The Urban Layers Project

WASHINGTON:
India is among the top three states sending people to the US, where one in
eight come ups from outside America, bringing the sum immigrant population to a
record 37.9 million - highest since the
1920s. Republic Of India is in the top
three of legal in-migration in the state accounting for a small more than than 1.7
million with nearly 39 per cent being United States citizens, said the survey released by
Center for Immigration
Studies. Out of a total
immigrant population of 37.9 million, an estimated 11.3 million are illegals
with 57 per cent coming from United Mexican States and 11 per cent from Central
America. Asia business relationships for at
least nine per cent of the illegal population in the
country. The statistics showed
that if about 2,22,000 people from Republic Of India were registered as lawful immigrants in
this state in 1980, that figure have progressively increased to 3,14,000
between 1980 and 1989, to 5,39,000 between 1990 and 1999, and to 6,29,000
between 2000 and 2007, it
said. Of the sum legal
immigration, more than than 31 per cent come up from Mexico, with South Asia coming in
at 5.5 per cent for a sum of a small over two million
immigrants. The up-to-the-minute study
also showed that immigrants business relationship for one in eight United States residents, the highest
level in 80 years. In 1970, it was one in 21. In 1980 it was one in 16 and in
1990 it was one in 13. Since
2000, 10.3 million immigrants have got arrived - the peak seven-year period of
immigration in United States history. More than one-half of post-2000 reachings (5.6 million)
are estimated to be illegal aliens.