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Study: Eight million new immigrants enter U.S. since 2000
RAW STORY


While heat continues to rage in Washington over immigration, a new study has found 8 million new immigrants entered the United States since 2000 -- some 3.7 million of them illegal aliens, RAW STORY can reveal.

That's two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910, according to the report. Details follow.

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The report, "Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005," is online here. Among the findings:


-- Between January 2000 and March 2005, 7.9 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country, making it the highest five-year period of immigration in American history.

-- Nearly half of post-2000 arrivals (3.7 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.

-- New arrivals are offset by deaths and return migration among the existing immigrant population, so that the total number here increased by 5.2 million since 2000, half of whom are illegals.

-- The 35.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) here in March of 2005 is the highest ever recorded —- two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910
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