How many illegal aliens are currently living in the United States?

4 Comments

1. mrscmmckim says:

   March 27, 2010 at 11:12 am

   http://www.cis.org/topics/illegalimmigration.html

   The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) estimates that in January of 2000 there were
   7 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a number that is growing by half a million a year.

   No one wakes up in Timbuktu and says, “Today I will move to Buffalo!” – migration takes place by way of networks of relatives, friends, acquaintances, and fellow countrymen, and few people immigrate to a place where these connections are absent. Consider two countries on the other side of the planet – the Philippines and Indonesia. Both have large, poor populations, they are neighbors and share many cultural similarities, yet there are more than one million Filipino immigrants in the United States and only a handful of Indonesians, and annual immigration from the Philippines is routinely 40-50 times greater than immigration from Indonesia. Why? Because the ties between the United States and the Philippines are numerous and deep, our having colonized the country for 50 years and maintained an extensive military presence there for another 50 years. On the other hand, the United States has very few ties to Indonesia, whose people tend to migrate to the Netherlands, its former colonial ruler.
2. cardinal_bob says:

   March 27, 2010 at 12:02 pm

   Too frickin’ many! I’m volunteering for the Minutemen
3. dmlsbl says:

   March 27, 2010 at 12:48 pm

   TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. chupaflor says:

   March 27, 2010 at 1:13 pm

   I vote “too many.”