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The people that immigrate to U.S. illegally, search a fast solution to this situation, so a pretty little part of the immigrants are illegally

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The people that immigrate to U.S. illegally, search a fast solution to this situation, so a pretty little part of the immigrants are illegally

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12,000 of immigrants are becaming in citizens with help of differents organizations, like "Make the road"

Official site: https://maketheroadny.org/issue/immigration/

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3.3% of the world population of 7350 million now lives in a country where they were not born.
Immigration changes the country's internal policy in different cultural, religious and linguistic ways, even affecting the country's economy.

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Here we can see an interview with Kate Smith. She is a CBS news reporter who reports on immigration.

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After shutting down the government for more than a month, President Trump remains without his campaign's hallmark promise: a Mexican-funded southern border wall. D.C. politicians have until February 15 before temporary funding runs out and the government shuts down for the second time this year.

Here are nine facts that describe the state of immigration in 2019.

How do most unauthorized immigrants enter the United States?

Only about one-third of the recently unauthorized immigration population got to the U.S. by sneaking across the southern border, according to Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. Programs at the Migration Policy Institute. That means a wall would not have prevented two-thirds of the country's recently undocumented immigrants from illegally entering the U.S.

How many unauthorized immigrants live in the United States?

Fact: Between 10.7 and 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S. as of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available.
Source: Pew Research Center and the Migration Policy Institute

According to Pew, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States hit a 12-year low in 2016, a decline that researchers attribute to stepped-up enforcement at the country's southern border and shifting economic trends. The Migration Policy Institute estimates there were 11.3 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016.

How many people are caught attempting to illegally cross the southern border every year?

Illegal border crossings began to fall significantly in the mid-2000s after hitting record-highs through the 1980s and 1990s. In 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 1.17 million migrants. Since then, arrests for illegal border crossings have fallen nearly every year.

Is asylum a form of illegal immigration?

Asylum is a special type immigration process reserved for people who have "suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion," according to USCIS.

Being granted asylum is not an easy feat. It's a multi-year process that involves likely detainment, multiple interviews, extensive documentation of an immigrant's prior suffering, and less than stellar odds.

How many immigrants claimed asylum last year?

Last year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services processed about 100,000 "credible fear" claims, the first step in an immigrant's asylum proceedings. Judges decided about 42,000 asylum cases during the same time period, more than any other year since 2001, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

But asylum denials also hit a record high last year. Immigration judges rejected 65 percent of the asylum claims they ruled on in 2018, according to TRAC.

How many immigrants show up for their court dates?

The Trump Administration has based a handful of its new immigration policies, like the recently implemented "Remain in Mexico" policy, based on the assertion that immigrants don't show up to their court hearings, an idea the White House views as a "loophole." Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said during a Congressional testimony late last year that asylum seekers " more than not" fail to appear for their hearings. And in January, President Trump said only two percent of asylum seekers make their court dates.

How do illegal drugs enter the country?

Fact: The vast majority of illegal drugs - like heroin, cocaine and fentanyl - entered the country through legal entry points, known officially as ports of entry.
Source: The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration

Only a "small percentage" of the heroin seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents was found "along the land border between Ports of Entry," according to the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment report, published by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in October.

As for cocaine, the DEA said it was "uncommon to see very large shipments of cocaine headed toward to U.S.-Mexico border," and that instead the drug is transported on boats and "amongst legitimate cargo of commercial trucks or within secret compartments build within passenger vehicles." The DEA added that "traffickers are also increasingly targeting seaports along the East Coast."

Fentanyl enters the country from China via mail and by way of the southern border, according to the DEA. Though it noted that "most [Customs and Border Patrol] fentanyl seizures occur at [ports of entry] in Southern California."

U.S Customs and Border Protection officials announced the agency's biggest fentanyl bust ever late last month. On a tractor trailer legally crossing the border in Arizona, the agency captured 254 pounds of the synthetic opioid, according to the Associated Press.

Do illegal immigrants commit more violent crimes than legal residents?

Fact: Studies say that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes than American-born citizens.
Source: The Cato Institute and The University of Wisconsin

According to a June 2018 research report from the Cato Institute, "illegal immigrants are 47 percent less likely to be incarcerated by natives" and "legal immigrants are 78 percent less likely to be incarcerated than natives."

Undocumented immigrants are also less likely to commit serious criminal offenses, according to research conducted by Cato. Using government-supplied data from the Texas Department of Safety, the libertarian think tank concluded that in Texas the murder arrest rate for native-born Americans was "about 46 percent higher than the illegal immigrant homicide rate," according to a June 2018 research note. Another study, performed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, found that "increased concentrations of undocumented immigrants are associated with statistically significant decreases in violent crime."

Are undocumented immigrants eligible for government-sponsored welfare programs?

Undocumented immigrants are barred from most public benefits, like food stamps, regular Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center. However, some exceptions are granted in order to "protect life or guarantee safety in dire situations," the National Immigration Forum wrote in August 2018.

Legal immigrants - including green card holders, people granted asylum and refugees - qualify for federal benefits, but only after they have resided in the U.S. as a legal resident for five years, according to the NILC.

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The facts on immigration: What you need to know in 2019

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After shutting down the government for more than a month, President Trump remains without his campaign's hallmark promise: a Mexican-funded southern border wall. D.C. politicians have until February 15 before temporary funding runs out and the government shuts down for the second time this year.

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Is the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. declining?

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The United States attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world, who join the fabric of U.S. society through avenues such as citizenship, becoming legal permanent residents (LPRs), or by seeking humanitarian protection. This chart tracks the number of people who annually are granted legal permanent residence (also known as getting a green card). Green-card holders are permitted to live and work in the country indefinitely, to join the armed forces, and to apply for U.S. citizenship after five years (three if married to a U.S. citizen).

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Time to start moving towards a merit-based immigration system

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The land of the brave and home of the free is the most prized destination for Indian immigrants. After the recent fracas over immigration, US President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address earlier this week focussed on a plan to push for meritbased immigration system, ending the visa lottery programme and limiting family-based migration. All this comes as music to the ears of thousands of skilled Indians, waiting on what seem endless queues for green cards.

"It is time to begin moving towards a merit-based immigration system - one that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society, and who will love and respect our country," Trump said. Later, on Thursday, an official communication from the White House further insisted that the time had come to enact common-sense reforms to base immigration on individual merit and skill.

Green Card Backlogs
"The flood of low-skilled immigrants into the US has suppressed wages, harmed American workers and strained federal resources," the White House said as it defended Trump's proposal for a meritbased immigration system.

According to the White House, countries like Canada and Australia use a merit-based immigration system that benefits both the immigrants and those nations. The White House cited a recent Harvard-Harris poll which found 79% of those polled said immigration system should be based on an alien's ability to contribute to America as measured by their education and skills.

Explaining Trump's support for skilled immigrants from India, his supporter and founder of the Hindu Republican Coalition, Shalabh Kumar says that there are between 5,00,000 and 1 million Indian H-1B visa holders in the US who are potential immigrants. "Many of them are advanced degree holders from US universities with many years of work experience.

And even though the US economy needs them, they have long potential wait periods before they can get green cards of permanent immigrant status and then citizenship." According to Kumar, Trump has pointed out the problems of the current immigration system in the US which favours chain migration, or family based categories, over skilled immigrants.

Of the 10,60,000 green cards issued every year, only 1,20,000 are for employment-based skilled workers. The rest are for unskilled workers or what is called 'chain migration' for uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews, Kumar said. "Trump supports a merit-based and points-based system which is good news for the Indian community in the US. However, for any Bill on immigration reforms to be passed, the Republicans need the support of the Democrats."

Dr Jonathan Rodrigues is an example of an Indian professional stuck in a long queue for a green card. He went to St Louis University to train in a dual residency in medicine and paediatrics after his MBBS from JSS Medical College in Mysuru in 2010 and stayed on for a fellowship in allergy and immunology.

"My green card petition was approved in 2015 under the national interest waiver category since I work in the underserved area of North Dakota. But because of the green card backlogs, I too have to wait on an H-1B visa indefinitely," says Rodrigues. For people like him, any travel outside the US, like India to meet family or other overseas medical conferences, means getting his passport stamped at an US diplomatic mission in India. "We cannot start a private practice or volunteer at free clinics. Besides we cannot start any business or get access to a lot of research grants."

Physicians Dr Narayanan Krishnamoorthy and his wife Dr Chitra Mony, moved to Florida in 2006 from Scotland and had their application for green card approved in the national interest waiver (NIW) category. "We work in areas where there are projected shortages of US physicians. Some of us hold master's degrees from prestigious US universities, have published academic papers and have professional certifications in our respective areas of expertise. We were hired purely based on our skills, experience and qualifications. All of us have been employed legally and have been living in US legally since decades," says Krishnamoorthy who switched to a H4 dependent employment authorisation document (EAD) of his wife, the green card applicant with a priority date of August 2010.

With the US department of homeland security looking to remove H4 dependent spouses from eligibility for employment authorisation, Krishnamoorthy is troubled. "I switched to the H4 EAD category after 9 years on the restrictive H-1B category because it gave me the flexibility to join a private practice and work in additional fields like wound care and teach medical students."

Waiting Period
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a non-profit that fights for racial justice and civil rights of South Asians, is focussed on the undocumented segment of the South Asian community and the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act. "We see DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DREAM Act being pitted against legal immigration issues. At present, members of Congress and the White House have proposed legislation and administrative changes that would slash legal immigration up to 50%. These proposals, in addition to the backlogs our communities face, certainly make prospects for immigrating to the US seem dim, which is the goal of this current administration," says Lakshmi Sridaran, director of national policy and advocacy, SAALT.

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has been active on various immigration advocacy issues and spoke out strongly against the Trump administration's proposal to deny extensions of H-1B visas to green card applicants. "Green card queues are long and frustrating. They include primarily relatives of US citizens and lawful permanent residents and various preferences of immigrant workers, but also include investors, special immigrants, which include religious workers - a programme utilised by many Hindu temples," says Suhag A Shukla, executive director, HAF. Being "stuck" professionally during the green card application process or having spouses unable to work while they wait and other factors all contribute to disenchantment over the American dream for Indian families on H-1B extensions, says Shukla.

Skilled Immigrants in America (SIIA), which started as a Facebook group created by Anirban Das, a master's of science graduate from University of Alabama, is now helping create awareness on green card wait times that Indians face. "All across the US, our members have been meeting with senators and Congressmen and sharing personal stories about the uncertainty of our lives on the long green card queues. As part of our advocacy efforts, we plan an outreach in Washington DC which will be attended by over 500 members flying in from different US states next week," says Harshit Chatur, vice-president, media relations of SIIA and an IIT-Madras alumnus who went to the US for an MBA and works for a utilities company in Houston, Texas; his employer filed his green card petition in 2012.

Anirudha Accanoor, who works for Dell Technologies in Boston on an H-1B extension, feels that the US immigration system does not foster innovation. "The long wait on green card queues does not let you easily change jobs or accept promotions/role changes and starting something new is impossible." He has himself put all entrepreneurial plans on hold because securing funding is impossible for Indians on temporary visas. Dhawal Patki is a pharmacist with a masters degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He started working for Walmart in Springfield, Illinois, in 2009 and was sponsored for a H-1B. "My wife works in Chicago and we have lived in the US for 10 years. We are not able to plan on anything long-term because of the uncertainty that we face on the long green card queue," says Patki, who is now 35 and has converted to an H4 dependent EAD because it gave him more flexibility in the job market and move to Chicago with his wife.

Stuck Careers
Life for families on green card queues is filled with uncertainty, feels Neha Mahajan who moved to the US with her husband a decade back when she was in her mid-twenties. "Years have passed, waiting for this vicious circle of visa extensions to get over, my husband is now 40, and I am in the mid-30s. I've lost almost all chances of having a successful career. My husband is stuck in the same job, striving to make sure we maintain our visa status."

They are waiting with approved petitions for green cards. New York-based immigration lawyer Cyrus Mehta reckons that the H-1B work visa still serves as a bridge for the green card for many Indian professionals, despite the long waits. "People are still attracted to work in the US under the H-1B visa, which is the only option, in the hope that Congress will fix the backlogs in the future. The H-1B visa may be the only route to work in the US."

The L-1 intracompany transferee visa is an alternative, but the employee must work in the Indian parent, branch or subsidiary for 1 year before he or she can qualify for the L-1 visa. "The transferee must have worked in a managerial, executive or specialised knowledge capacity in the Indian entity and must be coming to the US entity in a similar role. Not many employees can qualify for the L-1 visa."

Poorvi Chothani, an immigration lawyer in Mumbai, feels that Indian IT companies tread carefully and defer their decisions on US assignments for their employees on H-1B visas in the hope that the US government will soon announce some changes. They calculate that Trump's address could have a bearing on their staffing plans. "Meanwhile, as an alternative, there is a huge interest and increased filings for the investment-based EB-5 visas from H-1B workers within the US who are investing $5,00,000 with regional centres to secure their future with fast track green cards."

Despite the uncertainty of remaining on long queues for the green card, the US is still the favourite destination for skilled Indian IT professionals. "The US has skill gaps too and needs Indian IT professionals, doctors, professors, teachers and STEM researchers. And now, with the support of Trump, it seems very likely that the government will put in place some rules to meet with its requirements of qualified professionals including those from India," says Sudhir Shah, a Mumbai based immigration lawyer.

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Indian professionals are happy with the contours of Donald Trump's latest immigration policy

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The land of the brave and home of the free is the most prized destination for Indian immigrants. After the recent fracas over immigration, US President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address earlier this week focussed on a plan to push for meritbased immigration system, ending the visa lottery programme and limiting family-based migration.

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"You have the right" NYC Campaign against the discrimination 

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"You have the right" NYC Campaign against the discrimination 

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This campaign start for the myths about immigrants that a big part of the US believe. They start informig the citizens that the majority of the immigrants are in a legal situation.

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These kind of myths about immigration are deleting the empaty in the US natives, the law start to make more hard the access to refugees. 

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These kind of myths about immigration are deleting the empaty in the US natives, the law start to make more hard the access to refugees. 

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The majority of the refugees strat their lifes in the US in an immigrant situation, that is one of the reasons that the percentaje of illegal immigrants are "high"

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The principal impulse of this myth, is a mind clouded by racist ideas.

"If I can sell the fear, I can sell the hate in five minutes, and then racism in three minutes and, as a tip, all the amount of discrimination I want" (Hakan Günday).

The majority of the immigrants are in a legal situation.

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The Pew Research Center survey shows that the number of immigrants who come legally with 45% to immigrants who come illegally is less than 42% is higher.
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Misinformation about America's immigrant population is rampant.

Some of it is based on bad data. Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk tweeted a claim on Wednesday that more than a third of the murders in America are committed by immigrants in the country illegally. While it should be obvious to an impartial observer that this claim is questionable, Kirk appears to have calculated it based on data published in an opinion piece at the Hill. That article claimed that a tally of murders by the Government Accountability Office covering a period from 1955 to 2010 among immigrants in the country both legally and illegally was, instead, just homicides by undocumented immigrants from 2005 to 2008. Kirk is a strong supporter of President Trump and vice versa. (Earlier that day, Trump had called him a "spectacular person.") Kirk's willingness to present a bit of data that matched Trump's rhetoric may have made him more likely to accept the flawed numbers from the Hill.

Some of the misinformation, on the other hand, appears to be intentional. Trump's own repeated insistence that immigrants bring crime has been debunked repeatedly, including by The Post. He said it at the outset of his campaign, and it was debunked, and he kept on saying it. A new poll from Pew Research Center, for what it's worth, shows that most Americans know that Trump is incorrect. Sixty-five percent of Americans say that immigrants are not more likely to commit serious crimes than native-born Americans, which is true. (Quite the opposite.)

On one immigration-related point, though, Pew showed that Americans aren't quite clear.

There are about 11 million immigrants in the United States who came here illegally. (If you're curious how we can be fairly certain about that, here.) In total, nearly 45 million residents of the United States were foreign-born. In other words, about three-quarters of immigrants in the country are here legally.

Most Americans, though, don't know that. Pew asked respondents whether most immigrants in the United States were here legally or illegally. Only 45 percent said, correctly, that most are here legally. A slightly lower percentage, 42 percent, said illegally.

There are interesting demographic splits. Hispanic respondents, for example, were more likely to say that most immigrants here came illegally. Republicans were more likely to say "illegally" than "legally," by a 11-point margin. Democrats were much more likely to get the question correct. So were younger Americans.

That may overlap with another interesting demographic break. Older Americans are less likely to be college-educated, and non-college-educated respondents were much more likely to get the response wrong. Most college graduates correctly said that most immigrants are here legally. About half of those without college degrees were incorrect.

Further broken down by party, the results are stark. Most non-college-educated Republicans think that most immigrants are here illegally. Nearly three-quarters of college-educated Democrats think that they are here legally. Republican college graduates were only slightly more likely than Democrats without degrees to get the question correct.

Why did so many people get this wrong? It's hard to say, and Pew doesn't speculate. It may be a function of the extent of media coverage of illegal immigration in the overall immigration debate. It's not clear.

But the repercussions of that erroneous impression seem obvious. If you think that the immigration system is so flawed that most immigrants are here after having violated the law, your perception of how to approach immigration from a policy standpoint may reflect that.

Or it may not. Last week we noted another poll from Gallup. That poll found that immigration is seen as a "good thing" by three-quarters of the country, the highest percentage since they started asking the question in 2001.

When Gallup differentiated the question with "legal" immigration, we'll note, support jumped even higher.

Inside a U.S. immigration jail, mothers count the days since they've seen their children

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Analysis | Most immigrants are in the U.S. legally, something most Americans don't know

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Misinformation about America's immigrant population is rampant. Some of it is based on bad data. Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk tweeted a claim on Wednesday that more than a third of the murders in America are committed by immigrants in the country illegally.

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These facts deny that immigrants come illegally

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En una época de desinformación e intolerancia, las ideas erróneas sobre los inmigrantes y el odio a los inmigrantes se han difundido en la política y la sociedad estadounidenses. Como resultado, el país ha visto un preocupante aumento de la retórica, las políticas y los movimientos sociales que amenazan o perjudican directamente a los inmigrantes y refugiados. Este documento ofrece información y fuentes que aclaran las cosas y esperamos ayude a mitigar el daño causado por la desinformación sobre los inmigrantes.
Los siguientes son hechos básicos bien documentados sobre los inmigrantes y cada uno se discute más detalladamente a continuación: Hecho: Los inmigrantes no ponen en peligro la salud pública.
Las personas que denigran a los inmigrantes y los culpan de los problemas de Estados Unidos alegan que traen enfermedades a Estados Unidos desde más allá de nuestras fronteras. No existen pruebas de que los inmigrantes hayan sido el origen de ningún brote moderno de enfermedades en Estados Unidos.

Cuando estalló la pandemia del COVID-19 en 2020, las políticas que buscaban prohibir la entrada de inmigrantes y refugiados a Estados Unidos se basaban en motivos infundados de preocupación por la salud pública y el miedo a la propagación del COVID-19. A medida que la pandemia se afianzaba, expertos en salud enfatizaron que la continuación de los trámites de inmigración y asilo no propagaría aún más el coronavirus y, por el contrario, que el cierre de la frontera en realidad afectaría negativamente a la salud pública al contribuir al hacinamiento en ambos lados de ella. Además, antes de entrar a Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes deben someterse a un examen médico para detectar ciertas enfermedades transmisibles.
Hecho: los inmigrantes no pueden votar hasta convertirse en ciudadanos.
Los políticos y otros que quieren restringir la inmigración afirman que los inmigrantes indocumentados pueden votar. Los inmigrantes -incluidos los indocumentados- no pueden registrarse para votar antes de obtener la ciudadanía estadounidense, independientemente de que un estado les expida una licencia de conducir. Dieciséis estados y el Distrito de Columbia permiten a los inmigrantes indocumentados obtener tarjetas de identificación estatales en forma de licencias de conducir y todos los estados expiden documentos de identificación a los inmigrantes que tienen visas temporales y permanentes. Estas licencias constituyen una identificación válida y promueven la seguridad pública, pero no dan derecho a los inmigrantes a votar en las elecciones.

Para votar, todos los estados -a excepción de uno- exigen que la persona se registre primero y, para ello, el solicitante debe obtener y confirmar su ciudadanía estadounidense. Existen muchas y serias medidas para garantizar que solo los ciudadanos puedan votar; que cualquiera que intente subvertir esta norma sea sometido a un severo castigo y que un intento de este tipo nunca dé lugar al recuento de votos no autorizados.
Hecho: los inmigrantes crean empleo y mejoran la economía de Estados Unidos.
Algunas personas buscan explotar los malentendidos sobre el mercado laboral y el sistema fiscal de Estados Unidos fomentando la idea de que más inmigrantes significan menos puestos de trabajo y menos acceso a los programas sociales para los ciudadanos. De hecho, los inmigrantes ayudan a crear nuevos empleos. Además de comprar productos estadounidenses y locales -lo cual contribuye a crear puestos de trabajo-, los inmigrantes suelen establecer sus propios negocios. Los estados con un gran número de inmigrantes registran tasas de desempleo más bajas para todos.

En 2019, los inmigrantes pagaron conjuntamente más de $492 mil millones de dólares en impuestos, incluyendo más de $30 mil millones de dólares en impuestos pagados por los inmigrantes indocumentados. Todos pagan impuestos sobre los bienes que compran e impuestos sobre la propiedad de las casas que compran, y más de la mitad de los hogares de inmigrantes indocumentados presentan declaraciones de impuestos sobre la renta utilizando Números de Identificación Personal del Contribuyente (TIN, por sus siglas en inglés).
Hecho: la mayoría de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos tienen un estatus legal.
Algunos individuos y activistas antiinmigrantes afirman que la mayoría de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos no se sometieron a un proceso legal para vivir aquí. De hecho, la gran mayoría de los inmigrantes (77%) tienen un estatus legal.

En 2017, el 45% de los inmigrantes eran ciudadanos naturalizados y el 27% eran residentes permanentes legales (a veces denominados titulares de Tarjeta Verde o Green Card). El 28% restante de los inmigrantes son refugiados y solicitantes de asilo, personas que están en Estados Unidos con visas temporales (incluyendo visados de estudiante y de trabajo) e inmigrantes indocumentados.

En 2019, se calcula que había entre 10,5 y 12 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados viviendo en Estados Unidos, es decir, menos del 4% de la población del país.
Hecho: a lo largo de la historia de Estados Unidos, el porcentaje de inmigrantes se ha mantenido estable.
Quienes pretenden propagar el miedo sobre el creciente número de inmigrantes en Estados Unidos, suelen citar estadísticas engañosas y fuera de contexto. Aunque hoy hay más inmigrantes viviendo en Estados Unidos que nunca antes, también hay más personas viviendo en Estados Unidos que nunca antes. El porcentaje de inmigrantes respecto a la población total no es muy diferente al de muchas otras épocas a lo largo de nuestra historia.

De hecho, el porcentaje de inmigrantes hoy en Estados Unidos es más o menos el mismo que hace más de cien años. En la actualidad, los inmigrantes representan aproximadamente el 13,7% de la población total de Estados Unidos. Entre 1900 y 1930, los inmigrantes representaban entre el 12% y el 15% de la población, y picos similares se produjeron en las décadas de 1850 y 1880. Durante esos periodos, los inmigrantes se integraron con éxito en la sociedad estadounidense, ayudando a construir el próspero y diverso país que tenemos ahora, y este proceso siempre ha sido así, independientemente del país de origen, la raza o la religión de los inmigrantes. No hay ningún motivo para creer que los inmigrantes de hoy sean diferentes.
Hecho: los inmigrantes tienen menos probabilidades que los ciudadanos nacidos en Estados Unidos de cometer delitos o ser encarcelados.
Algunos afirman que los inmigrantes no cumplen la ley. Citan pruebas anecdóticas o casos individuales en los que los inmigrantes han hecho algo ilegal y utilizan estos casos para señalar a todos los inmigrantes como delincuentes. Un estudio tras otro ha demostrado que los inmigrantes -independientemente de su lugar de origen, su estatus migratorio y su nivel educativo- tienen menos probabilidades de cometer delitos o ser encarcelados que los ciudadanos nativos.
Hecho: los inmigrantes no suelen tener derecho a prestaciones sociales.
Algunos sugieren que los inmigrantes utilizan demasiados beneficios públicos o se aprovechan de la red de seguridad social a disposición de los ciudadanos. De hecho, la mayoría de los inmigrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos trabajan duro para cuidar de sus familias y de sí mismos. Además, muchos estudios han demostrado que, en promedio, los inmigrantes pagan más en impuestos que los beneficios que reciben.

Con muy pocas excepciones (como el caso de acceso a atención médica para las víctimas de la trata de seres humanos), los inmigrantes indocumentados, residentes temporales e incluso los residentes permanentes recién llegados no tienen derecho a las prestaciones públicas federales tales como Seguridad Social, Medicaid, Medicare y cupones de alimentos. Los titulares de la Tarjeta Verde o Green Card no suelen tener derecho a estas prestaciones hasta que llevan cinco años o más en el país en calidad de residentes permanentes. Esto significa que a muchos inmigrantes se les deducen de sus sueldos las contribuciones a estos programas, pero no pueden acceder a los beneficios. Según un estudio de 2018 del Instituto CATO, los inmigrantes que cumplen los requisitos utilizan un 27% menos prestaciones en comparación con las personas de ingresos y edades similares nacidas con la ciudadanía estadounidense.

La Ley CARES 2020, de 2 billones de dólares, que dio un alivio financiero a causa del COVID-19 a la mayoría de los contribuyentes, excluyó a millones de inmigrantes sin número de Seguro Social de recibir los cheques de estímulo -aunque muchos inmigrantes pagan impuestos y siguen trabajando en empleos esenciales, incluyendo la asistencia sanitaria.
Hecho: los terroristas rara vez han entrado ilegalmente al país por la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.
De acuerdo con un informe publicado por la Oficina de Contraterrorismo del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos en 2019, "la cooperación antiterrorista entre México y Estados Unidos se mantuvo fuerte en 2019. No hubo evidencia creíble que indicara que los grupos terroristas internacionales establecieran bases en México, trabajaran directamente con los cárteles de la droga mexicanos o enviaran operativos a Estados Unidos a través de México".

Una excepción reciente fue el arresto de dos individuos bajo vigilancia terrorista que intentaron cruzar la frontera a principios de 2021. Ambos individuos fueron capturados y se les impidió cruzar la frontera.

Fuentes
Hecho: los inmigrantes no ponen en peligro la salud pública
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/public_health_experts_letter_05.18.2020.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/medical-examination-faqs.html#3 Hecho: los inmigrantes no pueden votar hasta convertirse en ciudadanos. https://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx
https://www.uscis.gov/forms/explore-my-options/proof-of-citizenship-for-us-citizens#:~:text=You%20are%20a%20U.S.%20citizen,%2D550%2C%20Certificate%20of%20Naturalization%3B&text=Form%20FS%2D240%2C%20Report%20of,of%20United%20States%20Citizen%3B%20or
Hecho: los inmigrantes crean empleo y mejoran la economía de Estados Unidos. https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/immigrants-to-the-u-s-create-more-jobs-than-they-take https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/locations/national/ https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares https://immigrationforum.org/article/immigrants-as-economic-contributors-immigrant-entrepreneurs/ https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/14132832/Immigrant-Entrepreneurs-Financial-Capital-Full-Report.pdf https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-2017/ Hecho: la mayoría de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos tienen un estatus legal. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/
https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-many-undocumented-immigrants-are-in-the-united-states-and-who-are-they/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/how-pew-research-center-counts-unauthorized-immigrants-in-us/ https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade/ Hecho: a lo largo de la historia de Estados Unidos, el porcentaje de inmigrantes se ha mantenido estable. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/ft_2020-08-20_immigrants_01/ Hecho: los inmigrantes tienen menos probabilidades que los ciudadanos nacidos en Estados Unidos de cometer delitos o ser encarcelados. https://news.wisc.edu/undocumented-immigrants-far-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-in-u-s-than-citizens/ https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/605/ https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/documents/files/022851_mythsfacts_2016_report_final.pdf https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Immigration-and-Public-Safety.pdf https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/30/the-myth-of-the-criminal-immigrant
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/601/#:~:text=Most%20Detained%20Immigrants%20Have%20No,by%20no%20means%20an%20anomaly.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/ Hecho: los inmigrantes no suelen tener derecho a prestaciones sociales. https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/immigration-welfare-state-immigrant-native-use-rates https://www.uscis.gov/news/public-charge-fact-sheet https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/02/24/dhs-implements-inadmissibility-public-charge-grounds-final-rule#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20U.S.%20Department%20of,Public%20Charge%20Grounds%20final%20rule.&text=%E2%80%9CThis%20rule%20enforces%20longstanding%20law,hard%20work%2C%20perseverance%20and%20determination. https://immigrationforum.org/article/immigrants-as-economic-contributors-immigrant-tax-contributions-and-spending-power/ Hecho: los terroristas rara vez han ingresado ilegalmente al país por la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.Fact: Immigrants cannot vote until they become citizens. https://www.cato.org/blog/terrorists-are-not-crossing-mexican-border https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2020 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-says-terrorists-havent-crossed-us-mexico-border/ https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/us-citizens-responsible-for-vast-majority-of-islamist-extremist-terror-plots-in https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Country-Reports-on-Terrorism-2019-2.pdf

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Eight Facts about Immigrants and Immigration (In English and Español)

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En una época de desinformación e intolerancia, las ideas erróneas sobre los inmigrantes y el odio a los inmigrantes se han difundido en la política y la sociedad estadounidenses. Como resultado, el país ha visto un preocupante aumento de la retórica, las políticas y los movimientos sociales que amenazan o perjudican directamente a los inmigrantes y refugiados.

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The most significant external causes are:

1. Lack of alternatives for occupational achievements.

2. Social uncertainty about the economic future.

3. General insecurity against the growth of violence.

4. Unsatisfied basic needs.