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Suggest splitting this article
[edit]Hello,
This article is over 300,000 bytes. The splitting guidelines suggest to split an article when it reaches or surpasses 100,000 bytes. Therefore, I think it is a good idea to split it at this time. If you oppose this, please add a comment with your rationale. Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 07:36, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
- I agree with you, so I support the split. deisenbe (talk) 02:04, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
- i think we should split it now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.28.81.85 (talk) 12:48, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
- This is the proposal as presently described on the article page:
It has been suggested that this article be split into articles titled Demographics of immigration to the United States, Effects of immigration to the United States, Legal issues of immigration to the United States, Public opinion of immigration to the United States and United States immigration policy.
- I agree that the present article is cumbersome and could benefit from being divided. It seems to me that it would be appropriate to keep law and policy in a single article, as law and policy intersect. I also wonder if effects and public opinion should be kept within a single article. Arllaw (talk) 13:18, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
- User:Arllaw: Sorry for my late response. If effects and public opinion are to be in a single article, what should that article's title be? "Effects and public opinion of immigration to the United States"? If you have any suggestions, please feel free to state them; this goes for anyone else as well. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
- Perhaps something simpler, like "Impact of Immigration to the United States". Arllaw (talk) 23:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
- User:Arllaw: It might be necessary to do without conciseness in favour of clarity. I'm not sure if "impact" communicates the intended message, and I'm also concerned that it could be a colloquialism in this context. I'd like to hear what others think about this, though – perhaps there's a better title someone else could come up with, or perhaps the title you suggested is fine and I'm just overthinking it. I posted about this split discussion on the United States wikiproject talk page once before, but that didn't seem to attract much attention. Do you have any suggestions for how we can get more input here? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 01:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- "Impact of..." seems to be a common approach to titling articles, but you may find other common approaches. Even though less specific, a concise title can provide advantages to end-users over a "more precise" title that is excessively long. Arllaw (talk) 12:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- User:Arllaw: We can go with that then. So what is the list of proposed sub-articles now? I'll update the template on the article page accordingly. DesertPipeline (talk) 14:19, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- How about just "Effects of immigration"? Public opinion to it would be a section. deisenbe (talk) 11:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
- User:Deisenbe: That was my first suggestion. Depending on the merit of the points for and against such titles, and any other options that exist, we can decide which to use. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 16:12, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
- "Impact of..." seems to be a common approach to titling articles, but you may find other common approaches. Even though less specific, a concise title can provide advantages to end-users over a "more precise" title that is excessively long. Arllaw (talk) 12:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- User:Arllaw: It might be necessary to do without conciseness in favour of clarity. I'm not sure if "impact" communicates the intended message, and I'm also concerned that it could be a colloquialism in this context. I'd like to hear what others think about this, though – perhaps there's a better title someone else could come up with, or perhaps the title you suggested is fine and I'm just overthinking it. I posted about this split discussion on the United States wikiproject talk page once before, but that didn't seem to attract much attention. Do you have any suggestions for how we can get more input here? Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 01:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- Perhaps something simpler, like "Impact of Immigration to the United States". Arllaw (talk) 23:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
- User:Arllaw: Sorry for my late response. If effects and public opinion are to be in a single article, what should that article's title be? "Effects and public opinion of immigration to the United States"? If you have any suggestions, please feel free to state them; this goes for anyone else as well. Regards, DesertPipeline (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
- I doubt that's gonna do anything, the public opinion part is barely much to change, the article would still be too long to navigate comfortably. I suggest an alternative message: This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. Cleter (talk) 02:25, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
As anybody who's ever tried it knows, splitting an article is not as simple as it sounds. X-References may fail, so notes have to be copied and pasted. Plus there need to be new links associating the new articles. All the links to the present article—there are hundreds—need to be revised multiple times. To which new articles would the existing illustrations be moved? What new illustrations are available for the new articles? There is also the question of whether everything in the current article would properly fit into one of the new articles, and what to do if some of it doesn't. And there is also the not insignificant question of who would do what, and who would coordinate things. In my view, there has to be one person at least keeping track of all the parts of each revision.
Perhaps someone could explain to me what section(s) of the present article would properly be turned into an article on "United Ststes Immigration Policy", as suggested above. The history?
On looking at the existing article, it says absolutely nothing, and says that it is saying nothing, about the forced immigration of enslaved Africans until 1808, and clandestinely afterwards. They were not being counted as immigrants at the time, but in every sense I can think of, they were still immigrants. They came from foreign countries to the United States, where almost all of them remained. They were immigrants. And their numbers were substantial. They belong in the statistics. deisenbe (talk) 05:13, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
This discussion has been dormant for several months, so I've begun the process of splitting the article. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 23:43, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose: The opinion about the topic is a component of the topic itself and belongs within the primary article. Also, this proposal was made almost a year ago and should now be settled one way or the other. Keystone18 (talk) 18:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
American Council of Learned Societies
[edit]Why do editors keep citing the ACLS results as the final word on the 1790 population? Scholars have determined ACLS data inaccurate and unreliable for many decades now[1]. There are other sources that have revised these estimates. Jonathan f1 (talk) 08:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Section repeats, same text
[edit]There is repeating text under the heading "Exclusion Era" Calliope777 (talk) 19:11, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 28 April 2023
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Contemporary immigration numbers of lawful permanent residents should be updated with data from 2021 and 2022. 2021 data is here https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/2022_0405_plcy_lawful_permanent_residents_fy2021v2.pdf 2022 data is here https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration (there's a xlsx file that contains statistics for all 4 quarters of 2022. Abramprice87 (talk) 23:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 23:38, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
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Change table titled "Top 15 Countries of Origin of Permanent Residents, 2015–2021:" to include 2022 data released on 03/08/2023. That data can be found here: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration/year-end Abramprice87 (talk) 17:06, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
Not done for now: Abramprice87, may I suggest you copy the existing table over to your own userspace and update it yourself? Then when you're finished, reopen the edit request and point whoever answers to the updated table. Thanks, Xan747 (talk) 00:24, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hi there! finally got the updated table put together (pasted below). please change the table entitled "Top 15 Countries of Origin of Permanent Residents, 2015-2021" to include 2022 data posted here ( https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration/year-end). Note that the top 15 countries for 2022 have changed. Canada, Honduras, and Guatemala are now in the Top 15 and South Korea, Haiti, and Nigeria are not. I have retrieved the 2015-2021 data for Canada, Honduras, and Guatemala and removed the rows for South Korea, Haiti, and Nigeria.
Top 15 Countries of Origin of Permanent Residents, 2015–2022:[1] Country 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Mexico
158,619 174,534 170,581 161,858 156,052 100,325 107,230 138,723 India
64,116 64,687 60,394 59,821 54,495 46,363 93,450 125,130 China
74,558 81,772 71,565 65,214 62,248 41,483 49,847 68,100 Dominican Republic
50,610 61,161 58,520 57,413 49,911 30,005 24,553 39,472 Philippines
56,478 53,287 49,147 47,258 45,920 25,491 27,511 36,313 Cuba
54,396 66,516 65,028 76,486 41,641 16,367 23,077 31,347 El Salvador
19,487 23,449 25,109 28,326 27,656 17,907 18,668 30,478 Vietnam
30,832 41,451 38,231 33,834 39,712 29,995 16,312 23,804 Brazil
11,424 13,812 14,989 15,394 19,825 16,746 18,351 23,596 Colombia
17,316 18,610 17,956 17,545 19,841 11,989 15,293 21,433 Venezuela
9,144 10,772 11,809 11,762 15,720 12,136 14,412 19,956 Canada
19,309 19,349 18,469 14,337 14,723 11,297 12,053 19,313 Honduras
9,071 12,996 12,792 13,492 15,901 7,843 9,425 16,936 Guatemala
11,466 12,547 11,147 15,172 13,111 7,369 8,199 16,814 Jamaica
17,642 23,350 21,905 20,347 21,689 12,826 13,357 16,300 South Korea
17,138 21,801 19,194 17,676 18,479 16,244 12,351 16,058 Total 1,051,031 1,183,505 1,127,167 1,096,611 1,031,765 707,362 740,002 1,018,004
References
- ^ "Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR)". Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- Table markup edited so that table displays as I believe Abramprice87 intended. —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:05, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Article splitting template
[edit]The debate has gone nowhere these past years since July 2021. On resolving the issue, in accordance to rule number 8 on when to remove the template, it clearly states (ahem):
"You may remove a template when according to your best judgment the lack of edits and/or talk page discussion should be interpreted as the issue not worth fixing (as a form of "silent consensus"). Please note there is currently no consensus for general age-related removal of maintenance templates – that is, removing a template purely or chiefly because it is old is not considered a sufficient argument. Exception: removing POV-related templates whose discussions have gone dormant is encouraged, as addressed in the bullet point immediately above;"
Unless anyone has anything to say or anyone to introduce into the discussion, I will be bold and remove the template within 2 weeks. Thank you. Cleter (talk) 01:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Also number 4
- "When an article talk page discussion has not been initiated (for templates requesting it);" Cleter (talk) 14:39, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- I will be true to my word. 🅲🅻🅴🆃🅴🆁 (a word) 01:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Flags are excessively overused in this article. A lot of the immigrants left their original countries because they want to disassociate themselves with the regimes associated with those flags in the first place, and using those flags to represent them is not only inappropriate, but can be offensive. Furthermore, a lot of those flags are anachronistic, representing regimes or countries that didn't exist at the time the immigrants left. DHN (talk) 04:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
- I went ahead and removed them. DHN (talk) 05:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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Under Legal issues, add
In Department of State v. Muñoz, U.S. Supreme court opined that U.S. citizens do not have a fundamental liberty to admit their foreign spouses[1]
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