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The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied ...
The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. [5] The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country. The types of ...
Immigration to the United States over time by region. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
Between April 2019-June 2024 Assange was imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh prison fighting extradition to the United States. In June 2024, Assange agreed to a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents in return for a sentence of time ...
The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration is the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration reports to the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.
The United States government first released a list of former U.S. citizens in a State Department letter to Congress made public by a 1995 Joint Committee on Taxation report. [4] That report contained the names of 978 people who had relinquished U.S. citizenship between January 1, 1994 and April 25, 1995. [5]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.
A specified number of legally defined refugees who are granted refugee status outside the United States are annually admitted under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 for firm resettlement. [1] [2] Other people enter the United States with or without inspection, and apply for asylum under section 1158. [3] Asylum in the United States has two