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Legal immigration to the United States over time A naturalization ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts in 2007. As of 2018, approximately half of immigrants living in the United States are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. [122] Many Central Americans are fleeing because of desperate social and economic circumstances in their countries.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. It exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
The Social Security and Medicare contributions of illegal immigrants directly support older Americans, as illegal immigrants are not eligible to receive these services, although their children born in the United States are eligible for such benefits. Illegal immigrants pay social security payroll taxes but are not eligible for benefits.
Immigration is beneficial for long run economic growth and will be vital as the U.S. faces an aging population. Letters: Immigrants helped build America and power the economy. We need them to succeed.
I was given the opportunity to interview undocumented Latin American immigrants. Some of the stories I was told were tragic, some enraging. Why we should appreciate the contributions of ...
In the United States, immigrant workers hold a disproportionate share of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM): "In 2013, foreign-born workers accounted for 19.2 percent of STEM workers with a bachelor's degree, 40.7 percent of those with a master's degree, and more than half—54.5 percent—of those with a PhD" [62]
Undocumented immigrants paid $96 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022 ... to all current undocumented immigrants, their tax contributions nationally would rise an additional $40.2 ...
Ethnic Chinese immigration to the United States since 1965 has been aided by the fact that the United States maintains separate quotas for Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. During the late 1960s and early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan creating the Taiwanese American subgroup.