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Section sizes

Section size for Immigration (46 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,194	13,194
History	892	892
Statistics	3,085	5,109
2012 survey	776	776
Current	1,248	1,248
Push and pull factors of immigration	14,140	14,408
Foreign involvement	268	268
Economic migrant	1,049	1,049
Economic effects	65	85,740
Overall national effects	11,729	11,729
Study methodologies	2,408	2,408
Global effects	6,695	6,695
Effects on immigrants	3,699	3,699
For individual groups	9,275	9,275
Fiscal effects	5,510	5,510
Effects of refugees	12,184	12,184
Effects of illegal immigration	6,792	6,792
Effects on the sending countries	13,148	13,148
Innovation and entrepreneurship	14,235	14,235
Immigration law	9,448	9,448
Quality of institutions	3,589	3,589
Welfare	5,841	5,841
Education	6,020	6,020
Social capital	2,541	2,541
Health	3,123	3,123
Housing	1,091	1,091
Crime	2,083	2,083
Effect on country of origin	3,039	3,039
Integration	784	23,075
United States	4,387	4,387
Europe	17,904	17,904
Discrimination	78	20,330
Europe	5,846	6,885
United Kingdom	1,039	1,039
Canada	939	939
United States	23	12,428
Business	1,145	1,145
Criminal justice system	4,573	4,573
Education	2,595	2,595
Housing	2,265	2,265
Labor market	1,827	1,827
Public support	2,277	2,277
See also	395	395
References	3,042	3,042
Further reading	8,349	8,349
External links	469	469
Total	215,104	215,104

Notice of Request for Comment (RfC)

There is a Request for Comment at Talk:Illegal immigration to the United States#RfC20250327.
The topic is "Terminology: "Illegal" immigrant vs "Undocumented" immigrant in article mainspace".

Your contribution is requested. —RCraig09 (talk) 20:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

split Economic effects section

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to split with 1 support Cognsci (talk) 12:09, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

request to split Economic effects section into Economic effects of immigration (which is currently a redirect to this section) to aid in reducing length which is 9516 words Cognsci (talk) 12:17, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support HudecEmil (talk) 14:23, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.