immigrant strength test
In recent days we have witnessed how immigrants from the union
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to are able to hold mass rallies in more than a hundred cities with astonished eyes of various power groups in that country, the streets in cities like New York, Los Angeles (California), Atlanta (Georgia) and Washington are crowded by demonstrators calling for immigration reform generous and inclusive.
U.S. is estimated that there are about twelve million undocumented immigrants and the struggle over how to resolve their illegal status has worsened since 2004, when President George W.
Bush proposed a temporary worker program.
Immigrants have a specific demographically and economically in this country even though some might overlook, according to Pew Hispanic Center
dedicated to explore trends in the Latino population in the country: Mexico
represents the country source of 56% of undocumented percentage represents about 6.2 million.
Second are the Central Americans with 2.5 million (22%), followed by Asia with 1.5 million (13%), European and Canadian 600 000 (6%) and Africans and others 400 000 (3%) . Some data
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is important to emphasize that illegal immigrants employed in the United States are about 7.2 million and represent 5% of the U.S. labor force, amounting to 148 million workers.
Of the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants, 5.4 are men, 3.9 women and other children. In addition, 3.1 million children born de padres de indocumentados han nacido en territorio estadounidense en la última década.
Cerca del 60 % de los inmigrantes indocumentados trabajan en el sector formal e incluso realizan aportaciones a la seguridad social.
En el campo, el 24 % de la mano de obra es indocumentada, en el sector de la limpieza el 17 % son trabajadores sin papeles, en la construcción el 14 % y en la preparación de alimentos el 12 %.
El futuro es incierto y nada se ha conseguido a pesar de
algunas propuestas en el senado americano, esperemos que las presiones ejercidas por los inmigrantes alcance para lograr salir airosos en una de las batallas más feroces por la supervivencia de sus sueños.