WP: New Illegal Immigrants to U.S. Surpass Legal Immigrants

[DeepModem Mom]

New Illegal Immigrants to U.S. Surpass Legal Immigrants
Destinations of New Immigrants Have Broadened
By D'Vera Cohn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 27, 2005


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....

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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....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092700735.html

[rodeodance]

1. Business and they know we need workers in the gulf states.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Yo got that right

See the below article.

Bush, Rove Press Congress on Illegal-Worker Proposal
By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — White House political strategist Karl Rove is offering lawmakers new details of an administration-backed guest worker program that would temporarily legalize the status of millions of illegal workers, according to Republicans who have attended the meetings.

The White House effort is seen as its latest step toward reasserting President Bush's leadership on one of the most divisive issues confronting the Republican Party.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immig23sep23,0,4132562.story?coll=la-home-nation

[msongs]

2. the job of the president is to protect and DEFEND the borders, so...

what has bush baby been doing for 4+ years?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/clark2008.htm

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yeah

Al Qaida just needs to cross the Mexican border.

[Triana]

5. Illegal Mexicans = Cheap Labor and Repub votes....

...or so they hope. Name of the game.

The United States of Mexico..

[VegasWolf]

6. Rove better hope this works since the "wide open borders" policy is

alienating their mohawk, white trash, FReeper base. The will need new voters to replace the ones they are losing.

[Blaq Dem]

8. Wait until those rednecks find out they won't be needed for reconstruction

My crystal ball tells me their will be major uprisings of bigotry against Hispanics in this country. Legal Hispanics are not going to like it.

Make it short, they'll become like the black population when slavery first spread. Republicans just want a new slave class. They don't give a damn about the well being of Latinos.

[TomClash]

7. Business cheers:

Yipee! Cheap labor! No health benefits! No pensions! Fire at will!