By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler on December 2, 2018
CIS: Nearly One in Seven U.S. Residents Are Now Immigrants
Center for Immigration Studies
Nearly One in Seven U.S. Residents Are Now Immigrants
Highest foreign-born share in 107 years
September 14, 2018
Washington, D.C. (September 14, 2018) – A report by the Center for Immigration Studies analyzes new data from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS), released by the Census Bureau Thursday, showing the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) has reached 44.5 million – the highest number in U.S. history. Growth was led by immigrants from Latin American countries other than Mexico, as well as Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The number from Mexico, Europe and Canada either remained flat or declined since 2010. The Census Bureau refers to immigrants as the foreign-born population.
“America continues to experience the largest wave of mass immigration in our history. The decline in Mexican immigrants has been entirely offset by immigration from the rest of the world. By 2027, the immigrant share will hit its highest level in U.S. history, and continue to rise,” said Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research and co-author of the report.
Read the Report: https://cis.org/Report/Record-445-Million-Immigrants-2017
Key findings:
- As a share of the U.S. population, immigrants (legal and illegal) comprised 13.7 percent or nearly one out of seven U.S. residents in 2017, the highest percentage since 1910.
- The number of immigrants hit a record 44.5 million in 2017, an increase of nearly 800,000 since 2016, 4.6 million since 2010, and 13.4 million since 2000.
- There were also 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children of immigrants in 2017, for a total of 61.6 million immigrants and their young children in the country — accounting for one in five U.S. residents.
- Between 2010 and 2017, 9.5 million new immigrants settled in the United States. New arrivals are offset by roughly 300,000 immigrants who return home each year and natural mortality of about 300,000 annually. As a result, the immigrant population grew 4.6 million from 2010 to 2017.
- The 9.5 million new arrivals since 2010 roughly equals the entire immigrant population in 1970.
- Of immigrants who have arrived since 2010, 13% or 1.3 million came from Mexico — by far the top sending country. However, because of return migration and natural mortality among the existing population, the overall Mexican-born population actually declined by 441,190.
- The regions with largest numerical increases since 2010 were East Asia and South Asia (each up 1.1 million), the Caribbean (up 676,023), Sub-Saharan Africa (up 606,835), South America (up 483,356), Central America (up 474,504), and the Middle East (472,554).
- The decline in Mexican immigrants masks, to some extent, the enormous growth of Latin American immigrants. If seen as one region, the number from Latin America (excluding Mexico) grew 426,536 in just the last year and 1.6 million since 2010.
- The sending countries with the largest increases in the number immigrants since 2010 were India (up 830,215), China (up 677,312), the Dominican Republic (up 283,381), Philippines (up 230,492), Cuba (up 207,124), El Salvador (up 187,783), Venezuela (up 167,105), Colombia (up 146,477), Honduras (up 132,781), Guatemala (up 128,018), Nigeria (up 125,670), Brazil (up 111,471), Vietnam (up 102,026), Bangladesh (up 95,005), Haiti (up 92,603), and Pakistan (up 92,395).
- The sending countries with the largest percentage increases since 2010 were Nepal (up 120%), Burma (up 95%), Venezuela (up 91%), Afghanistan (up 84%), Saudi Arabia (up 83%), Syria (up 75%), Bangladesh (up 62%), Nigeria (up 57%), Kenya (up 56%), India (up 47%), Iraq (up 45%), Ethiopia (up 44%), Egypt (up 34%), Brazil (up 33%), Dominican Republic and Ghana (up 32%), China (up 31%), Pakistan (up 31%), and Somalia (up 29%).
- The states with the largest increases in the number of immigrants since 2010 were Florida (up 721,298), Texas (up 712,109), California (up 502,985), New York (up 242,769), New Jersey (up 210,481), Washington (up 173,891), Massachusetts (up 172,908), Pennsylvania (up 154,701), Virginia (up 151,251), Maryland (up 124,241), Georgia (up 123,009), Michigan (up 116,059), North Carolina (up 110,279), and Minnesota (up 107,760).
- The states with the largest percentage increase since 2010 were North Dakota (up 87%), Delaware (up 37%), West Virginia (up 33%), South Dakota (up 32%), Wyoming (up 30%), Minnesota (up 28%), Nebraska (up 28%), Pennsylvania (up 21%), Utah (up 21%), Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Washington, and Iowa (each up 20%). The District of Columbia’s immigrant population was up 25%. Read the rest here.
Fast Fact from Gallup: 158 million potential migrants name U.S. as preferred destination – More Than 750 Million Worldwide Would Migrate If They Could
Fast Fact from Gallup: 158 million potential migrants name U.S. as preferred destination – More Than 750 Million Worldwide Would Migrate If They Could
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OPINION: GA state Rep Jeff Jones: Georgia Illegal alien driver’s license/ID reform is past due – from Insider Advantage Georgia #DDS
Insider Advantage Georgia
December 6, 2018
Georgia Illegal alien driver’s license/ID reform is past due
Jeff Jones
For those who are not yet aware, Georgia issues driver’s licenses to non-citizens who, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), do not have legal immigration status.
To increase the “head-scratcher” quotient on this, there is no difference – none — between the driver/ID credentials issued to these lucky illegal aliens and those issued to legal immigrants (green card holders) or foreign students and guest workers who obeyed American law and are here on legal, temporary visas.
While it is illegal for non-citizens to vote in elections in Georgia, state law considers the driver’s licenses and ID Cards we are granting to them to be “proper ID” at our polls.
That’s why I will soon introduce driver’s license/ID reform legislation to change this bizarre situation.
I do not believe – and I have not spoken to many who do believe – that rewarding illegal behavior by officially blurring the lines between legal immigrants and illegal aliens is fair or wise. And It certainly isn’t adding to the public safety of Georgia citizens, or our ballot security.
These drivers licenses and state ID credentials are used as valid ID to enter federal buildings and at our airports to board airliners. As we all see, in 21st century America, the drivers license is our de facto national ID card. Some of the illegal aliens granted these very useful credentials have been convicted of crimes and are under deportation orders. Many others have been granted a deferral on deportation proceedings, most of them by the Obama administration.
Under the Gold Dome, when the details of a subject are difficult to easily or quickly understand, too often that issue is ignored or passed over. Illegal alien driver’s license/ID credential reform should not be put off any longer.
It is important to understand that states have full control and authority over how and to whom they issue driver’s licenses and official ID Cards. It is also imperative to know that federal law (REAL ID Act of 2005) sets certain standards and requirements for states to follow if the state’s credentials are to be accepted for federal ID use. The federal compliance requirements are only related to the federal acceptance as valid ID.
The REAL ID Act says that illegal aliens who have a delay or deferral on deportation can use that temporary condition as evidence of lawful status and may be granted a REAL ID Act compliant driver’s license and/or an official ID card. It is important to understand that the law does not require any state – including Georgia– to do this.
So as to avoid confusion or alternate reality on the facts here, I quote the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
“The REAL ID Act establishes minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum standards.” (here)
Other states — including Michigan, South Carolina, California, and recently, Massachusetts — issue driver’s licenses that are not intended to be and are not REAL ID Act compliant along with the compliant documents. There is a visible difference in the two types of cards.
While I join the large majority of Georgians who do not want any illegal aliens to receive any kind of official state ID or drivers license,…read the rest here.
Illegal alien families shatter records in November – “the 25,000 family “units,” as they’re called, are by far a record, far surpassing the heights of the Obama years”
Washington Times
Stephen Dinan
Illegal immigrant families shatter records in November
December 6, 2018
“Illegal immigration ticked up in November, but the number of those people traveling as families shattered records, Homeland Security reported Thursday, saying it’s proof that migrants have figured out how to game the flawed U.S. immigration system.
More than 25,000 people who came as part of families were snared by Border Patrol agents sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico line, and nearly 5,000 more were encountered at official border crossings where they demanded entry.
Nearly 5,300 more children traveling without parents were also caught jumping the border, the government said.
The 25,000 family “units,” as they’re called, are by far a record, far surpassing the heights of the Obama years.” Read the rest here.
90,000 Illegal Aliens Have Come to America Since the Caravan Formed in October
“Since the caravan formed in mid-October, we’ve seen 90,000 people come to our border. Eighty-five percent of those crossing illegally between ports of entry and all lured by the fact that our legal framework has huge gaps that create the opportunity to stay in the U.S. while awaiting a court hearing even if they don’t a lawful permission or protection claim,…”
Townhall
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Posted: Dec 04, 2018
90,000 Illegal Aliens Have Come to America Since the Caravan Formed in October
As the situation in Tijuana, Mexico continues to deteriorate as thousands of illegal aliens wait to gain access to the United States, the crisis continues along many different sectors of the border.
This week in Yuma, a number of individuals were caught dropping children over the border fence. Thousands of illegal aliens from Central America have flooded into the country since October.
“We have a challenging and still potentially volatile situation in Tijuana. We’ve got well over 7,000 migrants there. They’re well organized and brought to the border by a group and we told they would be able to cross easily into the U.S. to present an asylum claim. That is not the case,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in an interview Tuesday morning.”We do see individuals trying to cross illegally in the San Diego sector, we are addressing that activity and then of course you saw the scenes of the family literally dropping children over the fence. That was in the Yuma Sector in Arizona, also interdicted and apprehended by Border Patrol agents.”
“Since the caravan formed in mid-October, we’ve seen 90,000 people come to our border. Eighty-five percent of those crossing illegally between ports of entry and all lured by the fact that our legal framework has huge gaps that create the opportunity to stay in the U.S. while awaiting a court hearing even if they don’t a lawful permission or protection claim,” he continued. “It’s a huge challenge that we need to work with Congress to address…We’ve got criminal organizations profiting off of vulnerable families, charging $5000-$7000 per person. That’s a $2.5 billion business of exploitation and we’ve got to stop it.”
Fast Fact: Medicaid use by aliens in the U.S. is more than double that of native born
Rates of welfare use by household type:
Any welfare: – Non-citizens=63% – Native-born= 35%
Food stamps: – Non-citizens=45% – Native-born=21%
Medicaid: – Non-citizens=50% – Native-born=23%
Somebody please send us a note if you see this in the Associated Press or the AJC? (as if).
63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs – Compared to 35% of native households
Center for Immigration Studies
CIS.org
63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs
Compared to 35% of native households
Download a PDF of this Backgrounder.
Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center.
New “public charge” rules issued by the Trump administration expand the list of programs that are considered welfare, receipt of which may prevent a prospective immigrant from receiving lawful permanent residence (a green card). Analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) shows welfare use by households headed by non-citizens is very high. The desire to reduce these rates among future immigrants is the primary justification for the rule change. Immigrant advocacy groups are right to worry that the high welfare use of non-citizens may impact the ability of some to receive green cards, though the actual impacts of the rules are unclear because they do not include all the benefits non-citizens receive on behalf of their children and many welfare programs are not included in the new rules. As welfare participation varies dramatically by education level, significantly reducing future welfare use rates would require public charge rules that take into consideration education levels and resulting income and likely welfare use.
Of non-citizens in Census Bureau data, roughly half are in the country illegally. Non-citizens also include long-term temporary visitors (e.g. guestworkers and foreign students) and permanent residents who have not naturalized (green card holders). Despite the fact that there are barriers designed to prevent welfare use for all of these non-citizen populations, the data shows that, overall, non-citizen households access the welfare system at high rates, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children.
Among the findings:
- In 2014, 63 percent of households headed by a non-citizen reported that they used at least one welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native-headed households.
- Welfare use drops to 58 percent for non-citizen households and 30 percent for native households if cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are not counted as welfare. EITC recipients pay no federal income tax. Like other welfare, the EITC is a means-tested, anti-poverty program, but unlike other programs one has to work to receive it.
- Compared to native households, non-citizen households have much higher use of food programs (45 percent vs. 21 percent for natives) and Medicaid (50 percent vs. 23 percent for natives).
- Including the EITC, 31 percent of non-citizen-headed households receive cash welfare, compared to 19 percent of native households. If the EITC is not included, then cash receipt by non-citizen households is slightly lower than natives (6 percent vs. 8 percent).
- While most new legal immigrants (green card holders) are barred from most welfare programs, as are illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, these provisions have only a modest impact on non-citizen household use rates because: 1) most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it always apply to non-citizen children; 3) some states provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; and, most importantly, 4) non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) can receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children who are awarded U.S. citizenship and full welfare eligibility at birth. Read the entire report here.
Fast Fact: A “caravan” a week: Nearly 200 Family Units and Unaccompanied Children Arrested in less than 24 hours in the Rio Grande Valley
U.S. CBP
November 30, 201
(Catch and release directly to US communities)
Nearly 200 Family Units and Unaccompanied Children Arrested in less than 24 hours in the Rio Grande Valley
EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley continue to apprehend large groups of family units and unaccompanied children.
Thursday, a group of 57 illegal aliens turned themselves in to McAllen agents near Granjeno, Texas. The group consisted of family units from the countries of Honduras and Nicaragua.
A few hours later, agents assigned to the Weslaco station encountered a group of 34 illegal aliens comprised of family units and unaccompanied children from the countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Later that night, McAllen agents working near Mission, Texas, arrested a group of 87 illegal aliens consisting of family units and unaccompanied children from the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Border Patrol is processing the subjects accordingly.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector currently has multiple campaigns focused on rescues and danger awareness, such as “Operation Big Rig” and “No Se Arriesgue” to combat smuggling and ultimately save lives. Call 911 to report suspicious activity; “They’re humans, not cargo!”
Please visit www.cbp.gov to view additional news releases and other information pertaining to Customs and Border Protection. Follow us on Twitter at @CBPRGV.
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November 30, 2018 Read it all here.
From Georgia DDS – Gender change now available for official driving and ID credentials!
“Gender Change – A gender update requires applicants to submit a court order or physician’s letter certifying gender change. The letter or court order shall state the person’s name, date of birth, date of gender reassignment operation and other identifying information.”
