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.
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They will want voting rights, welfare, and then they will demand citizenship, and open borders.
America will then slowly morph into a third world, banana republic.
Look back at the article and you will notice the growth in Arkansas. Overall, those numbers don't look to large, but in actuality, most of the illegal growth is along the state's western edge where they are processing chickens and building the boom in the NW corridor. So that growth is confined to a narrow area.
Illegals are a terrible negative on our culture, language, and respect for the rule of law.
Read "The Discourses" by Machiavelli. In that book he shows how a republic is quick to ruination when it fails to uphold and execute the established laws.
Our refusal to enforce the law in this area is having a terrible impact.
What's new is that they aren't paying. That's why they are closing down. No business closes down because it has too many paying customers.
What also is new, is that a lot of paying customers are leaving. The customers who remain are going to have to pay more to take up the slack -- except the ones who don't pay.
We have had a guest worker program since 1952.
We have ag worker visas, non-ag worker visas, tech worker visas, nurse visas, and crew worker visas.
What impact? Things have never been better.
I've posted the links, just look!
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Still a bad idea. Even worse in this day and age.
This is one way empires decline. People get greedy. They bring foreigners in to work because they are lazy and then pretty soon they've lost their country.
If you think that it is bad because there are too many mexicans, just wait until there are not enough mexicans.
I thought about this very thing this morning as I was listening to talk radio discussing Hilary's advocating for felons having voting rights.
She's a couple steps ahead here.
Sorry, I don't consider a boom in population of illegals to be a good thing. California is rife with corruption and is running a huge deficit and they may never dig out of it.
One way to measure the relative success of two places is the "gate test". If you open a gate, which way do people move?
U-Haul rates are a good way to measure how attractive immigration has made California to the rest of the country:
"...while it costs $1,080 to rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck for a one-way trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the rental going in the opposite direction is just $133.
"To economist Brian Wesbury, the difference implies that people are moving out of California as opportunity diminishes and the economic slump persists. Here are a few more telling comparisons, as reported in the Financial Post: A one-way U-Haul move from Los Angeles to Phoenix costs $837 while the return costs $116. San Francisco to Boise: $2,024. Return trip: $310. But look at the Midwest and the rate differentials practically disappear. A U-Haul rental from Chicago and Detroit costs $419, while the return is $449.
"Obviously, California is having a hard time keeping U-Haul trucks in the state," wrote Mr. Wesbury in a note to clients. "
Question for you: California's population is about 1/4 foreign born immigrants. If immigration is so good for the economy, why are people leaving for other states and why aren't people from other states moving to California?
HOAG
Wow, that one really takes the prize. Is anybody writing this stuff down?
Blame the people who are fleeing from this madness. You know what? That's exactly what the Soviet Union did. Before they collapsed, the Soviets blamed the people who were leaving and so they built the Iron Curtain, a wall around the country to keep the productive people enslaved.
I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to "Azlatan".
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=9415
No sh*t! Then you really ARE a sign twirler!
Are you serious? Do you actually believe that Mexicans are a net benefit to the US? Tell me this: Mexico has a lot more Mexicans than the US does; if Mexicans are so good for the economy why isn't Mexico rich?
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