From the Center for American Progress: The Facts on Immigration Today

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The foreign-born share of the U.S. population has more than doubled since the 1960s. The immigrant population was 5.4 percent of the total U.S. population in 1960, when 1 in 20 residents were foreign-born. In 2011 immigrants made up 13 percent of the total U.S. population, meaning that they were one in every eight U.S. residents. Still, today’s share of the immigrant population as a percentage of the total U.S. population remains below its peak in 1890, when 14.8 percent of the U.S. population had immigrated to the country.

By 2041 there will be no clear racial or ethnic majority in the United States. By 2041 Latinos are expected to make up 30 percent of the U.S. population, and the Asian American population will grow to 8 percent of the total U.S. population.

Immigration reform will increase the earnings of all Americans. Immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, such as S. 744, will increase the earnings of all American workers by $470 billion over the next decade.

President Obama’s administration deported 1.5 million immigrants during his first term in office. In FY 2012, 409,849 people were deported. Though 96 percent of deportations fell under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement “priority removals” category, the total number of deportations last year sets a record high in the United States.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2013/04/03/59040/the-facts-on-immigration-today-3/

None of this will matter to the anti-"amnesty" folks on the right that control the House. The votes are probably there to pass immigration reform with Democrats and non-tea party republicans, but the Orange Man is afraid he will lose his Speaker job if he angers the far-right.

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1. K&R

Democrats need to push this legislation across the goal line.

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2. House Chairman Rejects 'Special' Citizenship Path

VERONA, Va. August 20, 2013 (AP)
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is rejecting the idea of giving immigrants in the U.S. illegally a special pathway to citizenship.

Republican congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia told a town hall meeting in the Shenandoah Valley on Monday that the House must chart its own course on immigration even if it never results in a bill President Barack Obama can sign. He said that he'll do everything he can to ensure the House never takes up the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill, which includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.

Goodlatte said the House will proceed with individual immigration bills once lawmakers return to Washington in September from their summer recess, beginning with bills on interior enforcement, border security and workplace verification.

The focus of the House's Republican majority should be on how to "reform immigration the right way to show how it should be done, even if it doesn't go all the way through to be signed by this president. Because I have a hard time, like you do, envisioning him signing some of these things," Goodlatte told one questioner. "It doesn't mean we shouldn't at least show the American people that we are interested in solving this very serious problem that we have in our country."

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-chairman-rejects-special-citizenship-path-20006971