That says very little. There are such a wide range of immigrants: young immigrants, older immigrants, poor immigrants, wealthy immigrants, undocumented immigra

That says very little. There are such a wide range of immigrants: young immigrants, older immigrants, poor immigrants, wealthy immigrants, undocumented immigrants, documented with a green card. If someone relatively wealthy immigrates here and uses the "millionaire's visa" and invests in a business, they get a green card. Well, that counts toward the statistic. Also, the article has it TOTALLY WRONG about immigration history. Immigration was relatively loose until the Civil War, and then it was slowly closed until in the late 1800s, restrictions really increased substantially until the 1940s, particularly for Asians. Then, after WW2 it eased up, and in 1965 racial discrimination in immigration quotas was made illegal by the Civil Rights Act. That created a new phase of global immigration, and things stayed the same until 1986 with the IRCA. That closed off some forms of immigration, specifically affecting illegal immigration. In the same time frame, it became easier for wealthy entrepreneurs to immigrate (mainly the ones from Hong Kong), and then H1B started, and it became easier for technically skilled workers to get worker visas and later green cards. So it's not as the article said, that the doors were wide open, and then they have slowly been closing. That is at best an error, and at worst, a total deception. After reading that, I stopped, because if the writer can't get that basic history correct, they don't know squat. (I should add that I am in favor of increasing immigration, but opposed to the current trend of expanding guest worker quotas.)