How many legal immigrants do you want to admit per year? We already bring in 1.2 million. 4.5 million are in line overseas and many more will continue to add to the line? Clearing out the 4.5 million will just mean that more will fill the vacancies behind them.
We are already bringing in too many legal immigrants now. The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million. Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade. Growth in the immigrant population has primarily been driven by high levels of legal immigration. Roughly three-fourths of immigrants in the country are here legally. With nearly 12 million immigrants, Mexico was by far the top immigrant-sending country, accounting for 29 percent of all immigrants and 29 percent of growth in the immigrant population from 2000 to 2010. The median age of immigrants in 2010 was 41.4 compared to 35.9 for natives.
Well, I am not an expert on all these numbers, in fact that is an understatement. However, I would not mind 4 million people coming in who had experienced the evils of living under Communism and could teach and tell Americans how good we have it relative to other places. And, we could admit and then close immigration until assimilation. All maybe just crazy talk, but I firmly believe that people waiting legally need to be dealt with first and given SOME sort of credit for following our rules. I am saying that a focus on those people would dilute this pity party for the “illegals.” Like most people, I really resent people who seem to think they are so special that they can move themselves to the front of the line.Or, we could just throw our hands in the air because nobody seems to be coming any closer to agreeing on anything workable and this means basically open borders continue.