3 ms·

Immigration is not only still possible, but booming. The number of immigrants living in the US is 12.9% - which is close to an all-time high from about a hundr

• Spooky23 12y ago
  Yes -- and a quarter are illegal! From your link (http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-population http://cis.org/2012-profile-of-americas-foreign-born-populat...) "We estimate that 28 percent of all immigrants are in the country illegally. Roughly half of Mexican and Central American and one-third of South American immigrants are here illegally." Per the population figures in the link... Approximately 6 million people from Mexico and Central America alone don't have legal status. Those people are more vulnerable to all sorts of employer abuses, usually don't have healthcare, can't legally drive in many cases and face all sorts of other challenges.