US Illegal Immigrant Population Stagnant In 2010
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Immigrants Rights Demonstration in Los Angeles, 2010 (Courtesy of Pan-African News Wire).
Roughly 11.2 million undocumented immigrants are currently living in the U.S., according to a yearly report released by the Pew Hispanic Center.
This stability in 2010 follows a two-year decline from a peak of 12 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2009, the first significant reversal in a two-decade pattern of growth, the report said.
“When the U.S. economy was weakened and unemployment was up, the immigration numbers dropped,” said Jeffrey Passel, Senior Demographer for the Pew Center. “What we think has happened since 2009 is that the economy has improved a little, so we’ve inferred that the inflows have increased a little, and that has caused the numbers to stabilize.”
The findings show that undocumented immigration numbers in the U.S. have leveled off, while totals in Colorado, Florida, New York and Virginia dropped in 2010.
Prior to the late 90s, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. never passed 5 million, Passel said. But those numbers skyrocketed shortly afterward, rising from 8.4 million in 2007 to a high of 12 million in 2007.
The new figures also indicate that the U.S. still has little control of the border, said Jack Martin of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which lobbies for lower immigration levels.
According to USA Today, the Department of Homeland Security deported some 392,000 illegal immigrants in 2010. Martin said that because the number of illegal immigrants did not decrease during that time, it's a clear indication that the border remains out of control.
Researchers say the flow of undocumented immigrants can be explained through economic upswings and hardships, particularly with regard to immigrants from Central America.
(Pew Hispanic Center)
The number of children born to at least one unauthorized-immigrant parent in 2009 was 350,000, essentially the same as it was a year earlier. The report also found that half of the undocumented immigrant population, or 5.5 million, are children, 4.5 million of whom were born in the U.S. and are now citizens.
Passel said the most startling figures came in 2007, when immigrant inflow levels dropped to extremely low levels for the first time in two decades. He said this was a direct result of the U.S. economic recession.
Additionally, undocumented immigrants made up 28 percent of the total immigrant population in the U.S. in 2010, down from a high of 31 percent in 2007. Passel believes, however, that the high number of undocumented workers will not have an impact on the so-called “native workforce.”
“We haven’t seen competition per say between undocumented immigrants and natives,” Passel said. “However, we’re sort of in uncharted waters here. We’ve never had this kind of economy, with high unemployment and sustained job loss. So, it may lead to some competition between the two groups.”
Although the figures provided by the Pew Hispanic Center elucidate trends in composition and size of the U.S. undocumented immigrant population, they are not designed to explain why changes in figures occur.
The Center lists the 2007 global recession – which began in the U.S. economy and officially ended in 2009 – as one reason why the population of undocumented immigrants has decreased since 2007. But recovery has been slow to take hold, unemployment remains high and current figures are not outside of past immigration trends, where numbers decreased because of economic distress, according to the Center’s report.
Data for the report was compiled from Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor statistics between March 2009 to March 2010.
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Our government lies to us incessantly, as you only have to read the Wikileaks website secret documents. So stating that there are only 11 million illegally persons settled here is a blatant rhetoric. An interesting statistic is "How many illegal immigrants have settled in the US, " is an article located in the Christian Science Monitor: http://tinyurl.com/6etlnm Giving low population figures smells of the Liberal progressives in the Obama administration, who have a major problem with speaking the truth. Any newspaper of media source that uses such words as unauthorized immigrant or undocumented worker can be considered a front with a Liberal editorial. Another point of view is that your blog, if it tells the truth about the illegal immigration invasion will never see the light of day. Liberal editors have been programmed to use utter propaganda, which for the life of me affects their intelligence and the fact they think the majority of Americans believe it?
Even the children of today are being indoctrinated with their philosophies, as they try to forward their ideological ideas in the classroom. I keep reading that illegal immigration is good the the economy. So you might ask honest contractors and sub contractors of the building trade, who have lost their businesses because others have used cheap labor and been easily to outbid their jobs that use American workers. This is why a mandatory E-Verify needs to be operated nationwide, to expose illegal workers who are taking US workforce jobs. After the national fence barrier is built securely, as planned in the 2006 Secure Fence Act, we can have honest talks on guest worker requirements for the agricultural industry, plus special immigration visa's for the most highly skilled immigrants, who want to start a new life here.
Of course that might be the case with commerce and all entities that profit from them. Businesses don't see it that way, because illegal labor can be preyed upon, paid minimum wages without any health care? Then guess who pays for that multi-billion dollar venture. The US taxpayers of course! Same with the school for every illegal alien child brought illegally to the US by a parent. It’s the same with every baby who collects an American birth certificate, under the ominous, misinterpreted 14th amendment. Remember that's the first child and unlikely to be the last, collecting nice packages of welfare, cash payments and finally section 8 housing. Then over a period of time, more family escapes their country and cram into the home. If you have a few minutes click on these links, that if the Liberal media allows this commentary to be published The way to stop illegal aliens entering America, is to make it a class one felony with mandatory prison sentences in tent cities as with Arizona's. Sheriff Joe Arpaio. After his bologna sandwiches--few would return across the border, except for the hardened criminals, who are flooding this nation.
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These reports compiles some unfortunate statistics about the birthright law, that outlines the incentives for people stealing into America, that a prudent person should investigate.. http://tinyurl.com/48gpodm This become unfair game to the despondent US Taxpayer as the 14th Amendment is costing taxpayers billions of dollars annually, that should be going to our poor, our senior citizens, our homeless veterans, our single Mothers with children, our mentally handicapped, the old, blind and sick. http://tinyurl.com/46ffz6g and http://tinyurl.com/48bkx23 and http://tinyurl.com/45kopdl Until the Liberal extremists cut off our right to "Free Speech" or introduce the "Fairness Doctrine" I will bring to America's attention to the dangers of illegal immigration, chain migration and amnesty and its rapidly spiraling entitlement costs. Here are the projections of instant baby citizenship costs of the huge inflow of women 9 month pregnant females and ready to conceive, arriving from every country from one hemisphere to the other, getting free prenatal care, welfare. http://tinyurl.com/2upevd And http://tinyurl.com/4pl97mo
Another rip off of America's tax base is the massive fraud of the child tax credit, that the Fed's have done absolutely nothing about? http://tinyurl.com/mhh22q. This is mostly attributed to illegal immigrants who are largely responsible for this silent fraud that our taxes pay for. I have added these new links because there are so many negative points that must be passed on to the Public
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Disgusted by illegal immigration ? Visit the NumbersUSA and the ALIPAC websites and fight against illegal residents. We need federal E-Verify legislation to force employers to check social security numbers.
A few years back I did deep research on the Pew Hispanic Center and discovered it was a product of the open borders Ford Foundation. I was also trying to find out the basis for their 'analysis', and discovered, for example, that they had run a poll, and produced headlines that told us the people of this country supported amnesty for the illegal aliens. Ah yes.. it then turned out that the baseline for the poll was 199 people.
There is little to nothing I read in Pew that I believe. Further, they continue to come up with points whos base we cannot examine. In addition, a good deal that they produce is in contest with reliable, and mature polls without personal stake in the issues.
By the way.. a very conspicuious point to contest their findings would be that no one.. none.. know how many illegal aliens are in this country, and no one knows how many birthright citizens are created every day. But we do know the costs of such births is still very high, and that Pew is probably very wrong.
This is news? "US Illegal Immigration Population Stagnant in 2010"...? Well, I doubt they'll smell any better THIS year.
This is horrible news! If the Obama administration was truly serving American citizens, the headline would read: "US Illegal Immigrant Population Plummeted In 2010".