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Originally posted by PiKA2001
Let's see those statistics then, because I find that really hard to believe.
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courtesy of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website and stats section (uscis.gov)
turns out we're both right (cause my stats were old)...
"nonimmigrant overstays" or those immigrants who came here legally and simply stayed past their paperwork DID account for a higher percentage than "border jumpers" up until the mid to late nineties
HOWEVER - as of 2000
"Roughly 2.3 million, or 33 percent, of the 7.0 million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States in January 2000 were estimated to be nonimmigrant overstays."
***new stats will not be available until the next census, so who knows...
my bad!
- marissa
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