OF COURSE, this article is politically-trajectoried as per the current migrants narrative. Obviously the article speaks of asylum-seekers, although it doesn't directly speak of it in defining "immigration." Fact is, there's not much change in "legal entries" in the last five years. Trump has been in power only in the last 3 years so I don't think there's already a significant new trend. The huge change is in asylum applications. From 2012 to 2017, asylum claims from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, have gone up from 8,519 to 76,023, an increase of 892 percent.
One significant reason for lesser (legal) migration are improved opportunities back home, especially in Asia. Yet many chose to stay to savor the hard-earned fruit/s of their years of labor. Asians evolved as highest earners per household in the US. Now they can even (also) invest in businesses back home as economic clime sweetens out there. Yet the US' immigrant population reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in the nation’s history. Still, of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade.
Latin Americans have always dominated immigration. Countries from this region accounted for 58 percent of the growth in the immigrant population from 2000 to 2010. With nearly 12 million immigrants, Mexico was by far the top immigrant-sending country, accounting for 29 percent of all immigrants and 29 percent of growth in the immigrant population from 2000 to 2010. Washington's relations with Mexico, after Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, has always been lenient. In fact Mexico gets special treatment in the quota system as per the Immigration Act of 1924, which limits the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
And as I pointed out, Mexico/Central America still dominate entries, but legally. With an almost 900 spike in asylum-seekers, on top of the 47 percent of all Mexican illegal immigrants, some kind of adjustment in fiscal management has to be done. The last White House administration didn't mind the acceptance of a record number of refugeees while the country was grappling with economic downturn. Now it is Trump's job to deal with the huge backlog. But as I said, legal migration didn't really move much as per quota system, it is the asylum-acceptance and number of illegals that soared. Yet a highly-partisan media don't project that part of the immigration narrative.
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<>Place of birth for the foreign-born population in the United States. Top 10: Mexico, China, India, Philippines, El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Guatemala.
<>Countries of origins of immigrants to the US in the last ten years: [1] Mexico. [2] China. [3] Cuba. [4] India. [5] Dominican Republic. [6] Philippines. [7] Vietnam. [8] El Salvador. [9] Jamaica. [10] Haiti.
<>Mexicans made up less than half of all unauthorized U.S. immigrants (47 percent) in 2017, compared with 57 percent in 2007. Their numbers (and share of the total) have been declining in recent years: There were 4.9 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants living in the US. in 2017, down from 6.9 million in 2007.
<>Legal migration to America didn't really move much as per quota system. It is the asylum-acceptance and number of illegals that soared. Yet a highly-partisan media don't project that part of the immigration narrative. Fiscal management has to be adjusted thus less refugees are accepted by 2017. That's a fact not just in the US but also in most European nations.
