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Texas - The top countries of origin for immigrants were Mexico (55.1% of immigrants), India (5%), El Salvador (4.3%), Vietnam (3.7%), and China (2.3%).
It’s not 7/11
It’s the IT developers, computer programmers, and software engineers that have a total monopoly in the IT industry.
Since 1998, about 100,000 of them arrive in the U.S., every year from India, and spread all over the U.S., to take six figures jobs.
You won’t agree because don’t understand this.
More like 400,000 each year if you only count those on various types of work visas. However, they typically bring their spouse and children along, and they aren't counted in that 400,000. Most end up getting green cards and become permanent residents. Many eventually become citizens.
Foreigners should pay double tax. Why do we let them take our jobs??
Because they work on false paperwork, which means they pay into income taxes and Social Security and other programs they will never receive any benefits from. The cost to us is far less than the uneducated people who were born here, and we may even be in the black if the numbers could be isolated.
Weighed against those who are out of work and go on the dole (such as the coal miners in Appalachia) instead of retraining and moving to find a new job, I'll support the immigrants any day.
That's pretty interesting. Some of them I'm curious about--I wonder what the draw is for Germans to New Mexico, for example?
ETA: I found this link. Per this, in 2017, Germans only made up 2% of the nearly 197,000 immigrants (so somewhere around 4000 Germans moving to New Mexico.) Put that way, it doesn't sound quite as impressive.
That number is likely due to members of the German Air Force being stationed at Holloman AFB for many years.
Some number either stayed or returned after their service ended.
That's pretty interesting. Some of them I'm curious about--I wonder what the draw is for Germans to New Mexico, for example?
ETA: I found this link. Per this, in 2017, Germans only made up 2% of the nearly 197,000 immigrants (so somewhere around 4000 Germans moving to New Mexico.) Put that way, it doesn't sound quite as impressive.
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