#migrant

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. ↗

— Gary Miller

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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States. ↗

— Gary Miller

#alien #borders #california #estimated #highest

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#immigrant #lebanon #mother #old #she

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#area #birth #boston #died #either

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

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Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

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There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#exporting #government #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#immigrants #nation #states #united #united states

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#five #grown #hit #immigrant #increase

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#border #curtail #flow #illegal #illegal immigrants