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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by oezi on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:20PM (#41028236)
1/10th the number of illegal immigrants? The US gets less illegal immigrants than Europe per capita. If you look at the charts from the last 10 years of the immigrants as percentage of population you recognize that the US is seeing slower growth while European countries see faster immigration. This is happening while the US has a high immigration rate of desirable skilled workers.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/migration?tab=chart&tim...

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by Aloisius on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:48PM (#41029491)
Even on a per-capita basis, the US has considerably higher levels of both legal and illegal immigration.

About 3% of the US population is in the US illegally compared to about 1% in the EU.

Overall, about 15.8% of the US population are foreign born, compared to 6.1% of the EU.

Just like in the US, immigrants aren’t evenly distributed though so some countries have far higher percentages - just as some US states do.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by oezi on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:25PM (#41029703)
From the chart I linked it seems clear to me that the US doesn't have high new immigration numbers anymore relative to its population.
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