Obama Celebrates Newest Americans During Naturalization Ceremony
US Military News
President Barack Obama helped welcome 25 service members and spouses from 15 countries at the end of a journey in which they became America's newest citizens.
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Nearly 1 in 5 US residents a foreign-born immigrant or 'anchor baby' - study:
Three quarters of America's current 61 million "Foreign-born" immigrants and their children came to the US legally, according to a new analysis of US Census data. The study comes as immigration is a hot topic in the presidential elections campaign. Ref. Source 5u.
Immigrants cause a lot of problems for any nation because most of the time they're in an illegal status and take resources away from citizens whether its places to live, jobs to get or just crime. You can see what I'm talking about by just imagining if the illegal immigrants were gone - things would be very different. Now there are immigrants who do contribute to society and become better citizens than those born here but they aren't the majority and that's the problem.
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Half of illegal border crossers from Mexico caught
Immigration authorities caught 54 percent of the people who illegally entered the U.S. From Mexico last year, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report obtained by the AP. A different counting method pegged the rate at 81 percent Ref. Source 5b.
The White House will publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants:
The Secretary of Homeland Security will be publishing a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants, and of the cities that refused to turn them in for deportation. Ref. Source 4a.
I love them. They make our country vibrant and growing. My grandparents on both sides were immigrants. One set came from Greece and one from Italy. At the time there were studies that "Proved" they were inferior because they came from Southern Europe. The truth is, we need immigration. We just need to control it a bit.