As recently as 1965 the total was under 300.000. During the same 5year period. the category of "immediate relatives" of U.S. citizens has grown 40 percentfrom 114.000 to 152.000. Please keep in mind that under present law there are no numerical well known and I shall not discuss limits on this type of family reuniflca- them here. tion. Not only do we observe this high In this same period. refugee admis- total number of legal and illegal immisions have ranged from 5.000 in 1977 grants. but only a small fraction of to over 200.000 in 1980. four times the them are individually admitted for 50.000 level specified as the normal qualities which are likely to benefit flow in the Refugee Act of 1980. A sa- the Nation as a whole. and this is limlient fact: The United States today is ited only to an analysis of job market taking in more legal immigrants and impact. Less than 5 percent even of refugees for permanent resettlement new legal immigrants are certified by than the rest of the world combined- the Labor Department as not causing perhaps twice as many. unemployment or adversely affecting In addition. hundreds of thousands the wages and working conditions of of illegal immigrants now cross our U.S. workers. borders each year. Some estimate the As a result of this and of the fact net annual inflow at 500.000. The that the present labor certification present inflow is probably substantial- process is probably of limited effecly higher than it was 10 years ago.
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