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Currently, about 64 percent of the roughly one million new, legal permanent residents each year come in under the family banner; about 15 percent come for economic reasons, ranging from high-tech skilled workers to seasonal farm workers, and most of the rest for political reasons.
Advances in software and production technology, abundant and relatively inexpensive energy, fast access to huge amounts of data, and growing global demand will continue to drive competitiveness of American manufacturing, and drive down labor costs, except for people with jobs in research and high-tech skilled work.
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