Posted on 04/30/2021 10:00:05 AM PDT by NobleFree
CLAIM: President Joe Biden said in his 2021 speech to Congress, “Immigration has always been essential to America.”
VERDICT: FALSE. The United States won World War II, created a middle-class economy, invented many new technologies, revived racial equality, and landed astronauts on the moon during the long period of low migration between 1925 and 1970.
[...] In 1955, pro-migration groups began claiming the United States was a “Nation of Immigrants,” but immigrants were only 7 percent of the population in 1955, down from 15 percent in 1910.
New arrivals slowly rose amid the Cold War as Congress welcomed people fleeing communism. In 1957, for example, Hungarian migrants fleeting the Soviet takeover helped bump new arrivals to 327,000.
But U.S. inventions and productivity continued to boom during this low-migration period.
[...] Americans — aided by a few immigrants — also saw a massive rise in income.
Family income doubled between 1950 and 1970, according to the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But in the subsequent high-immigration era, family income rose far more slowly, by only one-quarter from 1980 to 2020.
[...] the real jump came after President George H.W. Bush worked with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to double the annual inflow of migrants from 1990. Their 1990 law now delivers roughly 1 million legal immigrants each year, or roughly one immigrant for every four American births.
The number of resident immigrants in the United States rose from just 10 million in 1970, then to 20 million in 1990, and up to 45 million in 2019. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
LEGAL immigration you moron!!
I heard Joe and he said Emigration, not Immigration.
Ayup.
Americans are slow and don’t seem to get the fact that the leftist/Communist plan is to divide the united. It’s the plan.
They’re bringing in your kids replacements and have been flooding the country with millions of illegals and foreign nationals by the millions. Open borders and chain immigration is one of the biggest factors in their drive to destroy the U.S.
Once upon a time we had vast, unpeopled frontiers that needed settlers.
Once upon a time, our factories and industries needed vast amounts of semi- and unskilled labor.
Once upon a time, Northern armies needed cannon fodder.
Once upon a time we need vast numbers of imigrants.
None of these apply now. Illegal immigrants are threat to national security and we no long have any great need for legal immigrants.
Immigration exists to serve the Republic and its Citizens, not the immigrant.
The only immigrants that should be allowed in the US are ones who bring some sort of capital with them: money, patents, talent, or advanced training and education. No immigrant should be allowed in the US if cannot support himself or will displace an American from his job.
bttt
LEGAL immigration you moron!!
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It’s legal immigrants on work visas from India and Communist China that are absolutely destroying the American middle class.
They are as much more threat than illegals from Mexico and Central America.
This man is pure evil. Stupid evil at that. Why don’t any of these jerks say “Somalia needs more immigration.”
Immigration with culturally incompatible people and no assimilation is national suicide
LEGAL immigration that “is”:-)
Correct; from the article:
"Family income doubled between 1950 and 1970, according to the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But in the subsequent high-immigration era, family income rose far more slowly, by only one-quarter from 1980 to 2020.
"[...] the real jump came after President George H.W. Bush worked with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to double the annual inflow of migrants from 1990. Their 1990 law now delivers roughly 1 million legal immigrants each year, or roughly one immigrant for every four American births."
Not that either - see post #12.
True that as well.
When I hear “...but we are all immigrants, except of course the Native Americans.” I tell them this. “I am a native American. I was born here. I am NOT an immigrant.”
The leftist thinking about this is inherently racist. It says that your race is forever foreign, regardless of where you were born, and of which nation you are a citizen of. It denies the reality of the smallest minority, the individual.
We are not “races”, we are individual people.
Leftist that even bother to use this “we are all...” argument cannot separate themselves from their fascistic brethren, the BLM/ANTIFA terrorists, as law and democracy mean nothing to them.
VERDICT: FALSE. The United States won World War II, created a middle-class economy, invented many new technologies, revived racial equality, and landed astronauts on the moon during the long period of low migration between 1925 and 1970.
Sorry, but your verdict of "false" is FALSE. The effort of landing on the Moon was spearheaded by a NAZI IMMIGRANT.
LEGAL immigration
Make that legal immigration and they had to be sponsored or had jobs waiting. Ellis Island turned sick and undesirables away unlike the demonrats’ open border.
Red herring - there are no more than a handful of von Brauns among the 1M+ annual legal immigrants, and none coming across our open southern border.
Not that either - see post #12.
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