3/86Estimated number of white South Africans who emigrate each month: 3,000
1/88Portion of immigrants to the United States who settle in California: 1/4
12/88Chances that a white American man is self-employed: 1 in 7
Chances that a foreign-born Korean-American man is: 1 in 4
3/88Average number of attempts a Mexican makes before successfully crossing the U.S. border and landing a job: 3
12/90Minimum amount each Soviet family emigrating to Israel this year received in Israeli government subsidies: $11,000
Estimated percentage of Soviet immigrants to Israel this year who are professionals: 55
7/92Highest number of immigrants that ever passed through Ellis Island in a single year: 1,285,000
Number of immigrants entering the United States in 1991: 1,827,167
10/93Chances that a US. resident is foreign-born: 1 in 13
3/93Percentage of Mexican-Americans who say there are too many immigrants in the United States: 75
3/93Chances that a person moving to California last year was an immigrant: 1 in 3
3/93Chances that a Jew living in the former U.S.S.R. has applied for permission to emigrate to Israel since 1989: 3 in 4
1/94Percentage of all immigrants to the United States during the 1980s who were receiving welfare in 1989: 4
1/94Rank of Ecuadorans, Italians, and Poles, among the largest illegal immigrant groups in New York State: 1,2,3
1/95Chances that a legal immigrant to the United States from the former Soviet Union receives welfare: 1 in 6
11/95Number of illegal Vietnamese immigrants the German government plans to deport over the next five years: 40,000
Chances that a native-born American with a high school diploma has a doctorate: 1 in 1,000
Chances today: 1 in 18
7/96Number of German police officers who will live with immigrants in Bonn for a week this year for “sensitivity training”: 10
7/97Lines of Walt Whitman poetry entered as evidence last year in New York’s dispute with New Jersey over Ellis Island: 37
8/98Estimated number of undocumented migrants who have died since 1993 while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border: 1,185
5/99Percentage change since 1997 in the annual number of people seeking asylum in Switzerland: +72
Points by which the percentage of Americans of African descent has changed since then: -2.8
6/00Number of immigrants Japan would require in order to maintain its present workforce through the year 2050: 30,450,000
7/00Chance that a U.S. major league baseball player is foreign-born: 1 in 5
11/01Percentage change since 1996 in the number of U.S. apprehensions of people trying to cross the Mexican border: +9
Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. border guards assigned there: +60
Percentage change since 1999 in the number of people who died on U.S. soil while crossing the border illegally: +56
4/01Estimated percentage of immigrants to Israel from former Soviet states since 1998 who were not Jewish by birth: 60
9/02Number of Jewish immigrants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in June that he wants to attract to Israel: 1,000,000
2/03Chances that a new student at the University of California at Berkeley last fall had at least one foreign-born parent: 2 in 3
1/04Rank of oil exports and money sent home by U.S. immigrants, respectively, among Mexico’s largest sources of income: 1,2
11/04Percentage by which John Ashcroft cut the number of judgeships on the federal Board of Immigration Appeals in 2002: 50
3/04Percentage change since 2000 in immigration to Israel: -65
2/05Rank of the Vlaams Blok, Belgium’s far-right anti-immigration party, among the most popular in Flanders: 1
3/05Percentage of Britons who say their neighborhood would disapprove if more Iraqi immigrants moved in: 64
Percentage who say this about black immigrants from Africa: 43
4/05Percentage of U.S.-born Mexican Americans who have suffered from some psychological disorder: 48
Percentage of Mexican immigrants who have: 29
7/05Estimated amount that illegal immigrants pay into Social Security each year: $6,400,000,000
7/05Average percentage of the U.K. population that Britons believe to be immigrants: 21
Actual percentage: 8
8/05Factor by which the unemployment rate among Jewish immigrants to Germany exceeds the national average: 3.5
4/06Percentage of Canadians who say that immigrants are a “good influence” on their nation: 77
Percentage of Americans and Germans, respectively, who say this: 49, 35
5/06Average number of Africans who have legally emigrated to the United States each year since 2000: 55,000
6/06Estimated number of illegal Irish immigrants in the United States: 25,000
6/06Length, in miles, of a barrier that Saudi Arabia has proposed to build in order to seal its border with Iraq: 560
Number of electronically controlled gates that would be placed along its length: 135
9/06Average income of an African American today, expressed as a percentage of the average income of a white American: 74
Average income of an American child of Mexican immigrants, expressed in the same terms: 71
9/06Percentage change since 1991 in the average fee charged by smugglers of illegal Chinese immigrants into the U.S.: +100
9/06Number of Chinese illegals who have been caught by the United States but China has so far refused to take back: 39,000
10/07Chance that a child of immigrants to Germany is granted a spot at a college-preparatory high school: 1 in 7
10/07Percentage change since 2004 in U.S. immigration to Canada: +46
Percentage change since then in total retail sales in Crawford, Texas: –27
11/07Portion of whites and African Americans, respectively, who say that immigrants take American jobs: 1/4, 1/3
11/07Percentage change in U.S. residential-construction employment since March 2006, if illegal immigrants are counted: –15
Percentage change if illegal immigrants are excluded: –4
7/07Percentage of workers at Russia’s retail markets that can be foreign-born, according to a law that took effect in April: 0
Portion of the stalls at these markets that are now empty: 1/4
8/07Percentage of conservative voters who said in May that they favor amnesty for illegal immigrants: 55
Percentage who said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who favored such a plan: 66
4/08Chance that a Silicon Valley technology company started since 1995 was founded by Indian or Chinese immigrants: 1 in 3
4/08Estimated portion of worldwide immigration that is into Second or Third World nations: 2/5
1/09Number of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African men detained in the U.S. in the eight weeks after 9/11: 1,182
Number charged with an immigration violation: 762
2/09Number of Iraqi stray dogs that Operation Baghdad Pups has helped emigrate to the United States since 2003: 66
Number currently on the waiting list: 50