The past five years have been record breaking....for illegal immigration.

From our friends at CIS:

Report: Last Five Years Highest Immigration in
History Illegal Aliens Are Almost Half of New
Arrivals WASHINGTON (December 2005) --

As the nation considers immigration proposals from
Congress and the President, a Center for
Immigration Studies analysis of new Census Bureau
data shows that the immigrant population (legal
and illegal) reached a new high in 2005.

The data, which the Bureau has not yet analyzed,
also show that 2000-2005 is the highest five-year
period of new immigration (legal and illegal) in
American history. Almost half of new arrivals are
estimated to be illegal aliens.

The new report provides a detailed picture of the
socio-economic status of immigrants, including
estimates for illegal aliens. States with the largest
increase in immigrants are California, Texas Georgia,
New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Washington, Virginia, Arizona, Tennessee, Minnesota,
and Nevada.

Embargoed copies of the report, ''Immigrants at
Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of American's Foreign-
Born Population in 2005,'' are available to the media.

The study will be posted to the Center's site at
http://www.cis.org/ on December 12. Steven Camarota,
author of the report and the Center's Director of
Research, will release the report at a press conference
on Monday, December 12, at 10 a.m. in the Murrow
Room of the National Press Club, 14th and F streets,
N.W.

For more information, contact Steven Camarota at
(202) 466-8185 or sac@cis.org.