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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (178382)	11/25/2003 5:06:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579123

Ted, meanwhile in California, they're repealing the measure which would have given driver's licenses to illegal immigrants: latimes.com; Sorry, I still see the good behind it and don't understand the complaints. What's particularly noteworthy is that most of the Democrats who voted for this thing just two months ago reversed their position, including the author of the original measure, State Senator Gil Cedillo. Of course..........they have no choice. Arnold is on his honeymoon and they can't object to anything he wants.......good or bad. Its a dangerous time..........for the next 6 months, there no longer will be two parties in CA but rather a rubberstamp for Arnold who really doesn't know squat about running a state. Having said that, he has brought on some good people. For the sake of the western states, I hope he pulls it off. ted Tenchusatsu

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (178382)	11/26/2003 12:42:26 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579123

Immigration to U.S. Speeds Up Tue Nov 25, 2:10 PM ET Add U.S. National - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Alan Elsner, National Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legal and illegal immigration to the United States, already at record levels in the 1990s, accelerated further after 2000 despite the economic slowdown, a study released on Tuesday said. The report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates sharply restricting legal immigration to around 300,000 a year while strengthening the country's borders, was based on a detailed analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau (news - web sites)'s annual population survey issued last April. It concluded that from 2000 to 2002, net immigration to the United States averaged around 1.4 million per year, about half a million of whom entered or stayed in the country illegally. If that trend continues, the immigrant population will reach a total of 45 million by 2010 and account for over 14 percent of the total population, compared to 7.9 percent in 1990 and 11.1 percent in 2000. The Census Bureau estimates current U.S. population at 292.7 million. "Advocates of mass immigration justified the record-breaking immigration levels of the 1990s on labor market demands," said FAIR director Dan Stein. "The past two years prove conclusively that immigration today is wholly unrelated to economic needs and conditions in this country," he said. Steve Camorata of the Center for Immigration Studies, who conducted his own analysis of the data showing that 2.3 million immigrants had joined the workforce since 2000, said that contrary to public perceptions, immigration had not slackened since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. "There hasn't been a slowdown. People may have to wait a little longer in some countries to come here, but many have waited for years so it makes little difference. They are still coming," he said. Latin America and Caribbean countries account for 40 percent to 45 percent of legal immigration to the United States. Another 35 percent come from Asia with Europe, Australia and the Middle East accounting for the rest. "UNLIKELY TO SLOW" Camorata said it was impossible to predict future trends with certainty. "But we have 50 years of data to look back on, suggesting that immigration has been constantly rising, so it's unlikely to slow down," he said. The FAIR report also suggested that some states that had previously received a relatively small number of immigrants now had the fastest growing foreign-born population. North Carolina, for example, received an average of around 6,500 immigrants a year in the 1990s but has received over 29,000 a year since 2000. The rate also jumped in Colorado, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Frank Sharry, director of the pro-immigration National Immigration Forum, said in a recent analysis on Immigration Daily, an online publication that even with the economic slowdown there was a demand for immigrant labor. "The home-grown workforce of Americans is inexorably declining," he said. There have been a few signs that the influx is producing some anti-immigrant sentiment. A poll last year by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations found that 60 percent of the public regarded the present level of immigration to be a "critical threat to the vital interests of the United States." Fifty-five percent said immigration should be reduced. In the 1990s, some 11.2 million immigrants came to the United States. They and their 6.4 million children accounted for almost 70 percent of U.S. population growth over the decade, census figures showed. There are an estimated 8 million to 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.