Immigration: Shaping and reshaping America

From: Population Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A bout 95,000 foreigners a day arrive in the United States, but most do not intend to stay long. More than 90,000 are nonimmigrant tourists, business people, students, and workers who are welcomed at airports and border crossings. About 3,000 are immigrants or refugees who have been invited to be come permanent residents of the United States, and more than 1,000 are unauthorized foreigners, usually Mexicans, who evade border controls, enter the United States, and settle.1

Is the arrival of so many foreigners to be welcomed or feared? There is no single answer, which helps to explain w hy ...

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