Right now, on a rolling average every year we have about 800,000 new people sworn in as new citizens. 800,000. If you look at that historically, it is high. When I was a child, that number [of new citizens] 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. (02:13–02:17)
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Asserts that the annual number of new U.S. citizens was about 200,000 in the past.
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