US Immigration News

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that women from the top-ten immigrant-sending countries to the US collectively have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As a group, immigrants from these countries have 23 percent more children than women in their home countries.

The US Homeland Security spending Bill also included money for 250 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators and 460 detention and removal personnel.

This also brings the total number of detention beds to 20,300.

"The Bill is critical to successfully tightening enforcement along our borders. However, it is just the first step," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Friday.

For thousands of immigrant women professionals who arrive in the United States as spouses on their husbands' visas, being forced to stay at home and not work is difficult and depressing. The Washington Post Service reports.

The U.S. State Department has announced that registration for the 2007 Diversity Visa Lottery, also know as the Green Card Lottery, will begin at noon local time on October 5, 2005. Persons seeking to enter the lottery program must register online through the designated Internet website during the registration period. Applications will be accepted from noon October 5, 2005 through noon December 4, 2005.

Legal and illegal immigration into the United States declined as of 2001 after reaching a high in 2000, a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center found.

"The number of migrants coming to the United States each year, legally and illegally, grew very rapidly starting in the mid-1990s, hit a peak at the end of the decade, and then declined substantially after 2001," the report found.