"Top 10 legal and illegal immigrant nationalities in the U.S."

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Top 10 legal and illegal immigrant nationalities in the U.S.

Who is coming to America these days?

LEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Anyone who has gone through the Immigration process in the U.S. knows it’s not for the faint of heart. Yet no matter how difficult the process, there is no shortage of applicants.  Combining all those who received Legal Permanent Residence (i.e. green card) and all those who were naturalized (i.e. became citizens) in 2009, our total immigration tally was nearly 1.9 million persons. The breakdowns of the top 10 countries that make up those immigrants are*:

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Gathering a true picture of the number of Illegal Immigrants is notoriously challenging and fraught with error, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security attempts to estimate this yearly. (OhMyGov has also reported on other efforts to measure the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. which suggested far higher numbers.) From these estimates, the top 10 countries that make up the illegal population in the U.S are as follows*:

Country
   
Mexico  6,650,000
   
El Salvador  530,000
   
Guatemala  480,000

More reading and charts here - http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/05/14/top-10-legal-and-illegal-immigrant-nationalities-in-the-u-s.aspx

Legal immigration in one year = 1.9 million

Illegal immigration= over 9 million

Where do they get jobs?  How are they supporting themselves?