Who is migrating to America and why..?
In an arduous process of surveying individuals, the Gallup organization reports on more characteristics than simply the obvious yes and no answers. Gallup doesn’t just ask, how is the President doing, no – no, Gallup seeks information on how well or unwell the President is doing based on race relations, health care, our elderly, the mood of the nation, immigration, and one heck of a lot more. Recently while looking over some immigration data we waited until last to get to Gallup inasmuch as the organization is thorough, and openly discloses where it gets the data used as well as the scientific method used to accumulate and interpret it. Well one of the categories we are very interested in are the migratory patterns of those seeking to get into the United States. (See Gallup report here, thank you.) These differences may partly reflect the emphasis each country’s immigration policy places on different categories of migrants. In the U.S., Department of Homeland Security statistics show f