Immigrants

Since 1970 the number of legal immigrants has increased from 10 million to 45 million as the percentage of the population increased from 5% to 15%. Prior to the new immigration law of 1965 most immigrants came from Europe but since that time most have come from Latin America and Asia. Since 2020 the United States has taken in 50% of all immigrants in the world. This does not count the many millions of illegal immigrants and got a ways. English speaking countries like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have merit based immigration rules. This means the immigrants are graded based on their skills one of which is to speak English. Polls show that 900 million people around the world would like to emigrate and 180 million would like to come to the United States. This has become more apparent in recent immigrants. Almost 30% in the US came from Mexico. The next four countries, India, Philippines, China and Vietnam accounted for 15%. If a merit system were installed the mix would shift to immigrants from India and China. This is because of education and ability to speak English. So far this year 3 million illegals have crossed the border not counting 600,000 got a ways and they have come from 140 different countries.