To: Dr. Marten
By historical standards, the 33.1 million immigrants living in the United States is unprecedented. Even at the peak of the great wave of immigration in the early 20th century, the number of immigrants living in the United States was only 40 percent of what it is today (13.5 million in 1910).Pathetic article. Comparing populations figures in absolute terms when the US population is MUCH higher now than in 1910. The 33.1 to 13.5 comparison is meaningless. Also the article lumps legal and illegal immigrants together in all the stats. This, too, creates meaningless stats. Tech workers from Europe and day laborers are not really interchangable. Lumping them together obscures facts rather than revealing them.
2 posted on
04/24/2006 11:13:05 AM PDT by
Onelifetogive
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To: Dr. Marten
3 posted on
04/24/2006 5:27:41 PM PDT by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: Dr. Marten
"By historical standards, the 33.1 million immigrants living in the United States is unprecedented. Even at the peak of the great wave of immigration in the early 20th century, the number of immigrants living in the United States was only 40 percent of what it is today (13.5 million in 1910)."Interesting.
4 posted on
04/24/2006 5:30:54 PM PDT by
TAdams8591
(Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: Dr. Marten
Mixing the numbers of illegal and legal immigrants makes this information useless.
5 posted on
04/25/2006 1:42:34 PM PDT by
Serenissima Venezia
(Stop the “No Illegal Alien Left Behind Act” – call/email/fax/write your Senators today!)
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