A survey by The Center for Immigration Studies (Washington, DC) reported that immigration over the past seven years was the highest for any seven-year period in American history - 10.3 million new immigrants, more than half without legal status. One in eight people living in the United States is an immigrant, total of 37.9 million people - the highest level since the 1920s.
A good read, from the late 'dean' of immigration economics:
Julian L. Simon (1999). The Economic Consequences of Immigration. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 434 p. [2nd ed.]). Immigrants--United States; United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects. Examines each significant economic mechanisms by which immigrants affect natives (transfer-and-tax system, production capital, human capital, physical infrastructure, productivity, environmental externalities, unemployment); concludes immigration is, on the whole, beneficial to U.S. natives (similar experience in Canada, Australia) - immigrants displace fewer jobs than they create, are better educated than majority of U.S. workers, are no more a drain on welfare system than general population.
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