immigration system has two principle components. there is a family-based component through which the suspect in yesterday s attack alleged bombing incident came through, and there is an employment based component. in any given year we have about 1 million immigrants. one million people come here, get green cards, immigrant visas. in fiscal year 15 of that one million about 72% of our immigrants came based on a family connection. and only 6% or about one out of 15 came based on employment or job connection, job offer. so you can see the immigration system is heavily weighted towards family migration. there are other categories of people that immigrate as well, including refugee, asighlies and visa lottery people that i just referenced but those are very small compared to the two larger categories. want to talk about these in particular. the family base, employment
principle components. there s a family-based component through which the suspect in yesterday s attack alleged bombing incident came through and there s an employment-based component. in any given year, we have about one million immigrants. one million people come here get green cards, immigrant visas. in fiscal year 15, for example, of that one million, about 72% of our immigrants came based on a family connection. only 6%, one out of 15 came based on unemployment or job connection. the immigration system is hely weighted towards family migration. there are other categories of people that immigrate as well, besides family employment based, refugees, the lottery program, but those are smaller. i want to talk now about these in particular. the family-based employment-based and the visa