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
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International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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.
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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