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1 million legal immigrants comprises over 12% of our population? What exactly do you believe the US population is? I can’t tell if I’m on Facebook or hacker ne
by tracer4201 8y ago
1 million legal immigrants comprises over 12% of our population? What exactly do you believe the US population is?
I can’t tell if I’m on Facebook or hacker news.
- ip26 8y agoWhat, you didn't know that the entire population of California was illegal immigrants?
- tracer4201 8y agoOp never called out California by name and made it sound like they’re referring to the whole country.
- benjohnson 8y agoYear over year a million immigrants adds up to 14.2% of our population as stated in this UN report: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates15.shtml http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/d... This is germane to the topic because many of our recent immigrates are from developing countries.
- tracer4201 8y agoBroken link
- benjohnson 8y agoLooks like they're having some server issues. Here's a PDF of the UN 2017 report - it shows America has over 49 million immigrants on page 6. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/publications/migrationreport/docs/MigrationReport2017_Highlights.pdf http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/p...