Posted on 11/29/2007 11:27:16 PM PST by Zakeet
A new study suggests that the wave of illegal aliens is having a more serious impact — particularly on welfare spending — than commonly believed. Is anyone in Washington listening?
The study by the Center for Immigration Studies notes that the estimated 10.3 million people who've come here since 2000 represent the greatest-ever migration to the U.S. over a seven-year period. Over the next decade, at current rates, another 15 million will arrive — the largest immigrant wave in our history.
Not bad for a country that supposedly is one of the most unpopular on Earth. That said, the study also notes that more than half the newcomers so far this decade — 5.6 million — have come illegally.
Of America's 39 million immigrants, representing 12.6% of our total population, at least 12 million are illegal. Most, but not all, come from Mexico and Central America.
What exactly do the numbers mean? Well, for one thing, they mean we're importing a lot of poverty — and it's skewing the debate over key public policy issues.
How often, for example, have we been hit over the head with the scary statistic that "48 million Americans don't have health insurance." But the statement is only partly true.
According to CIS, 34% of all immigrant households — or 13.3 million — don't have health insurance. And of those, 8.3 million are here illegally. They make up 18% of the nation's uninsured, if you count their American-born children.
The crisis of the uninsured, in other words, is in significant part an imported one — one that is costing untold billions.
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See #20.
Angela got that one exactly!
Isn’t that amazing? I’m saving that one. Nature holds many lessons for us.
Nope.
But, God willing, in about a year we're going to throw the bastards out.
Huckabee children.
The statistic was immigrant households as a whole --legal and illegal.
And 13.3 million of the entire 39 million (including virtually all of the 12 million illegals) don't have health insurance. This is reasonable to believe.
“AMERICA IS GOING CUCKOO!”
We are already there. The chance to buy a return trip ticket has passed. Enjoy your local cuckoos and their attached parasites.
And therefore a natural fit for the Democrat party "base".
Bttt!
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