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Unfortunately your smug reply is wrong, as I said before. From: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/table1 https://www.dhs.gov/immigration
by newfriend 6y ago
Unfortunately your smug reply is wrong, as I said before.
From: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/table1 https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/tab...
Table 1. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status: Fiscal Years 1820 to 2018
Year Number
2018 1,096,611
2017 1,127,167
2016 1,183,505
This also obviously doesn't even count the number of illegal aliens coming here every year.
> The immigrant and descendent of immigrant population of the US is roughly 100%, because there are only 5 million native Americans in the US.
Native Americans came from elsewhere at some point too, I suppose they are immigrants also according to your meaningless definition.
Forgive me if I don't care about the per-capita number of refugees in Canada.
You are the one who is mistaken.
- arcticbull 6y agoI likely excluded the number of US citizen direct family members, which means Canada brings in 5X per capita not 10X - or even the 20X from before. That's still a startlingly large delta. > Forgive me if I don't care about the per-capita number of refugees in Canada. Well then why are you replying to me? > You are the one who is mistaken. I'm wrong about lots of things, and my goal is always to get it right, and I've edited my responses for clarity, with a statement of why. However, the fact remains, 25X more refugees per capita and 5X more immigrants per capita is a lot. Thank you for your help in figuring out where the delta was! I didn't mean to come off smug though, I saw other folks had varying definitions of what an "immigrant" was.