There are slightly over 90,000 Kenyans living in the United States. Of the total 30,000 Kenyans are illegal immigrants as they do not possess the required documents as immigrants. This is the group targeted by President  Donald Trump.

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On a broader perspective, immigration has been a thorny issue in the United States with each Government not being able to execute proposals as envisaged due to diverse reasons.

Immigration to the United States is the international movement of individuals who are not natives or do not possess citizenship in order to settle, reside, study or to take-up employment in the United States.

The fact that it has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States is an issue the new President wants to curb.

The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior.

For the last fifteen years, more than 2 million immigrants have been given legal citizen status by the government of United States.

While many use legal means to attain citizenship, many violate the American visa system and end up getting legal documents to stay.

Others enter the US illegally across the Mexico–United States border and elsewhere where immigration is difficult, expensive and dangerous.

Virtually all undocumented immigrants have no avenues for legal entry to the United States due to the restrictive legal limits on green cards, and lack of immigrant visas for low-skilled workers.

Some of the ways suggested to curb illegal migrants are increasing enforcement of existing laws governing illegal immigration to the United States, building a barrier along some or all of the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) Mexico-U.S. border, or creating a new guest worker program.

The US Congress has for a long time been debating this issue but few of these proposals had become law, though a partial border fence had been approved and subsequently cancelled.

This paved way for President Trump who wants to actualize many of the proposals earlier put forward.

Africa is the third largest continent from where those given permanent legal status comes after Asia and Americas.

Mexicans, Indians and Chinese contribute to the largest number of people given US permanent legal status.