckers" wil take it in the shorts. Rules are for fools, laws are for losers, might makes right.
| Gold and silver are real money, paper is but a promise. |
#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
I think that's been true for a long time in this country. Don Corleone didn't become so popular cause of his pretty face.
#5. To: mehitable (#2)
That's why it's allowed. Nothing will work better to put us down with central and south American as the destruction of our society. The globalists and the neoCons know that. Banana Republic,here we come.
Such vast amounts of unregulated immigration will have (has had) a devastating effect on our society.
#6. To: Grumble Jones (#5)
They might be miscalculating though as the more desperate people become (through poverty and the inability to move up) the more they might be inclined towards violence and fighting the government. They may find that the Mexican peasants they look down on will actually end up kicking their asses in a couple of generations. Perhaps the illegal immigration has kept the pressure cooker open on Mexico itself, but once these people realize they have an inherited status as Toilet Cleaners of America, they might start revolting. Nothing is as easy as the neo-cons think.
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