Illegals Today

Although this article is from 2003, the information on the economics of migration is still valid. Most can agree that the individual migrant can benefit--sometimes earning in a day what would take a week or month back home. But how does the receiving country benefit? How does the country of origin benefit? Not everyone is picking tomatoes or nailing shingles.

•About 30% of all highly educated Ghanaians and Sierra Leoneans live abroad
•12% of Mexico's population with higher education is in the United States, and 30 percent of its PhDs
•75% of Jamaicans with higher education are in the United States
•Albania lost one-third of its qualified people in the decade after the fall of communism
•Half of all foreign students who get PhDs in the United States are still there five years later

Migration Information Source - Migration as a Factor in Development and Poverty Reduction

"Casino Visas, every year the croupiers at the State Department run a high-tech drawing for green cards. To qualify you must be an alien, a high school graduate or equivalent, and be a citizen of a country that routinely does not send us lots of immigrants. You can't use it if you are from Mexico, or China, or 17 other listed countries.

You can use it, however, if you are from, for instance, Nepal, or Chile, or, most pertinently, Ireland."

So what's so special about Ireland. Read up on it.

Let's Abolish the Casino Visas – a Bit of Targeted Immigration Reform | Center for Immigration Studies

Over 75% of Taiwanese immigrants are home owners, higher than other immigrants and more than native born population, and they are better educated than other immigrants and the general population. They also have a lower poverty rate. Let's take a look at Taiwanese culture and family values and see what they are doing right. And we better hurry. Immigration is slowing and many Taiwanese-Americans have returned to Asia as the political climate clears somewhat.

Migration Information Source - Taiwanese Immigrants in the United States

The recent Pew report on the decline of the illegal population in the United States has created a lot of buzz. Does anyone really know how many illegals reside in the United States? . . .

"What is the real number of illegal immigrants in the United States and how much has the population of illegal immigrants been reduced in the last few years for whatever reason?

The truthful answer is that no one can say for sure, and the numbers that are taken as authoritative may be, but are themselves sample estimates recalculated on the basis of further estimates which have added to them estimates of factors that effect them for which there are no actual numbers of any kind.

Caveat perscriptor.

Behind the Pew Study on Illegal Immigration, Part III: Estimating Illegal Immigration - The Basic Model and Its Limitations | Center for Immigration Studies

According to Newsmax.com: "Due to birthright citizenship, the undocumented immigrant families of anchor babies can qualify for welfare benefits they would otherwise not be entitled to receive.

Also, a child born into those families has the ability “when he grows up, to legalize his parents, and also to bring into the United States his foreign-born spouse and any foreign-born siblings,” according to CIS Legal Policy Analyst Jon Feere.

“The sponsored spouse can, in turn, sponsor her own foreign-born parents and siblings, and the siblings can, in turn, sponsor their own foreign-born spouses, and so on, generating a virtually never-ending and always-expanding migration chain.”

The child born in the U.S. to illegal aliens thus forms an anchor for the legal immigration of a number of relatives — hence the term “anchor baby.”

The anchor baby phenomenon has led to the growth of “birth tourism” — pregnant women traveling to the United States to give birth on American soil.

Labels: anchor baby, birth tourism

I should think so! With Americans not finding work, where is the hope for illegals?

"The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center." New York Times

Labels: New York Times, Pew