The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
Questions tagged [immigration]
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Is the border fence basically complete as Obama said, and did they go above and beyond what was requested?
Obama said in a speech in El Paso, Texas May 10, 2011 (full transcript)
They wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete.
And we've gone further. We tripled the number of intelligence analysts working the border. I've deployed…
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How many non-citizens were removed from the US from 2009–2015?
I'm trying to reconcile two different sets of data.
The House Judiciary committee reports:
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Criminal Alien Removals
Non-Criminal…
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Was it harder for Syrian Christians to immigrate to the US than Muslims?
As a justification for his intention to prioritise Christian refugees over Muslim refugees, President Trump said:
Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States? If you were a…
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Are three quarters of immigrants "flooding Europe today" from central Africa?
In a November 16, 2016 op-ed in the New York Times titled Donald Trump, Help Heal the Planet’s Climate Change Problem, Thomas L. Friedman claims:
When you visit the Pentagon, ask the generals about climate change. Here’s what they’ll tell you: A…
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Is Saudi Arabia hosting ~2.5 million Syrian refugees?
After being criticized for not doing enough to help refugees, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that they have been helping after all. Among others, it specifically claims that it has taken more than 2.5 million Syrians.
The…
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Have there recently been any immigrants illegally crossing the Mexico-Texas border from South Africa?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on Twitter:
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.
Biden is doing nothing to stop…
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Do leftist groups claim that "the Caravan" was "cooked up by Republican operatives"?
The Wired article Alert: Don't Believe Everything You Read About the Migrant Caravan covers various claims from the right, with specific sources attributed: Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, President Trump, and Vice President Pence. Additionally,…
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Were only 17 of 500 sexual assaults on Cologne's Silvesternacht reported in crime statistics?
Quoting the article on Express.de:
There were more than 500 sexual assaults in Cologne's Silvesternacht. [...] In police criminal statistics for Cologne, however, the sex mob did not lead to a rapid increase in the number of cases in January. Just…
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Is this photo of a receipt stating "Tip for U.S. citizens only" real?
This photo has been making the rounds on facebook. Was this a legitimate bill being paid?
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Did Palestinians from the PA with family reunification based IDs engage in terror activities, pre-2003?
While answering this Q, I ran into the following claim by Israeli government, cited by a Haaretz article "Gov't seeks to extend order that can curb Arab family reunification"
... on the grounds of "increasing involvement by Palestinians from the…
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Are 20% of cleaners, store packers, and food and hospitality workers in Australia on temporary visas?
In a recent Facebook post, Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts makes the claim that 20% of Australia's cleaners, store packers and food hospitality workers are on temporary migrant visas.
According to a report from the Australian Population…
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Does a citizenship question on the US census affect participation?
There is currently a legal battle over changing the US census to include a citizenship question.
The plaintiffs argued that participation in the census will be depressed by the addition of the new question, causing a significant undercount. If the…
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Do illegal immigrants commit more murders than mass shooters?
Notable claim
The claim I wish to examine is from dcwhispers.com,
Case in point—the number of deaths, assaults, and sex crimes,
including human trafficking, taking place on America’s southern border
dwarfs by many times over the number of…
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Is large Muslim immigration within an European country a cause for higher sexual violence in that particular country?
An article in FrontPage Magazine argues that:
the more open a European country is to Muslim mass migration, the more
dangerous it is to women.
It provides various examples of European countries that accept quite many immigrants over the time and…
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Are roughly 90% of H-1B visa workers in the IT sector paid below-market rates?
In an article penned last year by (present and former) IEEE-USA presidents, we read that (my experpts and emphsis):
In 2014 (the last year we have good data), Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, and Tata Consultancy used 21,695 visas, or more than 25…
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