
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, examining government data, has found that immigration since 1970 has had a tremendous effect on the U.S. population. CIS found that 61 million people living in the United States -- or nearly 20% of the current U.S. population -- are either immigrants or their U.S. born children. The number of immigrants and their children has increased six-times faster than the rest of the U.S. population since 1970.
Of the 61 million, roughly 75% (45.3 million) are legal immigrants and their children.
While the national debate has focused on illegal immigration, the enormous impact of immigration is largely the result of those brought in legally. These numbers raise profound questions that are seldom asked: What number of immigrants can be assimilated? What is the absorption capacity of our nation's schools, health care system, infrastructure, and, perhaps most importantly, its labor market? What is the impact on the environment and quality of life from significantly increasing the nation's population size and density? With some 45 million legal immigrants and their young children already here, should we continue to admit a million new legal permanent immigrants every year?
Among the findings:
- In December 2015 there were 61 million immigrants (legal and illegal) and U.S.-born children under age 18 with at least one immigrant parent living in the United States.
- Immigrants allowed into the country legally and their children account for three-fourths (45.3 million) of all immigrants and their children.
- Almost one in five U.S. residents is now an immigrant or minor child of an immigrant parent.
- The numbers represent a complete break with the recent history of the United States. As recently as 1970, there were only 13.5 million immigrants and their young children in the country, accounting for one in 15 U.S. residents.
- Just since 2000, the number of immigrants and their children has increased by 18.4 million.
- The number of immigrants and their young children grew six times faster than the nation's total population from 1970 to 2015 — 353 percent vs. 59 percent.
- In many states the increase in the number of immigrants and their minor children from 1970 to 2015 has been nothing short of astonishing:
- In Georgia, this population grew 3,058 percent (from 55,000 to 1.75 million), 25 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Nevada, this population grew 3,002 percent (from 26,000 to 821,000), six times faster than the overall state population.
- In North Carolina, this population grew 2,937 percent (from 47,000 to 1.43 million), 30 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Arkansas, this population grew 1,831 percent (from 12,000 to 228,000), 34 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Tennessee, this population grew 1,823 percent (from 28,000 to 537,000), 27 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Virginia, this population grew 1,150 percent (from 114,000 to 1.42 million), 15 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Oklahoma, this population grew 1,139 percent (from 37,000 to 458,000), 22 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Texas, this population grew 1,084 percent (from 582,000 to 6.89 million), 7 times faster than the overall state population.
- In Arizona, this population grew 1,019 percent (from 131,000 to 1.46 million), four times faster than the overall state population.
For the full study, see the Center for Immigration Studies.
Updated: Mon, Mar 21st 2016 @ 10:30am EDT
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They are basically having kids on our dime. Then they qualify for all kinds of benes. Time to stop it all and send them home. We have too many Americans in need to deal with them sucking our resources. They only come for benefits.
This is one of the most digusting aspects of it. On top of that, to add insult to injury, the media scolds Americans for not having more children, even though Americans only have as many children as they can afford and end up paying for the children that immigrants can't afford. The immigration enthusiasts and apologists for illegal immigration of invoke "the children" for reasons to give amnesty and increase legal immigration, with the obvious intent to tug at heartstrings. Frankly, it has the opposite effect on me--it hardens me.
Hidden in plain sight????
MO/KS - Suspect in two-state killing spree arrested in Missouri /Out of the shadows?
Highway Patrol officials told the Kansas City Star that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was arrested in Montgomery County, Missouri. He was found lying on a hill just north of Interstate-70 and no shots were fired, according to The Star.
"He looked exhausted," Sgt. James Hedrick said.
The Star reported the area where Serrano-Vitorino was apprehended is near a McDonald's restaurant and several motels.
Serrano-Vitorino is accused of murdering four men late Monday night at his neighbor’s home in Kansas City, Kan. He was also wanted in connection with the shooting death of 49-year-old Randy Nordman in Montgomery County. Police have not released the names of the four victims, but relatives identified three of them to the Kansas City Star as Mike Capps and brothers Clint and Austin Harter.
America is Run By Stupid Open Border Leadership With NO Business Sense
Allowing 10% of America's babies to have foreign born parents. Where's the jobs for 'em all? Outsourced to Mexico, Japan and China? Americans are the give ups?
That's what Trump has been saying last six months
M 6500 Exactly right. I guess everyone saw the article about the Secret Meeting of the GOP on Sea Island, GA. All the billionaires collected in one spot to try to figure out how to stop Trump. That tells you everything. I read interviews with GOP leaders 2 days ago. They say they're sure they can work with Cruz, but Trump would be impossible, i. e., he won't support their Open Borders, One World agenda.
New MSM Poll Shows Trump Now Tied With Kasich in Ohio
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Rubio on Amnesty PUSH:
http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2016/03/14/john-kasich-goes-all-in-...
Don't trust establishment liars like Cruz.....Sessions is spot on.
Our country is being transformed from a nation of workers to a nation of increasing welfare recipients. Non-English speaking peoples from 3rd world failed countries resist assimilation. They weren't raised with the American work ethic and pass this "culture" on to their children.
Unless the next president restricts immigration, it will not end well.
With this report of the huge effect of immigration (legal & illegal) on the country.
Revise the bubble gum video!!! and make affective ad before election.
Will America be the same with different people in it? If the answer is yes, we should ask for evidence that making it different makes it better. If the answer is no, then we should ask why we are doing this.
There is no evidence to support assimilation at this scale. Just go to LA or NYC or Chicago today. We will splinter into 20+ polyglot groups with their own cities, schools, languages, governments, companies, stores - at best living together in uneasy peace.
United States of Yugoslavia.
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We have The Cure; NumbersUSA's "Sensible Solutions".
What are we waiting for ? Let's do it now !
I don't know why we are waiting for an election and Donald Trump to build a wall. Why can't we build it now??? Or, at least, take steps to secure the border and turn back those trying to enter.
In CO; we have the same issue. Every other person is an immigrant; alot of languages in our schools too; hard to find a job; etc. Most of the people live in the front range too so its very concentrated.
NO amnesty. NO work permits. NO nothing but deportation.
Pledge to vote for the candidate who will deport all illegals and severely reduce legal immigration and work visas.
I've previously posted the link to a Census Bureau report that in 10 years or so, there will be more immigrants coming in than are born here. That 20% will be 50% in 25 years. How does ANY country survive that?
The disappointing thing, I've told 2-3 people a week about this website, please join, please at least visit. Its like someone gave these people an apathetic pill. My God its YOUR country, its your children's heritage, and you'll letting them give it away?What is wrong with you. But no one cares. I won't go into any political views, I'll just say what I've always said make as much money as you can, as soon as you can.
Ken, they will wake up when it hits them personally.
Thanks for trying to reach out to others. Sometimes it helps to mention there's no membership fee.
No country or society in history has survived immigration/invasion at this scale. The irony is that the immigrants have a safety valve - when things go bad, they have a safe home to return. Americans have nowhere to go.
I already voted early for Marter in IL. (and for Trump). Kirk is Dick Durbin's creature. I think he never really recovered from his stroke and staffers are doing his job. He announced he wouldn't run for re-election but now he is. Typical.
God Bless Donald Trump !
Only he can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN !
We are encouraged by his victories last night, and the strong 2nd place finishes by Ted Cruz, with many more to follow !
Here is how Trump will deal with this right from his website:
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
Recent immigrants have lots of relatives and connection from where they came. Often their loyalty is more with their home country than their new country.
It is of note that Hillary is relying on "immigrants" to win. She can't get elected with only our own citizens. That should be eye-opening but America's eyes are blind in this end time.
It is not lost on me that everything and everyone is focused against Trump and none of these groups are going against the other candidates. Satan has but a short time and is setting his wrath against those of us who will bring back lawfulness to America. But everyone, establishment Repubs on down cannot stop God's will.