Immigrants...The Backbone of America

Random Facts

"A 1997 study by the American Academy of Sciences found that the cheap labor of illegal immigrants and poor immigrants caused a 44% decrease in wages among the poorest Americans from 1980 to 1994" (Center for Immigration Studies).
"A strategy of attrition through enforcement, which includes mandatory workplace verification and measures to curb misuse of Social Security numbers, could reduce the illegal population by as many as 1.5 million illegal immigrants each year" (Center for Immigration Studies).
"If immigration continues at current levels, the nation's population will increase from 301 million today to 468 million in 2060 - a 167 million, or 56% increase” (Center for Immigration Studies).
"In 2007, E-Verify, a system to determine legal employment eligibility, received about 3 million queries, of which 157,000 were found to be unauthorized to work despite having previously evaded the paper version of the I-9 process, thus stopping their illegal employment" (Center for Immigration Studies).
"In October 2008, the illegal immigrant population stood at 11.9 million according to the Pew Hispanic Center" (NumbersUSA).
"The U.S. Census Bureau showed that the nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached nearly 38 million in March 2007, one-third of which are comprised of illegal immigrants" (Center for Immigration Studies).
"There are approximately 7.7 million illegal aliens employed in U.S. jobs in 2008" (NumbersUSA).