One reason for this immigration windfall is that young immigrants will compensate for the low U.S. birthrate.
President Barack Obama announced in June his deferred-deportation program allowing young immigrants to apply for work visas.
The President and the Vice President were moved by the stories of courage and determination these young immigrants shared.
That explains why the vast majority are young immigrants lacking marketable skills (and, often, command of the English language).
Early this year, Ms. Powell Jobs launched her campaign with TheDreamIsNow.org website, which features videos uploaded by young immigrants.
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Young immigrants have expressed enthusiasm for the policy, even though it won't help them attain citizenship or legal permanent residence.
Yet another, which triggered a huge response, eased the rules for young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.
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Most research on young immigrants finds that they flourish and contribute best if they hold on to aspects of their parents' cultures.
In 2010, Congress debated but did not approve the Dream Act, which would have given legal status to some young immigrants who came to the US as children.
In recent years, thousands of young immigrants, including Oday Guerrero and Anthony Ng, have fought for the ability of undocumented youth to remain in the country where they were raised.
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Tell them about all the young immigrants in this country who will no longer have to live in fear of being deported from the only country they have ever called home.
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On this site a few days ago, CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette expressed worry that the Boston bombing, allegedly by two alienated young immigrants, might harm the prospects for the Senate immigration deal.
The process is not always simple for young immigrants in the United States who don't have birth certificates or passports handy, said Abigail Calleja, consul for protection at the Mexican consulate in Atlanta.
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At a makeshift theatre in the port of Tel Aviv, hundreds of young immigrants from Melbourne, the Five Towns, and other points in the Anglophone diaspora gathered recently to hear from the newest phenomenon in Israeli politics, Naftali Bennett.
"The Republicans can't win by attacking this policy because they're attacking people who are innocent of any crime -- just being with their parents, " Schiller said last week about the administration's halt in deporting some young immigrants who came to America as children and were good students or served in the military.
Also, the administration recently halted deportations of DREAM Act-eligible immigrants -- young adult undocumented immigrants -- as it will redirect resources to deporting those who are deemed a greater threat, such as criminals.
In an unnamed English town, two young Pakistani immigrants, Jugnu and Chanda, set up home without marrying.
He rejected the DREAM Act that would provide a pathway to citizenship for some young illegal immigrants.
He also opposed the DREAM Act, which would have offered legal status to young illegal immigrants who went to college or joined the military.
Although the profusion of temporary contracts has brought greater flexibility, it has laid the burden of adjustment disproportionately on the low-skilled, the young and immigrants.
The measure has echoes of the so-called Dream Act, which offered permanent residency to young undocumented immigrants, but failed to pass after years of congressional stalemate.
The White House points to steps the president did take, like an executive order to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants who entered the country as children.
McCain said the lawmakers had reached an agreement on protections for young illegal immigrants brought to the country as children and on visas for workers, but declined to provide specifics.
She says she wasn't planning on voting in the U.S. election this year but was inspired by the Obama administration's recent announcement that it would stop deporting young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children.
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She later got a license after she qualified for the federal program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows young illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. and obtain work-authorization forms and Social Security cards.
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Maryland was the first to vote on the issue following an announcement from the White House this summer that it would revise deportation enforcement to allow many young illegal immigrants to legally live and work in the United States.
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Certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney led the Republican counterattack, accusing President Barack Obama of undermining the possibility of long-term immigration reform by taking the partial step of halting deportations of some young illegal immigrants who came to America as children.
Romney pledged to "work from the beginning of my administration to put in place a piece of legislation which deals with this issue on a long-term basis, " saying young illegal immigrants who serve in the military "should be able to become permanent residents of the United States, " a step short of full citizenship.
If the U.S. is willing to provide work visas for young, illegal immigrants, then it should also be willing to implement policies to retain well-educated, foreign nationals.
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