The total 832,014 new permanent residents do not include migrants on temporary, nonimmigrant visas — which allow foreign nationals to come to the U.S. temporarily for work, study, tourism and the like. As the subcommittee notes, the number also does not include those migrants who overstayed the terms of their visas.
The number of green cards the Obama administration granted to migrants from the Middle East increased dramatically over a single year, according to a new analysis of recently published government data.
While the budget for deportations has grown substantially over the past four years, the number of actual removals has plummeted.
The United States admits more than twice the number of immigrants from majority-Muslim nations than from countries in the European Union, according to a Senate analysis of Department of Homeland Security data.
Immigration is another form of wealth redistribution, according to Harvard University economist George Borjas.
A Disney IT worker who was laid off and replaced by foreign workers along with hundreds of his colleagues, broke down in tears before a Senate panel Thursday while telling his story.
