THE NEW ERA OF IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA

This is the new era of immigrants entering the United States!

I have noticed a drastic difference between then and now here in Buffalo, New York. So many nationalities that I’ve never even heard of. I decided to educate myself by investigating and conducting research on the subject. Here is my first article on the subject. More will come as I uncover more about our immigration problem — I’m curious about the statistics at hand, both here  in the USA and other countries.

In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any other country, with 47 million as of 2015.   The U.S. foreign born population reached 47 million, and is predicted to reach 78 million with twenty Metropolitan areas with the longest number of immigrants.

According to the 2016 immigrant statistics, the U.S. admitted 1.18 million legal Immigrants. Of these, 48% were immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% refugee, and asylum seekers, 12% were employment based preference, 4.2% were part of Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, persons admitted under the Nicaraguan, and Central American Relief Act, children born subsequent to the issuance of a parent’s Visa, and certain parolees from the from Soviet Union, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, who were denied refugee status.

1.4% were (or were related to) victims of a crime, or their family members, and 1.0% were granted the Special Immigrant Visa, (SIV) for Iraqis, and Afghans employed by U.S. government.

The remaining 0.4%, including 0.2%, were granted suspension or deportation, were immigrant relatives of a citizen.

 As for our good neighbor across the border, Canada has gain popularity as immigrants’ preferred destination. It has been increasing over the past two decades, with a total of 303,257 immigrants coming to the country in 2018. This figure has minimized, since 2016, when about 323,190 immigrants came to Canada, which is more than the estimated 199,170 immigrants in 2003.

With its extreme influx of immigrants, could the U.S. become over-populated in the future? Do you wonder why President Trump is trying to control this amount of people crossing our borders only to feel helpless…shared among many.