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In article <C1BpGz.L20@news.iastate.edu> mjkugel@iastate.edu (Michael J Kugel) writes:
>In article <1993Jan23.000840.20867@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan22.220321.8579@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey) writes:
>>>
>>>One reason, IMHO, why Americans have the "USA #1" attitude is
>>>the relative amount of immigration to American vs. other
>>>countries.  Most Americans are decendents of people who came
>>>here in the last 100 or 150 years.  Most Americans know,
>>>work with, and have friends that were born in other countries
>>>and immigrated to America.   
>>>
>>>The logic is thus, "since hundreds of thousands of people
>>>immigrate to America every year, and millions have immigrated
>>>here over the past century, this must be the best country
>>>in the world."
>>>
>>Canada has twice the immigration rate per capita than the United
>>States has.
>>
>
>Does this include illegal immigration?
>

No...but I have considerable margin for error...Canada has legal
immigration quotas of 250,000 per year, which I think includes
refugees...the 1991 World Almanac which I have suggests the
yearly immigration quota for the US is around 300,000 plus about
100,000 refugees...so at best legal immigration plus refugees
in the US per year is less than half-a-million per year.  

Now there is about a factor of ten difference in population, as
long as illegal immigration to the US is less than two million
per year, Canada has a higher per capita immigration rate...if
the US has an illegal immigrant for every legal one, say around
half-a-million illegals per year...even then Canada's immigration
rate still be over twice the rate per capita of the U.S.

Gerald