Between 2008 and 2009, 2.4 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the United States even though 8.2 million jobs vanished over the same period

Figures for 2010 show that the foreign-born working age population is growing five times faster than the comparable native-born population. Nearly three-quarters of the 1.2 million jobs created in 2010 went to foreign-born workers. Nearly one out of every five pupils enrolled in public schools in the United States — about 10 million students — is either an immigrant or the U.S.-born child of an immigrant including an estimated 1.1 million illegal immigrant children.