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CLASS 19��Tuesday - Oct 29��BEGIN - 2943
The most �important issue…
World Population: 8.2 billion���How many of this 8.2 billion would like to permanently migrate to another country?
World Population: 8.2 billion��900 million would like to permanently migrate to
another country – 2021��16% of adults around the world
First choice for where these 900M people want to live:
Gallup - 2021
Percent of population who want to permanently migrate - 2021
Gallup - 2021
Unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2022 – 11 million people
Mexico – 4M
Cent Amer – 2.1M
Caribbean – 725K
South Amer – 1M
Asia – 1.8M
Europe & Canada – 775K
Middle East – 180K
Africa – 375K
Pew Research - 2024
Mexico – 4M
India – 725K
Guatemala – 675K
Honduras – 525K
Share of Global Wealth:��Richest 10 percent own 75%��Poorest 50 percent own 1%
Suisse Global Wealth Databook
1965 Nationality Act��Entry into U.S. based on skills
and family relationships
(and not national origin)��LOOPHOLE: Immigrants were able
to sponsor family members�
1994 – Appointed to Chair the Commission on Immigration Reform
United States:�Total population – 335M�(number who are foreign born – 48M)���Germany:�Total population – 85M�(number who are foreign born – 31M)
CLASS 19��Upload to:��“Class 19 MANDATORY�SELFIE (END QUIZ)”
Gallup 2024
Gallup 2024
Ian from KC, Kansas asked
on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Why is more money spent on undocumented immigrants vs the US homeless,, poverty citizens, and veterans?”
Sam Willard from Missouri asked
on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“What was the outcome of Harris's visits to Southern countries?
What will she do more as President
instead of VP?”
AmericanProt from ‘Merica
asked on the YouTube
Live Stream Chat:
“Why is Japan and Israel
allowed to have a racially
exclusive society
but not America?”
Chicken Pork Adobo from Australia asked on the YouTube
Live Stream Chat:
“In the Philippines we have
a culture of shaming Filipino
illegal immigrants.
Is it also true in your country?”
Daguerreian Codeguerreian Code from Aurora, Colorado asked
on the YouTube Live Stream Chat:
“Are you afraid that Trump
may be elected and how
that may affect your life?”
@zzztek says:
"Permanently Migrate". Humans are somewhat nomadic, are very curious how others live (grass is greener), and are unhappy with their current country.
I am not surprised the number is low because people are also SCARED of change even those that live in "hell-holes""