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Posted on 09/12/2007 4:18:19 AM PDT by VU4G10
WASHINGTON - Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English, according to new Census data that illustrate the wide-ranging effects of immigration.
The number of immigrants nationwide reached an all-time high of 37.5 million in 2006, affecting incomes and education levels in many cities across the country. But the effects have not been uniform.
In most states, immigrants have added to the number of those lacking a high-school diploma, with almost half of those from Latin America falling into that category.
However, at the other end of the education spectrum, Asian immigrants are raising average education levels in many states, with nearly half of them holding at least a bachelor's degree.
"There is no one-size-fits-all policy that you could apply for all immigrant groups," said Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau. "I think most of the attention has been on low-skilled workers coming from Mexico. But we have 10 million immigrants from Asia, a number that's growing."
The Census Bureau on Wednesday released a host of demographic data about the nation, including statistics on immigration, housing, education and employment.
The data come from the American Community Survey, an annual survey of 3 million households that has replaced the Census Bureau's long-form questionnaire from the once-a-decade census. It does not distinguish between illegal immigrants and those who are in the U.S. legally.
Mather analyzed the differences in education levels among immigrants from Asia and those from Latin America. Together, the groups account for about 80 percent of all immigrants.
About 48 percent of Asian immigrants held at least a bachelor's degree, compared with about 11 percent of immigrants from Latin America. Among people born in the U.S., about 27 percent were college graduates.
"Driving this are people coming from China and India," Mather said. "They are either coming with a bachelor's degree, or they are coming with visas and getting degrees once they arrive."
At the other end of the spectrum, 47 percent of adult immigrants from Latin America lacked a high school diploma, compared with 16 percent of Asian immigrants and 13 percent of people born in the U.S.
Those numbers are fueling overall increases in the number of high-school dropouts in four states: Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Texas, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
"It used to be the poor southern states that had low levels of education and income. Now it is the high-immigration states as well," Frey said. "But that isn't to say that the second or third generation won't do better, because they will," he added. "There is upward mobility."
Among the other highlights from the 2006 data released by the Census Bureau:
_Massachusetts led all states in college graduates, with 37 percent of adults 25 and older holding at least a bachelor's degree. West Virginia came in last with 16.5 percent.
_Mississippi led all states in high-school dropouts, with 22.1 percent of adults 25 and older not graduating from high school. Minnesota was at the other end, with only 9.3 percent.
_California led the nation in immigrants, at 27 percent of the state's population, and in people who spoke a foreign language at home, at 43 percent.
_West Virginia had the smallest share of immigrants, at 1.2 percent. It also had the smallest share of people speaking a foreign language at home, at 2.3 percent.
_New York residents had the longest average commuting time to work at nearly 31 minutes, while North Dakota had the shortest, at 15.5 minutes.
_More Americans are working later in life. In 2006, 23.2 percent of people age 65 to 74 were still in the labor force _either working or looking for work — up from 19.6 percent in 2000.
_Fewer households consist of a married couple with children — 21.6 percent in 2006, down from 23.5 percent in 2000.
Yeah, and I bet that language is Spanish.
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I guess this is an arguement against the value of higher education.
I don’t have a problem with legal immigrants - they want to learn the language and try to assimilate (plus w/degrees, they are not going to be a drain on our infrastructure). It is the illegals that have no desire to respect our laws and expect us to bend over backwards for them that I take issue with.
Legal (real) immigrants? Or is that including illegal aliens posing as immigrants?
I see absolutely nothing changing about any of this and of course it is no problem until the economy tanks. When that happens, then there will be a major problem.
When you hear candidates spinning that their vote was on “immigration” and not “illegal immigration” that is your assurance they haven’t a clue about immigration.
We take in 1 million immigrants a year and that’s legal numbers. We can not sustain these numbers. California has to build a school everyday in sempiternity as long as the current immigration trends continue.
Voting yes on more Visa’s without any oversight as far as returning to country of origin is a contribution to illegal immigration, make no mistake. It is obvious what the American people want, so if they would elect someone who isn’t just giving lip service for once, we might be able to get a start on solving this.
We, as American’s, and especially as conservative American’s better wake up to the facts real quick or we aren’t going to like what we wake up to, when in fact, we do wake up.
Don’t we have 37million poor people in America too?
Wonder what the overlap is. Especially with immigrants voluntarily sending much of their paycheck back HOME to family in their native country.
I don’t have a problem with legal immigrants either but there are far too many of them. This isn’t their fault, it is our governments and the idiots who changed immigration in 1965.
This is a great video if you haven’t seen it yet, please do. This is part one, there is also a part 2 on the same page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyTmClBU7nA
They are doing this in Europe as well, soon to be Eurabia.
The intent is to balkanize the country so as to undermine the nation that stands in the way of world Socialism...or rather Communism.
This has been their stated goal and method for over a century. It was their Fellow Travelers in the 1920's who were originally defeated by the 1924 act that restricted immigration and prevented a further flood of anarchists and radicals fleeing from Europe to cause trouble in America.
But they kept pounding away at it. And this flood is the result.
Make no mistake. The United States is being resettled with people who have nothing to do with it, who will actively destroy its institutions of liberty, property, and self government.
The Left hates America because it stands as a rebuke to them, and opposes them throughout the world wherever they make a stand. Or did.
But that is being changed now by facts on the ground. The Christian West must be destroyed, so that the utopia can finally be brought forth, so they say.
Here’s what I think is the scary, unnoticed item:
There are 37.5 million immigrants, which means people who were not U.S. citizens. Out of a country of about 300 million people, that’s about 12% of the population.
But 1 in 5 people live in a home where english is not the primary language.
That’s 45 million.
In other words, over 7.5 million CITIZENS live in a household that does not speak English. Now, it’s likely that the citizens speak some form of english, although this probably includes anchor-babies who don’t speak english.
But that’s a lot of citizens surrounded by a different language. And without a common language, you can’t have any real community. That’s the lesson of the Tower of Babel from the Bible — if you want to divide people and turn them on one another, have them speak different languages.
So 20% of our population can’t communicate with the other 80%. That’s a big divide.
Those who didn’t grow up with our Constitution and didn’t have such protections from government back home may not be as concerned with “changes” to Constitutional interpretation.
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Danke. And I just pinged you with another.
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Here you go:
"The data come from the American Community Survey... It does not distinguish between illegal immigrants and those who are in the U.S. legally."
1 — Take the number of legal immigrants: about 24-25 million. They are relatively easy to track because they have documents such as green cards.
2 — Take the total number of foreign-born persons in the United States: about 35-36-million. That number includes legal immigrants, but it also accounts for other immigrants, as statistically sampled in periodic U.S. Census Bureau surveys (those are interviews done to update the 10-year Census).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5365863
Given that the more informed estimates which have the number of illegal aliens at 26 32 million PLUS a known 24-25 legal immigrants it is no wonder I just don't hear much English spoken, well, just about anywhere I go. And get this, I live in far north DFW in a neighborhood of $200,000 homes, what might have been referred to in the past as a "white-flight" area. Friends, around here that is no longer true.
I have said this before but I bet there are a lot of people that really do not realise that the DFW are is about up to it's eyeballs in illegal aliens and foreign-born (real immigrants). Before you can have a reasonable expectation that at least half of the folks areound you are going to understand what you are saying (i.e. English) you have to be at least 25 - 30 miles from the center of Dallas. If I tell someone around here that the u.S. has 50 million foreigners currently in-country (assuming that they can understand me) they would not be the least bit suprised.
Fifty million is one in six.
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Actually, the Asians I work with know the Constitution quite a bit better than the people who have grown up with it and have become apathetic to it...
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