I don’t know why this is a shock. It has been the case for almost two decades. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign-born; today, it is one in 8 the highest in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. In 1970 there were 9.7 million foreign born; today there are almost 45 million foreign-born.
Immigrants from third world countries increase their family carbon footprint, energy use, pollution output, and trash generated by a order of magnitude after they get to America. Global warming Democrats don’t care. Huh.
I agree with your numbers but they need a little analysis. Japan, China, and Western Europe are facing a demographic catastrophy and we are not far behind them. We have an aging population and need young immigrants to sustain the system otherwise it will collapse. The problem is our welfare system as Europes attracts many that are not productive and become a drain on the states resources. As such they do not help the demographic problem but make it worse, but there is an answer.
We must encourage the immigration from societies that are willing to assimilate into our nation and adopt our culture as did the English, Irish, Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Italians, Chinese Spanish, Portuguese etc. We are a nation of immigrants with a common American Dream. New immigrants must not be allowed any social benefits except emergency medical care. When they are full citizens and this must be a lengthy process as in the past, they would receive full benefits as all other citizens. There should be no provisions to educate them in their own language. If they are not willing to integrate into our society we do not need them.
I hope many nations send us their Engineers, Doctors, Tradesmen, Educators,(no lawyers please) and those that perform manual labor. All must be willing to grab the American Dream and live it in English. If we do this we will again be the "Shining City on the Hill" that President Reagan spoke about.
ps English and Spanish is spoken in my home but everyone speaks English as either a first or second language. My wife came here legally, her father paid out of State Tuition when she went to the University of Texas El Paso. She did it the legal way. It took 19 years for her brother to become a citizen because he did it the legal way. He scored 100% on his citizenship test. Neither she nor anyone in her family has taken one penny of welfare.
This is the American Dream I speak of. I welcome those that will come and grab it. Those that will not, I do not welcome.