Posted on 11/29/2007 12:35:02 AM PST by yorkie
Immigration over the past seven years was the highest for any seven-year period in American history, bringing 10.3 million new immigrants, more than half of them without legal status, according to an analysis of census data released today by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington.
One in eight people living in the United States is an immigrant, the survey found, for a total of 37.9 million people — the highest level since the 1920s.
The survey was conducted by Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the center, which advocates reduced immigration.
Mr. Camarota has been active in the national immigration debate. Independent demographers disputed some of the survey’s conclusions, but not Mr. Camarota’s methods of data analysis.
A large proportion of recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, are low-skilled workers and about one-third of those have not completed high school, giving them significantly less education than Americans born in the United States, according to the study, which is based on census data as recent as March of this year.
The survey focuses on public costs associated with the new generation of immigrant
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sadly, Clinton enforced our immigration laws more than Bush II did. Sad state of affairs...
“Sadly, Clinton enforced our immigration laws more than Bush II did. Sad state of affairs...”
*plugs ears with fingers* LALALALALALALALALA!!!
GW’s fault.
And Clinton did this by ....?
Immigration is an avalanche gathering momentum as it continues. The congressional Democrats are more-or-less openly pro-illegal. The congressional Republicans are split. It is only the American public that wants a change.
WOT?
I don’t think so.
Clinton did it by enforcing the law, specifically employers hiring illegals. Just look up the stats of employers pursued by the justice department during Clinton’s term and then Bush II’s.
It is simply a fact.
There is a link on Drudge and a thread regarding the report that 30% of Florida is now illegal. The 2006 Census has the Florida population at 18 million. So at LEAST 6 million illegals are in Florida alone. And they keep trying to tell us that there are only 13 million illegals in the country? Heck, there must be a million here in Atlanta alone.
And I misread the headline. Thanks for nothing coffee.
It said 30% of immigrants. I still don’t believe the 13 million bit though. I have to admit that the drought, housing market and new laws have combined to send them elsewhere than Georgia this year.
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
This has been happening for over 20 years ever since Reagan signed the "one-time" 1986 amnesty. No President has enforced the law since then. Now the politicians who are responsible for this mess [McCain, Kennedy, et. al.] want to make the problem go away by legalizing the illegals. That's called chutzpah.
Say it isn’t so, and say it isn’t so that the electorate complain but still vote for what they complain about.
He never intended to stop it.
I don't ge to post this much anymore - most everyone has seen it. But. Apparently you haven't seen Bush's plan for a "new America".
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
The same people telling us that there are 12 million illegals in the country are the same people who are telling us that there is no NAU in the works. The NAU is the ONLY rational explanation for why George W. Nixon refuses enforce our borders while he wages the WOT.
At least, Ron Paul is honest about not believing in the WOT.
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And companies want illegal workers guess who will win,DC is owned by companies that is why NOTHING will change better learn to like it.
Ping
Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.html
Immigrants in the United States, 2007 A Profile of America’s Foreign-Born Population
This Backgrounder provides a detailed picture of the number and socio-economic status of the nation’s immigrant or foreign-born population, both legal and illegal. The data was collected by the Census Bureau in March 2007.
Among the report’s findings:
The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a record of 37.9 million in 2007.
Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13.
Overall, nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien. Half of Mexican and Central American immigrants and one-third of South American immigrants are illegal.
Since 2000, 10.3 million immigrants have arrived — the highest seven-year period of immigration in U.S. history. More than half of post-2000 arrivals (5.6 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.
The largest increases in immigrants were in California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Of adult immigrants, 31 percent have not completed high school, compared to 8 percent of natives. Since 2000, immigration increased the number of workers without a high school diploma by 14 percent, and all other workers by 3 percent.
The share of immigrants and natives who are college graduates is about the same. Immigrants were once much more likely than natives to be college graduates.
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.
The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989.
Immigrants make significant progress over time. But even those who have been here for 20 years are more likely to be in poverty, lack insurance, or use welfare than are natives.
The primary reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use is their low education levels, not their legal status or an unwillingness to work.
Of immigrant households, 82 percent have at least one worker compared to 73 percent of native households.
There is a worker present in 78 percent of immigrant households using at least one welfare program.
Immigration accounts for virtually all of the national increase in public school enrollment over the last two decades. In 2007, there were 10.8 million school-age children from immigrant families in the United States.
Immigrants and natives have similar rates of entrepreneurship — 13 percent of natives and 11 percent of immigrants are self-employed.
Recent immigration has had no significant impact on the nation’s age structure. Without the 10.3 million post-2000 immigrants, the average age in America would be virtually unchanged at 36.5 years.
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