Terrorism | Immigration Must Be Restricted to Protect America Against Terrorists

In 2002, there were more than 33,000,000 foreign-born residents living in the United States, approximately onefifth of all the people worldwide living outside the country of their birth. But that’s only one part of the phenomenon of population mobility. In 2001, in addition to granting permanent residence (green cards) to more than one million people, the United States also performed approximately thirty-three million inspections of foreign visitors (not immigrants) entering the United States legally through ports of entry—some of those inspections being of people who had entered...

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