Costs And Contributions: The Wave From South Of The Border
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Every year, hundreds of millions of people enter the US via land ports
of entry, and the INS each year apprehends over 1.3 million aliens at or near
the border. Over 90 percent of those apprehended near the border are Mexicans,
and some who enter the US legally and illegally are carrying drugs int ....
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.... economic progress after their arrival--as measured
by their total incomes--and that some of their behavior converges rapidly to
that of natives, e.g., they rapidly abandon buses and drive cars to work. In
southern CA, one-third of all bus riders are recent immigrants.
Myers noted that immigration is raising other issues, including
overcrowded housing. The US definition of acceptable housing was two or less
persons per room until 1960, when the definition was change to one or less per
ro ....
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