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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by atombender on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:37PM (#44242278)
The New York Times put it at about 2.4m/year, or around 10m total: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-s....
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by kstrauser on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:00PM (#44242459)
That's gross immigration, not net. People leave, too. The government's numbers show the net being approximately +1M/year.
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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by atombender on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:46PM (#44249406)
Did you actually read the article?

> Annual net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving — averaged 2.4 million people from 2021 to 2023, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed eight million people.

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