Chain Migration: How Immigration Begets More Immigration
Just over 1.05 million new legal permanent immigrants were admitted to the United States in 2015 – a slight increase of 34,000 over the prior year, according to figures recently released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).1 The total number of new immigrants admitted in the last decade is just over 12.8 million. Legal immigration’s contribution to the U.S. population in the last decade is roughly the equivalent of adding a…
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ALL IN THE FAMILY: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version ALL IN THE FAMILY: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth INTRODUCTION AND KEY FINDING In 2015 the United States set a record for the largest number of immigrants in its population. By the second quarter of this year, the size of the total immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached …
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All in the Family: Preferences for Relatives Drive U.S. Immigration and Population Growth
By Jessica Vaughan Introduction and Key Findings The United States has just concluded the largest decade of immigration in its history. From 2000-2009 more than 10 million legal immigrants settled here.1 This surpasses the levels of both the early 20th century, which for a long time was the high water mark of immigration to the United States, and the 1990s, …
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