Mass Migration of Muslims to U.S. Mostly a Mirage

Donald Trump called for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the U.S. but, according to a new poll, the flood of Islamic immigrants is a mirage, NBC News reported. 

Not one predominantly Muslim nation makes the list of top 10 countries of origin for legal immigrants in 2013, according to the most recent census figures from the Migration Policy Institute.

At #14, Pakistan was the top-ranked Islamic country with 13,251 legal permanent residents — just 1 percent of the total 990,553 immigrants who received Green Cards that year, the figures showed.

There has been for several years a "perception that immigration has been out of control is disproportionate to the facts on the ground," Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the organization's U.S. immigration policy project, told NBC News. "The numbers of people immigrating to the U.S. have been pretty stable the last few years, and illegal immigration is much lower than it was a decade ago."

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