Center for Immigration Studies map of immigrant population in 2015.
Posted on 03/28/2016 7:30:11 AM PDT by Petrosius
One third of the nation's 50 states now have immigrant populations over 15 percent, with six over 25 percent, raising new questions about the country's ability to absorb the immigrant flood in schools and the job market, a new report on government immigration data said.
The new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the 61 million immigrants and their children now in America revealed the speed at how the nation's population has changed since 1970.
According to interactive maps unveiled Monday by CIS, there were no states in 1970 that recorded immigrant populations over 15 percent. Today one third of the nation's states register over 15 percent immigrant: California, Nevada, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Washington, Arizona, Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Oregon.
And the population of immigrants and their children in six are over 25 percent immigrant: California, Nevada, Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
California, for example, went from 13 percent immigrant in 1970 to over 37 percent last year. Texas went from 5 percent to 25 percent over that same period.
The report by CIS immigration experts Steven A. Camarota and Bryan Griffith raised new concerns, heard in some corners in Congress, about the speed of legal and illegal immigration and whether states can assimilate the new people into their programs, everything from schools to jobs.
Referring to their December analysis that 61 million legal and illegal immigrants and their children in the country, the experts wrote, "The numbers represent a complete break with the recent history of the United States. As recently as 1970, there were only 13.5 million immigrants and their young children in the country, accounting for one in 15 U.S. residents."
It is likely to further push immigration critics in Congress to advocate for restrictions on the issuing of green cards and work visas until more studies can be done to make sure that native-born Americans aren't losing out to immigrants, especially for jobs.
Taxes in Texas have sky rocketed but because of the idiotic Califruitians who move here and raise property values.
As for illegals, Texas has always had a problem. Back in the 80s, my hometown hospital had to close due to so many illegals who couldn’t pay their bills. Now, people have to drive an hour to the nearest hospital.
Around 2008, there was a huge influx of Mexican illegals and a few middle easterners in the small podunkville where we’re living now. So much so that fast food places put up drive thru signs in Spanish (that not so brilliant idea didn’t last long). In fact, they took over the Whataburger and make it very unpleasant for white folk making the wrong decision for lunch. Of course, the school took a nose dive.
Michigan and Mini-soda = bigger than Texas in that map!
A friend who lives northwest of Philly is watching them take over the company for which he works; primarily in finance and IT. Whole subdivisions are filled with them.
They’ve opened a couple of restaurants in my area; I pity the people living near them. While many people have told me they like Indian food, the stench from the kitchen is unbearable and wafts over the neighborhood...
That’s what the elites want. A North American passport. Eliminate global borders. Brown out the American population.
You think it’s bad now?
It will accelerate. Once Dems have total control they will increase the immigration rates even faster.
Global Warming™ has caused the Great Lakes to dry up. The Canadians don’t seem to have the same problem. : )
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No Bush did not start this. Jimmy Carter actually started this mess. Reagan tried to fix it but the dims stabbed him in the back. Bush 41 and Clinton left it alone, Bush 43 sped up the process. Obama has taken off the brakes and put pedal to the metal.
Tell me again, Obama, that “That is who we are.”
It’s getting hard to tell.
I’m sure it’s on purpose, too.
Thanks to Global Warming, Lake Michigan dried out suddenly! LOL
That's what we need...more studies! More than jobs, it's about what it's doing to our entitlement programs, paid for by a rapidly declining working class, and the constantly accelerated pace towards socialism.
In my early life, one of the hats I wore was dealing with INS with regard to foreign workers in a couple of our plants. Keeping everyone legal was the job. At that time the word “immigrant” meant a foreign national who had entered the US legally as a Permanent Resident. There were established limits by world continents and it would take over 18 months to obtain a Green Card. Green Cards then were only issued to those who stayed in their own country during the process, they could not live in the US and apply for one. Those here on visas or illegally were not referred to as “immigrants.”
When did the change occur?
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Interactive map here
These maps are very revealing. Thanks for posting.
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