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VATANDAŞLIK, Göç, MÜLTECI VE YABANCILAR HUKUKUNDAK İ GÜNCEL GEL İŞMELERIl. Immigration and Naturalization Data ARrI(ft 6VThe American Community Survey (www.census.gov/acs/ PHIUPARTINwww) estimated there were 38.1 million foreign-born US residentsin 2007, including 11.7 million people bom in Mexico; 1.9million born in China; 1.7 rnillion born in the Philippines; 1.5 millionborn in India; 1.1 mi İlion each barn in El Salvador and Vietnam; anda mitlion born in Korea. The next leading countries of birth areCuba, Canada and the Dominican Republic.Foreign-born US residents have a higher median age (40)than US-bom residents (36). About 28 percent of the foreignbornentered the US between 2000 and 2007, 20 percent inthe 19905, and 43 percent before 1990. Some 52 percent of thefareign-born reported speaking English less than "very welt;" bycomparison, two percent af the US-born speak English Iess than"very we İl."The harder it is ta enter the US from a particular country,the higher the level of educatian of the fareign-bom from thatcountry in the US. US residents born in African countries s ııch asNigeria, Kenya and Egypt are most likeiy to be high-school graduates,while thase barn in Mexico and Central America are leastIike İ y ta be high-schaal graduates. About 88 percent of US-bornadults graduated fram high school, compared with 68 percent offoreign-born US residents.Families with US-born heads had a median annual income of$62,904 in 2007, mare than the $50,633 af families with foreignbornheads. About 14 percent of alI foreign-born families had incomesbelow federal poverty thresholds, campared to nine percentfor native-born families.The number of unauthorized foreigners appears ta be fa İ l-ing with recession and more enfarcement. The US is an track toapprehend abaut 550,000 foreigners in 2009, the İ owest levelsince 1975, when about 600,000 foreigners were apprehended.Apprehensions peaked at 1.8 million in 2000. The US naw spends$2 billian a year on border enforcement.187