| ▲ | wredcoll 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
I can't find a chart that is literally just number/year, but the chart at the top of https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... is about the closest I can find. If you look at it, you'll see that, yes, a million or two million or whatever immigrants arrived during the last year biden was in office. However, if you're not trying to use statistics to lie, what you'll also find is that millions came every year for the past fifty years, including the years trump was president. There might be some specific "record number" but only in the sense that the total population of humans increases every year so when the same percentage does the same thing as last year, the absolute number is now larger. And of course this all ignores the part where immigration is a huge benefit to america. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | satyrnein 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I think the graph you linked obscures the issue a bit by showing total immigrant population by year, which would change much more slowly than arrivals by year. I found a graph of arrivals by year here: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-u-s-net-immigration... It certainly seems to be a big increase under Biden, compared to the last 25 years. Anyway, I personally favor immigration, I just don't want to use statistics to lie to myself either! | |||||||||||||||||
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