When I was a child, that number was around 200,000. So we are right now letting in legally a very high number. Right now in this country, one sixth of the people are foreign born. We have never had so many people in our country foreign born as we do now. That is more than even in the late 1800s when we had all the immigration from Eastern Europe and Germany and what have you. But for whatever reason, they don't talk about that. (02:26–02:32)
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Asserts that the current number of foreign-born individuals in the U.S. is at an all-time high.
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