Legal immigration statistics
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By 1993, a national poll found that two-thirds of the public believed that most immigrants came into the U.S. illegally (Nelson, 1993). But the most careful demographic estimates put the annual inflow of the undocumented at 200,000 to 300,000: that is, only about one-fifth of total (legal plus illegal) immigration.
[DOC File]The Historical Regulation of International Migration:
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Beyond legal immigration, the eight-title Act dealt with many other aspects of immigration law ranging from non-immigrants to criminal aliens to naturalization. Major changes relating to legal immigration included an increase in total immigration under an overall flexible cap, an increase in annual employment-based immigration from 54,000 to ...
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“Illegal immigration” refers to the actions of people crossing the national border into the United States in a manner that violates the immigration laws or staying in the country past the parameters of a legal entry. Overall, immigration (legal and illegal) is usually an ascending move--that is, from a poorer to a richer living situation ...
[DOCX File]The Path Forward for Immigration
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that there are about 13.1 million legal permanent residents of the United States, and 495,000 workers were admitted with H-1B visas in 2011. Rytina, Nancy, “Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2011,” Department of Homeland Security, July 2012, p. 1,
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It will be easier to keep accurate immigration statistics with this information (“Why the Federal Government…”). It also encourages illegal immigrants to value and follow U.S. laws and work towards attaining legal status in this country (Kimer), which according to some would dramatically decrease the death toll at the border.
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The law not only increased the rate of legal immigration—from 297,000 in 1965 to 850,000 in 2000, the most recent year for which statistics are available—it also produced a dramatic shift in the immigrants’ country of origin. Prior to 1965, nine out of 10 legal immigrants to the US were from Europe or Canada.
[DOC File]The Pros and Cons of Illegal Immigrants
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Moderate conservatives and populists will favor restricting illegal immigration while paying lip-service to allowing legal immigration. The result is the same as moderates in favor of immigration: calls for separating out legal immigration from illegal, but with a focus on enforcement against illegals instead of a focus on respecting immigrant ...
[DOC File]Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
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These laws affect all immigrants: legal permanent residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people. Current immigration laws have greatly expanded the types of crimes for which legal and undocumented immigrants are being detained and deported, without judges being able to consider the circumstances of each case.
Rethinking Crime and Immigration
Now imagine a nearly opposite, fact-based scenario. Consider that immigration-even if illegal-is associated with lower crime rates in most disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Or that increasing immigration tracks with the broad reduction in crime the United States has witnessed since the 1990s.
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