Posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:20 PM PST by F16Fighter
The size of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States is probably about 9 million people.
A report released by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in January 2003 estimated the size of the undocumented immigrant population at 7.0 million in 2000. A separate analysis by Jeff Passel of the Urban Institute estimated there were 8.5 million undocumented immigrants in 2000. Passel and others believe that net illegal immigration from Mexico alone has been growing at a rate of 500,000 people annually, which places current estimates at a minimum of 9.0 million unauthorized immigrants.
In the 1990s, the undocumented immigrant population grew by 350,000 per year. According to the INS, from 1990 to 1999, the size of the undocumented immigrant population grew by about 350,000 people per year on average, and by as much as 500,000 people per year in the latter third of the decade.
The states with the largest unauthorized populations are California and Texas. INS estimates show the states that had the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2000 were California (2.2 million) and Texas (1.0 million), followed by New York (0.5 million), Illinois (0.4 million), and Florida (0.3 million). Texas became the second state after California to have over one million unauthorized residents.
Almost one-third of all undocumented immigrants live in California. According to the INS, of all undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2000, 32 percent lived in California, followed by Texas (15 percent), New York (7 percent), Illinois (6 percent), and Florida (5 percent). Combined, these five states accounted for 64 percent of all undocumented migrants.
The states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations in the 1990s were California, Texas, and Illinois, in that order.
INS data show that the states with the largest numerical increases in their unauthorized populations between 1990 and 2000 were California, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York, in that order. Each of these states had increases of morethan 100,000 in the number of unauthorized residents between 1990 and 2000.
Georgia, North Carolina, and Colorado experienced rapid growth in their unauthorized immigrant populations between 1990 and 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, the unauthorized immigrant populations of several states grew rapidly, according to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, including:
Georgia 571 percent (from 34,000 to 228,000)
North Carolina: 692 percent (from 26,000 to 206,000)
Colorado 365 percent (from 31,000 to 144,000)
Seven states that had 10,000 or fewer unauthorized immigrants in 1990 also experienced rapid growth through the decade:
Arkansas 440 percent (from 5,000 to 27,000)
South Carolina 414 percent (from 7,000 to 36,000)
Tennessee 411 percent (from 9,000 to 46,000)
Alabama 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Iowa 380 percent (from 5,000 to 24,000)
Wisconsin 310 percent (from 10,000 to 41,000)
Nebraska 300 percent (from 6,000 to 24,000)
There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000. The five countries of origin with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations are Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, and Honduras.
In 2000, the largest source country for unauthorized immigrants was Mexico (4.8 million), according to the INS. The unauthorized resident population from Mexico increased by 140 percent, from about 2.0 million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2000, according to the INS. Unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 69 percent of the total unauthorized resident population in 2000. In 1990, unauthorized immigrants from Mexico represented 58 percent of the total.
Six other source countries were estimated to have over 100,000 unauthorized immigrants resident in the United States, including El Salvador (189,000), Guatemala (144,000), Colombia (141,000), Honduras (138,000), China (115,000), and Ecuador (108,000). There is no evidence to suggest that this pattern has changed since 2000.
This information was compiled by Elizabeth Grieco, MPI’s Data Manager, in October 2003. For questions or to arrange an interview with a data expert or policy analyst, please contact Colleen Coffey at 202-266-1910 or ccoffey@migrationpolicy.org. Please visit us at www.migrationpolicy.org.
Rhetorical? or looking to get me banned for saying what I think?
So you're OK with crime as long as there are "rich folk" to pay for it?
--Boot Hill
I'll tell you why. It has a bad case of the Mexicans. They are voting for liberal politicians that are bleeding the state dry. They are turning California into another Mexico.
I thought I saw somewhere that your economy is booming. I know your crime is down.
Recorded crime is down because we are putting record numbers of criminals in jail. About two million of them.
The crime of illegally entering the United States is up. But it isn't recorded if they don't catch the creep.
The new hospital gets the patients who can afford to pay for the new equipment or who have good insurance.
Really, how does that work? Are the new hospitals refusing to treat illegals?
It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk.
That's right because, like I said, illegals are driving good people away.
That's what crime does, it destroys wealth. And illegals are criminals.
Hate to tell you this but the total population growth in CA is pulling away from the rest of the states.
As you say, "CA is pulling away from the rest of the states."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328890/posts
Often times they refuse to treat people without excellent insurance or credit cards with large limits.
The federal government requires only that emergency rooms of hospitals that accept Medicare stabilize anyone who is brought in. After they are stable, the hospital has no further obligation unless state law, local laws, or hospital policies require it. (Some are nonprofit charitable organizations)
Like all businesses, some hospitals are willing to take less desirable credit risks. There is nothing unique to illegal laborers and older hospitals closing. Or any type older business closing in light of new competition.
That's right, tons of Mexicans coming across the border, having babies. But it costs a lot more to rent a U-Haul leaving Californian than going there. That's because all the taxpayers are being driven away.
If you take the demographic data in the article and lay it on top of this data, you see two trends. The illegals are going to the states with the highest total growth and to the states with the highest percentage growth.
I'll bet a lot of hospitals will stop accepting Medicare patients.
Like all businesses, some hospitals are willing to take less desirable credit risks.
And those hospitals are going to be pretty bad hospitals. That's why good people are leaving the Southwest.
"It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk."
You really have no concept of healthcare finance do you?
Well, don't FUSS, come up with a viable solution, give it to us and let us email our representatives.
In Georgia, undocumenteds work in chicken houses, are day-laborers, etc. Some are in gangs, some work 6 to 9 months, then go back home for 3 to 6 months and live off what they earned.
Guest-worker Program? YES, BUT the undocumented MUST go back to his/her home Country first and apply for Guest-Worker status. AND, the day the job ends or the worker quits, the worker is escorted back to the border.
That should reduce the undocumented ranks by about a half or two-thirds. AND, NO Undocumented Pregnant Women get Guest-Worker cards.
While we're at it, change the laws regarding US Citizenship. If a baby is born to an Undocumented or a Guest-Worker, that baby is NOT a US Citizen. Only legal resident aliens get the honor and privilege of having their newborns become US Citizens if born in this Country.
Unless the USofA plans to Annex Mexico and Central America, it's time to sweep the undocumenteds back into their own Countries.
And while we're at it, let's start a program to charge the Country the undocumented (aka Illegal Alien) comes from for all medical expenses. We'll take the payment in Oil, I imagine.
Yeah, a bit of sarcasm.
As for your assertion that illegal immigration is putting all the clinics and hospitals along the border out of business, that is incorrect.
As the population in the Mexican border towns has grown rapidly, the mexican residents have put strains on the US medical machine. They have always utilized US facilities, this is not new.
I agree. You can see it around you every day. This nation is changing rapidly. I am sick to my stomach at the lack of any resolve on the part of our representatuves to do something about this.
I urge everyone to read about the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions.
In other words there is so much illegal immigration, it is increasing the population of the states where they go. In California, about 25% of the population is foreign-born.
Give me the name of the hospital and I'll ask them. Some of the very best (if not THE very best) hospitals in America are required to accept a certain percentage of indigents.
The Texas Attorney General had to get onto the largest and best hospital in Houston for not devoting enough resources to indigent care. And people from all over the world fly their private jets to Houston to go to that hospital.
Hospitals don't close because they have too many patients, they close because they don't have enough good paying patients. Don't blame the poor, blame the rich who go elsewhere.
I agree. Most illegals hate this country and care only to bleed it dry. They are rodents of the worst kind and should be sent back and told to apply the legal way, with two sponsors and a job lined up.
People are leaving the Southwest? Since when?
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