Michael
May 12th 2010, 08:10 PM
I picked these from the answers to a quiz in Foreign Policy magazine. I'm sharing them because they are very interesting 'factoids'. :)
1. In order to deport the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States en masse, it would take more than 200,000 buses, stretching more than 1,800 miles, according to a Center for American Progress report. The cost would be nearly $300 billion over five years.
3. Afghanistan's insurgent-overrun country may have a per capita GDP of only $461 and and unemployment rate of 40 percent, but its economy was booming last year at an estimated rate of 15.7 percent, according to the IMF.
5. Australian users of social-networking sites spent an average of almost 7 hours using such online services in December 2009 - Americans were second at 6 hours, 9 minutes, while the Japanese were third at 2 hours, 50 minutes - according to data analyzed by Nielsen.
The first one explains why mass deportation and/or 'touch and go' policies are entirely non-functional policies in the US immigration debate. The second has been financed by the US taxpayer and the third one is just plain surprising! :D
1. In order to deport the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States en masse, it would take more than 200,000 buses, stretching more than 1,800 miles, according to a Center for American Progress report. The cost would be nearly $300 billion over five years.
3. Afghanistan's insurgent-overrun country may have a per capita GDP of only $461 and and unemployment rate of 40 percent, but its economy was booming last year at an estimated rate of 15.7 percent, according to the IMF.
5. Australian users of social-networking sites spent an average of almost 7 hours using such online services in December 2009 - Americans were second at 6 hours, 9 minutes, while the Japanese were third at 2 hours, 50 minutes - according to data analyzed by Nielsen.
The first one explains why mass deportation and/or 'touch and go' policies are entirely non-functional policies in the US immigration debate. The second has been financed by the US taxpayer and the third one is just plain surprising! :D