Here is a visual that charts the top destination and origin countries of international migrants in 2020. While the vast majority are migrating to the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United Kingdom are the top destination countries whereas India, Mexico, China and Syria are the top origin countries.
I last wrote about Biden’s deportation policy. On the other side of deportation is immigration parole. Immigration parole allows someone who is inadmissible or does not have a legal basis to come into the United States to be allowed to enter for either a humanitarian reason or a significant public benefit.
Let’s talk about deportation. The dark days of Trump’s immigration deportation policies are gone, at least temporarily. Under Trump, we had the Enhancing Public Safety In the Interior of the United States policy, which allowed ICE agents to go on raids throughout the country, targeting migrant communities, installing a state of fear and terror.
Opponents of illegal immigration are fond of telling foreigners to “get in line” before coming to work in America. But what does that line actually look like? And how many years (or decades) does it take to get through? Here is a visual that looks at various scenarios and how long it can take to immigrate to the United States.
America has a rich tradition of immigration. It is in fact a country of immigrants. It is one of the most desirous countries for immigrants to want to migrate to so that they can have an opportunity to experience the American Dream of individual rights and prosperity. The following visual represents immigrants as a percentage of the U.S. population throughout history.
Immigration is a big issue in the United States as well as countries all over the world. In the United States alone, 125 out of every 1,000 people are immigrants. It is estimated that 1.5 million new immigrants, bot legal and illegal, arrive in the U.S. each year. What kind of an impact does immigration have in the U.S. and around the globe?
