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- Hacker News
- - arent native americans the only real american?
- isnt everyone else just an immigrant?
by vivzkestrel - Buries the fucking lede by putting this at the end
> Relative to the total population, the share of immigrants in 2024 was approximately the same as in 1890. If we only look at the last few decades, we miss this historical perspective — there have been periods where immigrants made up a similarly large share of the country.
by ChiperSoft - Why is immigration high?
I expect the answer has to do wit higher populations, easier transport, increased knowledge of emmigration opportunities via presence of the Internet, climate change, and globalization.
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by ncr100 - Takeaway:
>If we look at the number of foreign-born residents, the 2024 estimate was the highest in the Census Bureau’s series, which stretches back to 1850. So, on that measure, the 2024 figure was unprecedented.
Inclusive of legal/illegal.
by quaddoggy - The content of this article doesn’t show what the title says.
Neither the foreign-born population nor the proportion of foreign-born individuals say anything about the “current immigration”.
But I guess it works, because nowhere is “immigration” defined either…