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According to the Migration Policy Institute, in 2019, approximately 30% of the population had arrived in the country within the past 10 years.

Considering the green card wait has increased 400% in the past 2 years, it’s safe to assume this number is dramatically higher now.

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> Considering the green card wait has increased 400% in the past 2 years, it’s safe to assume this number is dramatically higher now.

No, its not; actual volume of immigration has been flat. Wait times are a measure of the degree to which per category and per country quotas are misaligned with demand, not an indicator of immigration volume.

Do you have a source to backup your claim? USCIS is telling me different. There is currently a 4-year wait on secondary green cards, in which 2021 there was a 2 year wait. According to the Center of iImmigration Studies, immigration has doubled since Biden took office: https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Population-Hits-Nearly-48...

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