WASHINGTON, D.C.: Some 11.5 million foreigners, among them Filipinos, are living in the United States without proper immigration documents, according to estimates released by the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday (Saturday in Manila).
The figures, as of January 2011, show little difference from the 11.6-million figure published in 2010.
“These results suggest little to no change in the unauthorized immigrant population from 2010 to 2011,” the department said in a report.
It is unlikely that the number of these migrants increased after 2007, “given relatively high US unemployment, improved economic conditions in Mexico, record low numbers of apprehensions of unauthorized immigrants at US borders, and greater levels of border enforcement,” it added.
Mexicans represented 59 percent of all the undocumented migrants, followed by 14 percent from three Central American nations—six percent from El Salvador, five percent from Guatemala and three percent from Honduras.
China, the Philippines, India, South Korea and Vietnam all accounted for two percent each.
The department said that 31 percent of the unauthorized migrants—defined as all foreign-born non-citizens who are not legal residents—entered the country before 1995, 55 percent entered between 1995 and 2004, and only 14 percent have entered since 2005. –AFP
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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