I am in my 70s. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born in this country; today it is one in 8, the highest it has been in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. We have gone from 9.7 million foreign born in 1970 to 45 million today.
Here is a breakdown of the educational levels of immigrants, legal and illegal, compared to the native born. Our immigration policies are importing poverty thru mostly unskilled and uneducated immigrants.
About one quarter of our immigrants come from Mexico. 34.5 percent of Mexican immigrants in 2010 indicated in the survey that they arrived in 2000 or later. For immigrants from countries such as India, Guatemala, Honduras, and Brazil, roughly half arrived during the last decade. In contrast, for countries like Canada and Vietnam, few are recent arrivals.
The demographics of this country are rapidly changing fueled by immigration and minority birthrates. We bring in 1.2 million permanent legal immigrants a year, 87% of whom are minorities as classified by the USG. We will be a majority-minority country for the first time in our history by 2043. Half of the children 18 and under will be minorities by 2019. The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.
There are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home. Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.
