Immigration Will Be Important in Future Generations, Background Checks for Green Cards Changed and ICE arrests 147 in San Diego
âºImmigration Numbers Will Continue to Increase
Those sick of the rising immigrant population, will only be angrier in the future, as the non-partisan, Pew Research Center has revealed that nearly one in five Americans will be an immigrant by 2050.
The Latino population will only increase and account for most of the population growth from now until 2050. The current percentage of Latinos is 14 percent and that number is expected to rise to 29 percent in 2050.
The only other group to have a rise is Asians from 5 percent now to 9 percent in 2050. The Black population is expected to stay at 13 percent and the non-Hispanic white population is expected to decrease from 67 percent now to 47 percent in 2050. The elderly population is expected to double in size.
A study by Dr. Mark Grey, Director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration at the University of Northern Iowa said, “Latino growth accounted for 66 percent of the state’s total population growth between 2000 and 2005.”
âº47,000 Applications for Green Cards to Be Completed
About 47,000 people who had been forced to wait a long time for permanent residency (green card), but that is about to change as the Bush administration is granting permanent residency to tens of thousands legal immigrants without completing FBI investigations.
Many of these cases, according to the Washington Post have been waiting about six months to be completed. “Overall, about 44 percent of the 320,000 pending immigration name checks before the FBI – including citizenship as well as green-card requests – have waited more than six months,” the newspaper reported.
The delays have been the biggest problem for many applicants for residency and citizenship. However, this change is only in the residency area. Those who have been waiting a while to obtain their citizenship will continue to wait.
âºICE Arrests 147 in San Diego
Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) arrested 147 “immigration fugitives” in San Diego and Imperial Counties, Calif. The operations ran through much of January. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, ICE spokesperson, Lauren Mack said of those arrested, 82 violated a deportation order or missed an immigration hearing; 67 of the total were found to have criminal records.
ICE established a Fugitive Operations Program in 2003. It now has 75 teams nationwide and 72,000 people have been arrested since then. In a press release by ICE they said that given their success, “Congress has authorized ICE to add 29 more Fugitive Operations Teams in fiscal year 2008.”
The potential ICE fugitive operations program office in Rock Island, Ill. would do similar things. In the press release of the San Diego arrests, ICE estimates that 586,000 fugitives are living in the United States.
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