Ramesh: Linda’s contention that immigration is lower now than in 2002 is a fiction promoted by the pro-amnesty, high-immigration Pew Hispanic Center. My research director discussed it in 2005 near the beginning of this report. The short version is that there could have been a brief slowdown after 2001, but “if there was a slowdown, the 2005 data indicate that immigration has resumed its record pace. And the 7.9 million immigrants who arrived between 2000 to 2005 make it the highest five-year period of immigration in American history.” There were a total of about 32.5 million immigrants in 2002; now there are more than 36 million. And in 2006, legal immigration alone was nearly 1.3 million, up from 700,000 in 2003.