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A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005
• Center for Immigration Studies8 million new immigrants entered the United States since 2000 -- some 3.7 million of them illegal aliens. That's two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.