Welcome back to It's a Numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you again for being here this week.

Very special episode.

So right before the end of the year, the New York Times released a very important story about immigration,

immigration being the number of net migrants that came in during

Joe Biden's presidency.

Net migration, of course, is the number of new immigrants who come to a country,

subtracted by those who have left.

So that's where the net comes in.

And the number of the net migrants that came in during Joe Biden's presidency

from 2021 to 2023 averaged 2.4 million per year. 2.4 million. Overall, during Biden's first three

years of presidency, it was about $8 million total.

That's the estimate number.

8 million is larger than the population of 37 U.S. states.

It's essentially like adding the state of Washington to the overall population.

Again, a new state of Washington, all those people from diverse backgrounds into the country over a four-year period.

It was, according to the New York Times, quote, the fastest pace of arrivals than during any other

period, including the peak years of the Ellis Island. It's the fastest rapid change of the country

since 1850. When illegal immigration remains a large part of the story, legal immigration and executive

actions like special programs to bring 30,000 migrants a month from places like Venezuela,

Haiti, Colombia, and Cuba, Nicaragua are also added into it.

It's a mixture of legal immigration, executive action,

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