[lbo-talk] Emigration from the USA (was Woj & America)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug:
> 
> Interesting. When I was doing my State of the USA Atlas in 1993, my 
> researcher tried to track down info on emigration from the U.S. She 
> was told that such stats didn't exist, but that best estimates were 
> that about a third of all immigrants eventually left. No one had a 
> clue how many native-born Americans left. Funny the INS should now be 
> publishing this - during the Bush years, of all things!
> 

Not long ago NPR had an interview with a Canadian immigration officer on
the subject of asylum seekers from the US.  The officer said that such
individuals exist (albeit did not provide any numbers) but were usually
turned down on the assumption that they had no grounds for asylum
because it was unlikely that the US system would deny them a due
process.  That however, changed after 9/11, as the number of asylum
seekers increased and their claims were being taken seriously.

Wojtek