Study:
Immigrant Population in U.S. Booms to 44M, Majority from Mexico
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is
now a record level of immigrants living in the United States – standing at
roughly 44 million people nationwide – who entered the U.S. both
illegally and legally from a foreign country.
Research conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies’
Steven Camarota reveals the massive scope of the U.S. immigrant population,
which has contributed to keeping American wages stagnant while driving up costs
of social services.
Camarota’s
research reveals that in 2016, there were between 43 and 45 million immigrants
in the U.S., nearly quadruple the immigrant population in 2000.
Mexico,
as noted by Camarota, has the largest group of legal and illegal foreign
nationals in the U.S., with 1.1 million immigrants from the country arriving in
the U.S. between 2010 and 2016. Mexican nationals make up roughly one in eight
new arrivals to the U.S.
Legal and illegal immigrants
now make up close to 14 percent of the entire U.S. population, or roughly one
out of every eight American residents. Camarota says this is the largest
percentage in 106 years.
The
largest increases from 2015 to 2016 to immigration to the U.S. have come from
the Middle East, the Carribean, Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The
booming foreign-born population is largely due to family-based chain migration,
which was established by the 1965 immigration legislation allowing new arrivals
to the U.S. to bring their foreign family members, spouses, children, and
extended family to the U.S.
For instance, as Breitbart News has reported, on average, for every
new legal immigrant from Mexico, the immigrant brings six relatives to the U.S.
years later when they obtain U.S. citizenship.
President Trump and
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, most recently, have called for an end to chain migration,
slamming it for its negative impact on American workers and the country’s
working-class, who are often forced to compete with new arrivals for
blue-collar jobs.
“A
merit-based system, by definition, would be safer than a lottery or even
extended family-based immigration,” Sessions said during a speech in New York
City, New York. “We want the best and the brightest in America. The
President’s plan is essential to protecting our national security, while also
banning drunk drivers, fraudsters, gang members, and child abusers.”
Harvard University
economist George Borjas, an immigration expert, recently said the current family-based chain migration
system is “really hard to justify as a rational immigration policy.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Tancredo:
Another Dirty Little Secret About Massive Immigration About to Be Exposed –
Hopefully
AFP PHOTO /
Jewel SAMAD
Are you ever
tied up in a traffic jam and start to wonder, “Where are all these
people coming from?” Have you tried to go camping only to find out the
campgrounds have long since been “filled up?” Have more and more acres in
your area that once produced food, now only produce urban heat pads? Has your
state had to divert more and more water from agricultural usage to human
consumption? And in general, has the population footprint
on the environment in your area been enlarged by population growth?
Does water run downhill?
Then the answer to the question
asked in the first sentence is immigration — both legal and illegal. In
fact, according to both the Federation
for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Pew Hispanic Center, new immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 75 to 80
percent of our annual population growth.
You don’t have to be a tree
hugger to recognize that massive population increases have negatively affected
the environment. Everything from water scarcity to urban sprawl can be
attributed to population increases and, as I said, population increases in the
U.S. can almost completely be attributed to immigration. So, beyond the
negative impact of massive immigration on housing costs, schools, hospitals,
energy, incarceration rates, and the breakdown of assimilation that the left
and the media refuse to acknowledge — add environmental impact.
Congress passed a law in 1969
known as NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) and it has been used
extensively and with a heavy hand to regulate development in almost every area
of our economy. A central feature of the law is the provision requiring
that any proposed governmental action that affects the environment be examined
through public comment and hearings to assure its benefits outweigh any adverse
impact on the environment. Federal agencies must conduct “Environmental Impact
Assessments” before implementing any new action or program.
Even the Pentagon and every branch
of the military has to comply with NEPA in its programs and operations. And
yet, since 1970, not one federal agency — not the predecessor to the U.S.
Customs and Immigration Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS), nor the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Centers
for Disease Control, the Federal Highway Administration, nor the Public Health
Service — not a single federal agency has ever complied with the mandates of
the NEPA with respect to its immigration-related programs and activities.
There is no secret as to the
lack of interest in applying NEPA requirements to immigration. You see, the law
requires that BEFORE you undertake a project you must go through an extensive
review and that means no new immigration, or very little, until the review can
be completed. Holy scare the living heck out of the open borders crowd,
Batman!! And then what if the review shows the real damage being done to
the environment is substantial (and it would be hard not to)? What
would the remedy be? Too horrible for both the “borders mean nothing”
crowd or the crony capitalists to contemplate.
Well now, the good news.
Finally, in 2017, 48 years after NEPA was enacted, that bipartisan “blind-eye”
toward immigration is being challenged.
A coalition of non-profit
organizations led by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), an affiliate
of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has filed a lawsuit to force
federal agencies to follow the requirements of NEPA and examine the impact of
mass immigration on the environment. The lawsuit was filed in October of 2016
in federal district court against the Department of Homeland Security, but, if
successful, it would lead to changes in many other federal agencies as well.
The 85-page Preliminary
Statement filed by nine plaintiffs in the U.S. Federal Court for the District
of Southern California opens with this statement of a claim against the federal
Homeland Security agency:
Like its predecessor agency,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”), DHS has turned a blind eye
regarding the environmental impacts, including the cumulative impacts, of its
actions concerning foreign nationals who enter and settle into the United
States pursuant to the agency’s discretionary actions. The resulting
environmental impacts from these actions are significant and an analysis of
these impacts by DHS is required pursuant to the National Environmental Policy
Act (“NEPA”), see 42
U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (2016),
and its implementing regulations. But DHS, like INS before it, undertakes no
such NEPA review. Accordingly, DHS is acting in contravention of its legal
obligations.
The lawsuit was the subject of
a September 23, 2017, presentation at the annual meeting of the Writers
Workshop in Washington, DC, which can be viewed here.
Full and equitable enforcement
of the National Environmental Policy Act is 48 years overdue. Citizens who want
immigration policy to reflect national priorities and not “global citizenship”
should support the new lawsuit and demand the same of our elected officials.
MEXICO CONQUERED AMERICAN BY BREEDING BABIES FOR
WELFARE…. LA RAZA DOUBLED U.S. POPULATION AND VOTED TO SURRENDER AMERICAN
BORDERS FOR EASY PLUNDERING BY NARCOMEX.
“Through love of having children we're going to take
over."
Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets,
militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S.
citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
US
immigration population hits record 60 million, 1-of-5 in nation
Census: Immigration
to bust 100-year record, continue surging
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A huge boom in
immigration, legal and illegal, over the past 16 years has jumped the immigrant
population to over 43 million in the United States, according to a
new report.
And when their
U.S.-born children are added, the number grows to over 60 million, making the
immigrant community nearly one-fifth of the nation's population, according to
federal statistics reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Steven
Camarota, the
Center's director of research and co-author of the report, said, "The
enormous number of immigrants already in the country coupled with the
settlement of well over a million newcomers each year has a profound impact on
American society, including on workers, schools, infrastructure, hospitals and
the environment. The nation needs a serious debate about whether continuing
this level of immigration makes sense."
Concerns about the explosion
of immigration, especially of illegals, helped Donald Trump win the presidency
and has prompted his administration to crack down on illegal immigration and
refugees.
The new report does not
break down the percentage of legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S., although
there are an estimated 12 million undocumented aliens in the country.
It found that since
2000, the U.S. immigrant population has increased 8 million and a sizable
number came from Mexico and Latin America, the source of most illegal
immigrants.
Key findings:
- The
nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a record 43.7
million in July 2016, an increase of half a million since 2015, 3.8
million since 2010, and 12.6 million since 2000.
- As a
share of the U.S. population, immigrants (legal and illegal) comprised
13.5 percent, or one out of eight U.S. residents in 2016, the highest
percentage in 106 years. As recently as 1980, just one out of 16 residents
was foreign-born.
- Between
2010 and 2016, 8.1 million new immigrants settled in the United States.
New arrivals are offset by the roughly 300,000 immigrants who return home
each year and annual natural mortality of about 300,000 among the existing
foreign-born population. As a result, growth in the immigrant population
was 3.8 million 2010 to 2016.
- In
addition to immigrants, there were slightly more than 16.6 million
U.S.-born minor children with an immigrant parent in 2016, for a total of
60.4 million immigrants and their children in the country. Immigrants and
their minor children now account for nearly one in five U.S. residents.
- Mexican
immigrants (legal and illegal) were by far the largest foreign-born
population in the country in 2016. Mexico is the top sending country, with
1.1 million new immigrants arriving from Mexico between 2010 and 2016, or
one out of eight new arrivals. However, because of return migration and
natural mortality among the existing population, the overall Mexican-born
population has not grown in the last six years.
- The
states with the largest numerical increases in the number of immigrants
from 2010 to 2016 were Texas (up 587,889), Florida (up 578,468),
California (up 527,234), New York (up 238,503), New Jersey (up 171,504),
Massachusetts (up 140,318), Washington (up 134,132), Pennsylvania (up
131,845), Virginia (up 120,050), Maryland (up 118,175), Georgia (up
95,353), Nevada (up 78,341), Arizona (up 78,220), Michigan (up 74,532),
Minnesota (up 73,953), and North Carolina (up 70,501).
Paul Bedard, the
Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be
contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com
Adios,
California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
JUDICIAL WATCH
Illegal
Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
ILLEGALS
& WELFARE
70% OF
ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In
The United States.
“According
to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican
illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be
sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE
will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting
for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with
along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each
year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal
aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does
not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in
our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In
The United States.
POPULATION EXPLOSION FOR GRINGO WELFARE
THE HORDES OF ILLEGALS KEEP COMING…. Despite
America’s jobs, housing and Mexican crime tidal wave.
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