While
Democrats Think This Bill Will Increase Illegal Immigration, The Opposite Will
Happen
By John R. Lott, Jr.
By Jason Hopkins
Business and Politics Review
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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/10/bloomberg-pledges-to-investigate-ice-and-end-trump-policies-in-newly-unveiled-immigration-plan-885552
THERE IS A REASON WHY ALL
BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS AND WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY AND NO E-VERIY!
The state of California is home to more
illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal
aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4
million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows
illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States to seek
welfare and food stamp benefits.
Tom
Steyer: Americans Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor
and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to
illegal immigrants.
“A Steyer Administration will …
ensure that all undocumented communities have access to affordable and safe
housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal.
Steyer’s offer of housing is
combined with promises to provide illegals with free healthcare, plus workplace
training and cultural celebrations:
A Steyer administration … [will]
provide a safe platform for immigrants to share their culture and celebrate
their heritage, foster opportunities for public service that support new
Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the private sector in order
to build workforce training and fellowship opportunities for immigrants with
professional qualifications from their home nation to help them leverage their
specialized skills in the American marketplace.
Steyer made his promise of cheap
housing to illegals even though housing costs for many Americans forces them to
rent or buy cheaper housing far from work and friends, and are being forced to
give up hopes for larger families.
But those housing costs are high
partly because the federal government welcomes one million new legal immigrants
into the nation’s cities, neighborhoods, and schools. That is a huge inflow —
four million young Americans turn 18 each year.
But Steyer is a billionaire
investor, so illegal migrants will not be moving into his very expensive and
well policed neighborhood. The New Yorker magazine described
his house in 2013:
President [barack Obama] flew to San
Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers. He stopped in first at a
cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a fifty-six-year-old billionaire,
former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to the Democratic Party. Steyer
lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a house overlooking the Golden
Gate Bridge.
Any inflow of migrants will be a
boon to Steyer’s fellow investors who gain from the extra workers, consumers,
and renters. For example, one gauge of real estate investments shows a 50 percent
gain since 2015, even as Americans’
wages and salaries rose by only about 15 percent.
Meanwhile, Steyer’s home state is
experiencing record housing prices and record homelessness as today’s illegals
enjoy the state government’s offer of sanctuary, jobs, and welfare. The federal
housing agency reported January 7 the
state has about 108,000 homeless:
This year’s report shows that there
was a small increase in the one-night estimates of people experiencing
homelessness across the nation between 2018 and 2019 (three percent), which
reflects a 16 percent increase in California, and offsets a marked decrease
across many other states.
…
In terms of absolute numbers,
California has more than half of all unsheltered homeless people in the country
(53 percent or 108,432), with nearly nine times as many unsheltered homeless as
the state with the next highest number, Florida (six percent or 12,476),
despite California’s population being only twice that of Florida.
In September Breitbart News reported the Census
Bureau showed how the state’s housing costs are pushing Americans into poverty:
The September 10 study shows 18.2
percent of California’s population is poor, far above the 13 percent poverty
rate in Arkansas, 16 percent in Mississippi, and the 14.6 percent in West
Virginia.
…
By 2017, for example, the
government’s pro-migration policies had added 11 million people to the state’s
native population of 29 million people. The huge inflow means that one-in-four
residents are immigrants.
Numerous studies have shown many
millions of foreigners want to migrate into Americans’ society. For example,
another five million Central American residents want to migrate into the
United States, according to a Gallup survey published
right after the 2018 midterm elections.
Gallup also noted “three percent of
the world’s adults — or nearly 160 million people — say they would like to move
to the U.S.”
California's poverty rate is worse than
Alabama & Mississippi, says Census Bureau. The major cause of this huge
change is immigration policy which spikes housing costs & shrinks wages --
and delivers huge gains for investors in real-estate & corp. shares. http://bit.ly/2mgvBlW
California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs
Steyer’s promise to welcome illegals
is echoed by the other investor billionaire in the Democrats’ primary, Mike
Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. In January, he promised to make
illegals comfortable with Americans’ money, telling the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Well, it’s a no brainer. You give
[a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million people. We’re not going to deport them
anyways, it’s outrageous. If you look in New York City, we make sure that
people felt comfortable, regardless of their immigration status, to come and
get city services. I was always determined that they would not be afraid to
come. Somebody could need like life-threatening things and does not get medical
care. This is not a game. You’ve got to make sure that they’re okay.
Housing costs in Bloomberg’s New
York are very high because it has huge
populations of illegal and legal
immigrants. The result is that it has a homeless population of roughly 92,000,
and also the nation’s highest
rate of homelessness, at 46
homeless for every 10,000 people.
High housing costs also make it
difficult for Americans to move into towns and cities that have better-paying
jobs, according to a 2017 study about the
rising wealth gap in the United States. Americans “are frozen where
they live,” said Tom Donohue, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at a
January 9 meeting.
But nearly all of the Democrats in
the 2020 election have called for more migrants — without showing any concern
for the impact on Americans’ housing costs.
“We could afford to take in a
heartbeat another two million people,” Joe Biden told Democrats at an August
event in Des Moines, Iowa. “The idea that a country of 330 million people
is cannot absorb people who are in desperate need … is absolutely
bizarre … I would also move to increase the total number of
immigrants able to come to the United States.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s
immigration plan, for example, is titled “A
Fair and Welcoming Immigration System.” It says:
We need expanded legal immigration
that will grow our economy, reunite families, and meet our labor market demands
… s president, I will immediately issue guidance to end criminal
prosecutions for simple administrative immigration violations … As
President, I’ll issue guidance ensuring that detention is only used where it is
actually necessary because an individual poses a flight or safety risk
… I’ll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and ramping up to at least
175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
The impact of federal immigration
policy on Americans’ housing costs is taboo among establishment reporters. But
those costs were touted by a group of investors lobbying Congress to raise
housing prices by importing more immigrants. A booklet by the Economic
Innovation Group says:
The relationship between population
growth and housing demand is clear. More people means more demand for housing,
and fewer people means less demand … As a result, a shrinking population will
lead to falling prices and a deteriorating, vacancy-plagued housing stock that
may take generations to clear
…
The potential for skilled immigrants
to boost local housing markets is clear. Notably, economist Albert Saiz (2007)
found a 1% increase in population from immigration causes housing rents and
house prices in U.S. cities to rise commensurately, by 1%
On January 9, Donohue noted New
Yorkers blocked the plan by Amazon and the city government to build a new
corporate headquarters in the city. The residents protested the development
plan partly because it would have driven up rents and housing costs, said Donohue.
“It is a very potent issue,” he observed.
A lobbying group for investors admits mass
migration helps investors in major coastal cities but 'fails' Americans in
heartland & rural towns. So it urges less immigration? No - it urges more
migration to spike family housing prices outside major cities! http://bit.ly/2VCZYUt
NYT Boosts Investors' Campaign for More
Immigrant Workers, Consumers
Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as
impoverished Americans wait
Want
some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless
encampments hovering around?
Try the
reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the
U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely
unemployable. Those
are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier.
Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold
awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the
tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in
blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San
Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum,
it's worth looking at.
The Trump
administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying
to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this
year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era
regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for
assistance
without having to disclose their
status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only
would the leaseholder using public housing have to be an eligible U.S. person,
but the government would verify all applicants through the Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, a federal system that’s used to
weed illegal immigrants out of other welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would
have to go through a new verification, though it would be over a period of time
and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal
aliens were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many
of our own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re
sending the message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the
taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times
notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant
families are getting full rides based on just one member being born in the
U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S.
in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along
with her entire family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how
heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to
find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants
would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The
problem of course is that Americans who paid into these programs, and the
subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.
The
fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal
immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the
hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from
others as they take this housing benefit under legal technicalities.
That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is
comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly
celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S.
out cold.
The Trump
administration is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't
imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories,
the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in
Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid nearly $1.3
billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That figure
amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox
News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens
than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens
lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal
immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant
parents with children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp
benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from
the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare
and food stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in
2015, $2.9 billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of
2017, more than 60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in
benefits in 2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million
in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who
studies poverty and illegal
immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector
said. It can cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay
for things like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed
a resolution making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new
legal protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor Jerry Brown
signed SB
54 into law. This bill made California, in
Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice Department filed a
lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A federal
judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
According
to Center for Immigration Studies, “The new law does many
things: It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices,
it bars any law enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program,
and it prevents state and local police from inquiring about individuals’ immigration
status.”
Some counties in California have protested its
implementation and joined the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the
state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to
illegal immigrants did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His
successor, Gavin Newsom, is just as focused as Brown in funding programs
for illegal residents at the expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually
to the One California program, which provides free legal assistance to all
aliens, including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public
universities easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on
United States Taxpayers 2017
report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants
living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116 billion burden on
the national economy and taxpayers each year, after deducting the $19 billion
in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN THE U.S.
AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY, THEY ARE LEGALLY
ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY LEAVING MEXICO
DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than
22 million non-citizens now live in the United States.
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
Bob Gathany / AL.com via AP
3:19
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of
the Universe” want more legal immigration to the United States to further
diminish the incomes of American working and middle-class families.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Brooks said
recent demands to increase the number of foreign workers coming to the U.S. to
compete against American citizens for jobs is merely an effort by corporations
to deplete the earnings of Americans.
Brooks said:
I’m not a part of the Masters of the Universe crowd who thinks we
ought to be bringing in all this foreign labor and the reason for it is pure economics. This is the chance for Americans and lawful immigrants who are already here who are working
in the blue-collar trades, who are working in the places where
wages are not as high they ought to be, this is their chance to prosper. [Emphasis added]
And to the extent you import a lot of foreign labor, then you are
artificially increasing the labor supply which in turn means that you’re
artificially suppressing the wages of American families who are often hard-pressed to make ends meet So I
respectfully disagree that we need more foreign labor, to the contrary, I would like to see us reduce the foreign labor that comes into
America so that American families who are struggling to make ends meet, particularly those of us who are earning the least
amounts, would be better to take care of
their own families and less likely to be dependent on the welfare. [Emphasis added]
Brooks said Democrats support for mass legal immigration is
centered on the premise that increasing the number of foreign workers in the
U.S. will decrease Americans’ wages, thus forcing many into poverty and
becoming welfare recipients. This, Brooks said, is how Democrats create a
permanent dependent class of Democrat voters.
“Don’t get me wrong, [Democrats] want to decrease the incomes of
Americans so that they’re dependent on welfare,” Brooks said.
That makes them in turn likely Democrat voters and the best way to
do that is to have a huge surge in the labor supply, particularly illegal
aliens, that will depress their wages therefore creating more Democrats who are dependent on welfare at the same time as they
bring in illegal aliens who also under Democrat doctrine will be allowed to
vote and those types of voters, they’re also dependent on welfare. [Emphasis
added]
“About 70 percent of illegal alien households are on welfare …
plus this is a bloc of voters that seems unusually susceptible to the racial
divisions that the Democrats advance,” Brooks said. “You have to look at the
big picture in all of this, and to me, we should not be importing as much
foreign labor as we are. We should be helping the least among us earn more and
importing foreign labor that suppresses wages is not the way to do that.”
Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.2 legal immigrants
annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next
two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15
million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in
the country through chain migration, where newly naturalized citizens can bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
Breitbart
News Tonight broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125
from 9:00 p.m. to Midnight Eastern (6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Pacific).
Key findings in the
report:
- Shortages
should not occur in a free market
- Tight
labor markets benefit marginalized groups
- Wages
have been stagnant over the long term
- Labor
force participation is down over the long term
- Domestic
industries should hire Americans
- Natives
participate in all major occupations
- Plenty
of STEM workers are available
- Gains
to the economy are not the same as gains to natives
- Immigration
is not an efficient solution to population aging
BLOG: IS THIS FOR REAL?!?!?
·
But Bloomberg also wraps his
economic demand for more immigrants in a progressive-style cultural message.
·
Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune that
amnesty “is a no-brainer — you give [a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million
people.”
·
In December, Bloomberg said additional immigrants could “improve our culture, our
cuisine, our religion, our dialogue, and certainly improve our economy” — but
without being asked by reporters which American cultures, cuisines, religions,
and dialogues do not meet his standards.
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
3:19
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of
the Universe” want more legal immigration to the United States to further
diminish the incomes of American working and middle-class families.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Brooks said
recent demands to increase the number of foreign workers coming to the U.S. to
compete against American citizens for jobs is merely an effort by corporations
to deplete the earnings of Americans.
Brooks said:
I’m not a part of the Masters of the Universe crowd who thinks we
ought to be bringing in all this foreign labor and the reason for it is pure economics. This is the chance for Americans and lawful immigrants who are already here who are working
in the blue-collar trades, who are working in the places where
wages are not as high they ought to be, this is their chance to prosper. [Emphasis added]
And to the extent you import a lot of foreign labor, then you are
artificially increasing the labor supply which in turn means that you’re
artificially suppressing the wages of American families who are often hard-pressed to make ends meet So I
respectfully disagree that we need more foreign labor, to the contrary, I would like to see us reduce the foreign labor that comes into
America so that American families who are struggling to make ends meet, particularly those of us who are earning the least
amounts, would be better to take care of
their own families and less likely to be dependent on the welfare. [Emphasis added]
Brooks said Democrats support for mass legal immigration is
centered on the premise that increasing the number of foreign workers in the
U.S. will decrease Americans’ wages, thus forcing many into poverty and
becoming welfare recipients. This, Brooks said, is how Democrats create a
permanent dependent class of Democrat voters.
“Don’t get me wrong, [Democrats] want to decrease the incomes of
Americans so that they’re dependent on welfare,” Brooks said.
That makes them in turn likely Democrat voters and the best way to
do that is to have a huge surge in the labor supply, particularly illegal
aliens, that will depress their wages therefore creating more Democrats who are dependent on welfare at the same time as they
bring in illegal aliens who also under Democrat doctrine will be allowed to
vote and those types of voters, they’re also dependent on welfare. [Emphasis
added]
“About 70 percent of illegal alien households are on welfare …
plus this is a bloc of voters that seems unusually susceptible to the racial
divisions that the Democrats advance,” Brooks said. “You have to look at the
big picture in all of this, and to me, we should not be importing as much
foreign labor as we are. We should be helping the least among us earn more and
importing foreign labor that suppresses wages is not the way to do that.”
Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.2 legal immigrants
annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next
two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15
million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in
the country through chain migration, where newly naturalized citizens can bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
Breitbart News Tonight broadcasts live on SiriusXM
Patriot Channel 125 from 9:00 p.m. to Midnight Eastern (6:00 p.m.-9:00
p.m. Pacific).
Mike
Bloomberg: Employers Should Hire ‘the Best’ Foreigners Instead of Americans
Investor,
CEO, and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg says
he
would allow investors and employers to hire the “the best”
workers
from around the world instead of Americans.
BLOG:
‘THE BEST’ ARE NOT HIS ILLITERATE MEXICANS HE IS HISPANDERING TO!
“This country needs more immigrants
and we should be out looking for immigrants,” Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune on
January 5.:
For those who need an oboe player for a symphony, we want the
best one. We need a striker for a soccer team, we want to get the best one. We
want a farmworker, we want to get the best one. A computer programmer, we want
to get the best one. So we should be out looking for more immigrants.
The reporter did not ask Bloomberg to define “best.” But for
cost-conscious shareholders and executives, “best” is a synonym for ‘cheaper
than Americans.’
“If business were able to hire without restrictions from
anywhere in the world, pretty much every [American’s] occupation would be
foreignized,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration
Studies. He continued:
Americans would have to accept dramatically lower earnings,
whether they object or not. Not just landscapers and tomato pickers, [because]
Indians and Chinese by the millions can do nursing and accounting. There would
not be any job that would not see its earnings fall to the global average.
Bloomberg — who has an estimated wealth of $55 billion — is
trying to exempt investors and shareholders from the nation’s immigration
rules, said Krikorian. For Bloomberg, “immigration laws are not one of those
things that should be allowed to interfere in [the growth of] shareholders’
value,” he said.
“It is obviously unprecedented — but this is not obviously
different from [President] George [W.] Bush’s ideal immigration plan … [and] he
is expressing a pretty standard Republican plutocrat approach to
immigration,” he added.
Out of common sense and fairness, our laws should allow willing
workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans have are not filling.
(Applause.) We must make our immigration laws more rational, and more humane.
And I believe we can do so without jeopardizing the livelihoods of American
citizens.
Our reforms should be guided by a few basic principles. First,
America must control its borders …
Second, new immigration laws should serve the economic needs of
our country. If an American employer is offering a job that American citizens
are not willing to take, we ought to welcome into our country a person who will
fill that job.
In December 2018, departing House
Speaker Paul Ryan echoed Bush’s
“any willing worker” goal, saying:
[Immigration reform needs] border security and interior
enforcement for starters, but also a modernization of our visa system so that
it makes sense for our economy and for our people so that anyone who wants to
play by the rules, work hard and be part of American fabric can contribute.
This “any willing worker” idea
encouraged Ryan to work closely — but behind the scenes — with pro-amnesty, pro-migration
groups.
Many GOP legislators echo this “any willing worker” claim when
they declare a “‘legal good, illegal bad,’ approach to migration,” said
Krikorian. That mantra is “piously claiming that illegal immigration is bad,
but is making [pro-American protections] moot by letting huge numbers of people
in legally.”
In contrast, President Donald Trump won his 2016 election on a
promise to shrink immigration. Since then, he has forced down illegal migration
via Mexico and has largely blocked numerous efforts by business to expand the
huge inflow of legal immigrants and visa workers. Trump’s curbs on the supply
of foreign labor have helped to force up wages for blue-collar Americans —
despite determined efforts by business and investment groups to prevent wage
increases.
Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher wages in 2019, up from almost 40%
in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
Pay Raises and Training
Expand in Donald Trump's Tight Labor Market
Bloomberg’s “best worker” pitch is not a problem for the
Democrats’ 2020 base of “woke” progressives, said Krikorian:
He is running in the Democratic primary and there is an overlap
between the plutocrat assault on national borders and the leftist assault on
national borders. They come at the issue from the different starting points but
they have the same enemy, which is Americans’ sovereignty. It is not obvious
that his [pro-employer] immigration stance is going to be a turn-off to Democratic
primary votes.. How different are the specifics of his immigration proposal
from [Joe] Biden, Sen. [Bernie] Sanders or [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren?
Biden, Sanders, and Warren endorse
wide-open borders as a form of charity towards unlucky foreigners fleeing from
home country persecution. For example, a January 5 tweet from Biden said:
Our Statue of Liberty invites in the tired, the poor, the
huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Donald Trump has slammed the door in
the face of families fleeing persecution and violence.
Bloomberg’s pro-employer view is coherent and likely sincere,
said Krikorian.
Bloomberg aspires to a single global labor market, and
everything else follows from that. A concern about improving the lot of
less-skilled American workers is by definition contrary to that view because
there is no such thing as an American labor market. There is only a global
labor market. Domestic employers are not thinking about the consequences for
people from Pennsylvania when they hire people from Tennessee, and Bloomberg
wants that same approach across the entire world.
There is even an altruistic way of viewing that — which I
assume guys like this have — that it improves the lot of Hondurans [and other
migrants] who are coming here.
The issue is not that Bloomberg and his guys are factually
incorrect. It is that their values are contrary to the values that most
Americans hold – which is that we have a greater loyalty and obligation to our
fellow countrymen than to foreigners. Guys like Bloomberg reject that
[obligation] in principle.
A Rasmussen survey shows likely voters by 2:1 want Congress to make
companies hire & train US grads & workers instead of importing more
foreign workers.
The survey also shows this $/class-based view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE
The survey also shows this $/class-based view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE
Rasmussen Shows 2:1
Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration
But Bloomberg also wraps his economic demand for more immigrants
in a progressive-style cultural message.
Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune that
amnesty “is a no-brainer — you give [a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million
people.”
In December, Bloomberg said additional immigrants could “improve our culture, our
cuisine, our religion, our dialogue, and certainly improve our economy” — but
without being asked by reporters which American cultures, cuisines, religions,
and dialogues do not meet his standards.
Bloomberg also echoes the Democrats’ claim that the U.S is a
diverse “nation of immigrants,” instead of a country built by similar-minded
settlers from Europe. “This country was built by immigrants,” Bloomberg said,
without noting the role played by Americans and their children.
Bloomberg has long supported greater
immigration. In 2013, he joined with the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, to
create the Project for a New American Economy. The group of investors and
politicians then pushed for
passage of the failed Gang of Eight amnesty in 2013.
The Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) predicted the planned “Gang of Eight” amnesty would shift more of
the nation’s new wealth from workers to investors.
The flood of roughly 30 million
immigrants in ten years would cause Americans’ wages to shrink, the report
said. “Because the bill would increase the rate of growth of the labor force,
average wages would be held down in the first decade after enactment,” the CBO
report said.
But all that cheap labor would boost the profits and the stock
market, the report said. “The rate of return on capital would be higher [than
on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout the next two
decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
For Bloomberg, Krikorian said, U.S.
“employers have no greater obligation to fellow Americans than to Hondurans [or
other foreign workers] … what Bloomberg is saying is that immigration laws
should not interfere with the pursuit of shareholder value [because] employers
can hire anyone from anywhere at any wage, period.”
Estb. media and esp. WashPo journos cannot, or dare not, follow the $$$ in
immigration politics.
For example, the WashPo article on @SenMikeLee's @S368 bill to expand the outsourcing of U.S. grads' jobs.
Maybe b/c the money ends up in Jeff Bezos' pocket. http://bit.ly/2tChhYt
For example, the WashPo article on @SenMikeLee's @S368 bill to expand the outsourcing of U.S. grads' jobs.
Maybe b/c the money ends up in Jeff Bezos' pocket. http://bit.ly/2tChhYt
Munro: WashPost Message to
U.S. Graduates -- Drop Dead
EconomyImmigrationPoliticsAmnestyDonald TrumpGeorge W. BushH-1BimmigrationMichael BloombergMigrantsmigrationNation of
Immigrantsvisa workerswages
BUY
THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES… WHO DOES IT BETTER THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
BILLIONAIRE CLASS?
Mike
Bloomberg Offers ’60 Million’ Latinos: $15 Per Hour Plus Mass Migration
Michael
Bloomberg is making a pitch for Latino votes with an offer of $15 per hour
wages — but also a flood of new Latino migrants eager to compete for jobs,
apartments, and K-12 desks in Latino communities.
“I believe we can once again be a country that welcomes
immigrants, values immigrants, respects immigrants, and empowers them to pursue
the American Dream,” Bloomberg said in a January 30 tweet.
The conflicting policy offer reflects shared goals of the
Democrat Party’s two main leadership factions: Bloomberg and other investors
who are eager for imported consumers and workers, and progressives who are
eager for imported pro-government voters.
I believe we can once again be a country
that welcomes immigrants, values immigrants, respects immigrants, and empowers
them to pursue the American Dream. https://mikebloom.bg/36ItgSn
In contrast,
President Donald Trump promised a low-immigration, “Hire American” policy on
Inauguration Day, helping salaries rise for millions of blue-collar Americans,
including Latinos. Unemployment rates for Latinos are now at a record low,
and wages are at a record high. Half of the 21.5 million working Latinos earn above $712 a week,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median wage for Latinos is
almost $18 per hour.
Bloomberg’s pitch offered a combination of government-engineered
higher wages, more social status, and more opportunities for voters’ children:
Today, I’m releasing my plan to bring security and a new path
forward to the 60 million Latinos who live in our country, Our path forward
starts by improving economic security. By expanding the earned income tax credit,
and by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
…
And we’ll make sure Latino American families have health
insurance. No one should ever be denied access to care.
Just as
pro-amnesty President George W. Bush did in 2002, Bloomberg is
also promising to spur homeownership among Latinos:
We will also increase homeownership in the Latino community by
providing down-payment assistance and increasing access to capital.
But Bloomberg’s pitch to “60 million” Latinos — including at
least 11 million illegal immigrants — reflects his willingness to characterize
Latinos by their ethnic group instead of their American nationality:
We’ll enact comprehensive immigration reform. We will create a
path to legalization and citizenship for the 11 million people living in the
shadows … We will get it done.
A vast majority of American Latinos — and many Latino migrants —
oppose mass migration because it will make it difficult for them to earn good
wages, buy decent houses, and get a good education for their kids.
Mike’s plan
for Latinos in the U.S. (El Paso
Adelante, The Path Forward) invests in Latino communities to boost
prosperity and economic security. President Trump has vilified, dehumanized and
hurt the Latino community. As president Mike Bloomberg will reverse that damage
by addressing hate crimes and gun violence, closing the education, wealth, and
health gap between Latinos and whites, and creating pathways to citizenship for
millions of Latinos in the U.S.
…
Clear the naturalization backlog and create a path to
citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
His plan will provide permanent protections for Dreamers and
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, shielding them from deportation and
putting them on a pathway to citizenship. Additionally, the plan will expand
immigration legal services.
Bloomberg has long supported an economic policy of stimulating
Wall Street with a flood of imported consumers, renters, and workers. That
flood will expand sales, raise real-estate prices, and flatline wages.
Those changes would spike stock values and transfer more of the
nation’s new wealth and political power from family wage-earners to elderly
stockholders, such as Bloomberg, whose estimated wealth is $60 billion.
The combination of a $15 minimum wage and the inflow of many
healthy young migrants would also pressure U.S. employers to discard older,
higher-paid Americans. If Bloomberg’s investor-driven visions were enacted, employers
would race to sideline many employes who are older, or disabled, or uneducated,
or who earn higher wages.
Like Bush,
Bloomberg’s policy is focussed on the needs of investors and employers, not of
American workers. “This country needs more immigrants and we should be out
looking for immigrants,” Bloomberg told the San Diego Union-Tribune on
January 5:
For those who need an oboe player for a symphony, we want the
best one. We need a striker for a soccer team, we want to get the best one. We
want a farmworker, we want to get the best one. A computer programmer, we want
to get the best one. So we should be out looking for more immigrants.
Mike Bloomberg says employers &
investors should be allowed to hire "the best" employees from around
the world.
Usually, the best = cheapest.
After all, who believes immig laws should inconvenience investors?
PS. How many Bloomberg journos pass the test?http://bit.ly/2T1suws
Usually, the best = cheapest.
After all, who believes immig laws should inconvenience investors?
PS. How many Bloomberg journos pass the test?http://bit.ly/2T1suws
Bloomberg: Employers
Should Hire 'Best' Foreigners Instead of Americans
“We need an
awful lot more immigrants rather than less,” Bloomberg told reporters in November
after he filed the paperwork needed to join the Democratic Party’s primary in
Arizona:
We have to go out and actually try to recruit immigrants to come
here. We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the
country needs – improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue,
and certainly improve our economy.
“The grandson of immigrants, Mike believes in the power of the
American Dream,” says Bloomberg immigration agenda. It continues:
Throughout his career, he has been a passionate advocate for
welcoming immigrants and fixing the broken immigration system. Immigrants make
our country stronger, and Mike is focused on reclaiming America’s role as the
beacon of freedom and opportunity for people from around the world.
Mike formed the pro-immigration organization New American
Economy, representing more than 500 mayors and CEOs from all 50 states who are
highlighting the contributions of immigrants.
Bloomberg’s
New American Economy group was formed in 2013 to push for
passage of the “Gang of Eight” bill, which would have boosted stockholders and
also flatlined wages for at least ten years, according to the Congressional
Budget Office. The bill provided an amnesty for all illegal aliens, doubled the
annual inflow of legal immigrants to two million — even as four million
Americans turned 18 each year — and allowed an unlimited inflow of foreign
college graduates.
“The rate of
return on capital would be higher [than on labor] under the legislation than
under current law throughout the next two decades,” says the CBO report, titled
“The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
“The legislation would particularly increase the number of
workers with lower or higher skills but would have less effect on the number of
workers with average skills. … The wages of lower- and higher-skilled workers
would tend to be pushed downward slightly (by less than ½ percent) relative to
the wages of workers with average skills,” said the CBO report.
Bloomberg’s
NEA website tries to build support for amnesty and more immigration by
producing many studies. For example, a January 2020 report boasted that “New Data Shows
Immigrants Make Up More Than 60 Percent of Middlesex County’s STEM Workers and
Nearly Half of Business Owners.”
Michael Bloomberg: Government Should
Import ‘an Awful Lot More’ Immigrants
Democratic 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he will
recruit “an awful lot more” immigrants “to take all the different kinds of
jobs” in the U.S. economy.
The immigrants can “improve our culture, our cuisine, our
religion, our dialogue, and certainly improve our economy,” Bloomberg told
reporters without naming the American cultures, cuisines, religions, and
dialogues that would be improved.
Bloomberg’s comments reflect the views of wealthy investors who
gain stock market wealth when the government imports more workers,
welfare-aided consumers, and extra renters into communities created by
Americans and their children.
In his comments, Bloomberg echoed the 1960s claim that the
U.S is a diverse “nation of immigrants,” instead of a country build by
similar-minded settlers from Europe. “This country was built by immigrants,”
Bloomberg said, without noting the role played by Americans and their children.
Bloomberg, who owns roughly $55 billion in assets, has long
supported mass migration. In 2013, he joined with the owner of Fox News, Rupert
Murdoch, to create the Project for a New American Economy. The group of
investors and politicians pushed for passage of the
Gang of Eight amnesty in 2013.
In 2019, the group is pushing for the S.386 law
that would help investors by encouraging many more Indian
graduates to take white-collar jobs from American graduates.
Bloomberg’s group is also pushing for legislation
that would provide an endless supply of H-2A visa workers to investors in the
agriculture sector. The wage-capped workers would likely displace Americans, reduce
pressure on investors to buy high-tech farm machinery, and convert many
agriculture towns into “company towns” dominated by a single employer.
NC GOP @SenThomTillis wants to reward India's workers who take
US jobs from American graduates. He's backing @SenMikeLee's @S386 bill which gives citizenship to Indians
for taking Americans' jobs. Big subsidy for US investors, big loss for NC
graduates. http://bit.ly/2rp19J3
The U.S. already imports many immigrants — roughly one million
per year, even as four million Americans turn 18 and prepare to join the
workforce.
“We need an awful lot more immigrants rather than less,”
Bloomberg told reporters after he filed the paperwork needed to join the
Democratic Party’s primary in Arizona:
We have to go out and actually try to recruit immigrants to come
here. We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the
country needs – improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue,
and certainly improve our economy.
Bloomberg — who has a personal wealth of roughly $55 billion —
then blasted President Donald Trump’s campaign to block the wave of Central
American migrants sparked by the establishment’s tacit support for mass
migration:
I think what Donald Trump has done, of ripping kids away from
their [migrant] parents, is a disgrace. I think of what we’re done, where we
don’t know who we’re taking in, and we don’t help people when we’re here, is a
disgrace. I think talking about deporting 11 million people is so outrageous to
try to explain to your kids what that was all about. Our immigration system is
broken and we’re not doing anything to fix it.
In 2013, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted the planned “Gang
of Eight” amnesty would shift more of the nation’s new wealth from workers to
investors.
The flood of roughly 30 million immigrants in ten years would
cause Americans wages to shrink, the report said. “Because the bill would
increase the rate of growth of the labor force, average wages would be held
down in the first decade after enactment,” the CBO report said.
But all that cheap labor would boost the profits and the stock
market, the report said. “The rate of return on capital would be higher [than
on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout the next two
decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
In contrast, Trump’s opposition to Central American migrants and
to amnesty bills sought by the establishment has helped to nudge up wages for
blue-collar Americans, especially in the midwest battleground states, according
to a November 26 report posted by Bloomberg’s news
service:
Personal income growth has been surging in some political U.S.
battlegrounds, including a third of the counties in Pennsylvania — which Donald
Trump narrowly flipped in 2016 and may need to win re-election next year.
In the president’s first two years in office, a total of 325
counties representing nearly 6% of the U.S. population experienced their best
annualized income gains since at least 1992, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg News. And 127 of those are located in perennial swing states,
including Ohio and Iowa.
Good news: GOP Reps. voted against wage-cuts and job
outsourcing.
Bad news: GOP Reps only voted against the cuts b/c they were
wrapped in a farmworker amnesty which would cut GOP jobs in 2026.
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BloombergMigrantmigrationMike
BloombergS. 386
Bloomberg Op-Ed: Immigrant Soldiers, Workers Needed for
Geopolitical Power
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NEIL MUNRO
26 Mar 2019891
5:25
U.S. geopolitical
power needs a steady supply of fresh immigrants to serve as soldiers and
workers, according to a pro-migration op-ed in Bloomberg news.
“A
large working-age population serves as a source of military manpower,” says
the op-edby Hal Brands, the Henry Kissinger
Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced
International Studies. He continues:
…
a relatively young, growing and well-educated population is a wellspring of the
economic productivity that underlies other forms of international influence … countries
with healthy demographic profiles can create wealth more easily than their
competitors [and] can also can direct a larger share of that wealth to
geopolitical projects as opposed to pensions and health care.
Brands
acknowledges — but denounces — the reality that immigration is largely
unpopular among the voters who suffer from the resulting diversity, elite
disengagement, job theft, and wage loss. That turmoil helped outsider
Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Brands dismisses the public’s
measured response as “draconian … xenophobia … race-based politics,” and
says:
…
if current trends are any indication, the U.S. could easily squander its
demographic advantages [over China and Russia] by enacting draconian
immigration restrictions or simply destroying its image as a country that
welcomes ambitious newcomers. Conversely, if the proportion of immigrants
continues to rise while the white population shrinks, xenophobia and race-based
politics could become more common and more toxic.
After
making these dire predictions, Brands declines to offer the public
anything in exchange for the diversity, political divisions, taxpayer costs,
and wage losses caused by the government policy of “refreshing the population”:
If
the U.S. is to keep its demographic edge, it will have to find ways of
reconciling two competing imperatives: refreshing the population through
immigration while preserving social and political stability.
Brands
dismisses the public’s expectation that their government serves citizens and their
children, and he instead echoes the 1960s demand that Americans must give up
their homeland to become a “nation of immigrants” to help beat Russian
communism.
In
an October 2018 article for Time magazine, Democratic Rep. Joe
Kennedy explained the
government-boosting origin of the “Nation of Immigrants” claim:
Few
felt it as deeply as President John F. Kennedy. In his 1964 book A Nation of Immigrants, recently re-released, my
great-uncle outlines the compelling case for immigration, in economic, moral,
and global terms. “The abundant resources of this land provided the foundation
for a great nation,” he writes. “But only people could make the opportunity a
reality. Immigration provided the human resources.”
Both
Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush strongly favored this cheap
labor, high growth policy. In 1990, the first President Bush signed a bill
doubling legal immigration, and in 2006 and 2007, George W. Bush pushed for a
bill that would have further increased immigration.
In
March 2019, the George W. Bush center released a
video which effectively wrote Americans out of their own nation, while urging
more immigration to spur national economic growth by reducing wages. “America’s
story is an immigrant story,” says the video. “Now as before, American is
a nation of immigrants,” says the video which refers to 280 million
Americans as the “population,” “labor force,” “workers,” and even “natives.”
George W. Bush's Bush Center posts
pro-migration, pro-business video which writes Americans out of American
history: 'America’s story is an immigrant story,' says the video, which even
describes some Americans as immigrants. http://bit.ly/2TTxfsF
George W. Bush
Center: 'America's Story Is an Immigrant Story'
Brands’
pitch, however, ignores the recent report by President Donald Trump’s economic
advisors which said the nation can continue to grow without an extra supply of
foreign workers.
There are
“plenty of [American] workers on the sidelines able to come off” and fill jobs
in the growing economy, said Rich Burkhauser, a member of Trump’s Council
of Economic Advisors. Americans’ productivity is rising and more sidelined
Americans are returning to the workforce as wages rise, said the report, titled,
“Economic Report of the President.”
Investors
and CEOs are increasingly desperate for an infusion of more foreign workers to
lower the marketplace pressure for wage increases during 2019.
Goldman Sachs says Trump's tight
labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4% raise to
blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries lagged -
maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for spaghettiOs &
green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Goldman Sachs:
Trump Raises Voters' Wages with Tight Labor Market
Each
year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after high
school or university. The federal government then imports roughly 1.1
million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5
million white-collar guest workers and roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers,
and it also tolerates about eight million illegal workers.
In
2019, because of catch-and-release rules mandated by Congress and the
courts, the federal government also will likely release at least 350,000
Central American laborers into the U.S. job market, even as at least
500,000 more migrants sneak past U.S. border defenses or overstay their visas.
Overall,
in 2019, the U.S. government will allow at least two million new foreign
workers into the United States to compete for the starter jobs sought by the
latest wave of four million U.S. graduates. The new migrants also undermine the
24 million other Americans and the roughly three million legal immigrants who
have joined the workforce since 2014.
This
federal policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic
growth for investors shifts enormous
wealth from young employees towards older investors
by flooding the
market with cheap white-collar graduates and
blue-collar foreign labor.
This cheap
labor economic policy forces Americans to compete even for low wage jobs,
it widens wealth
gaps, reduces high
tech investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college education, pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions.
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Trump: Open Borders Threatens the
Wage Gains of America’s Lowest-Income Workers
President Donald
Trump touted the wage gains for Americans in the lowest income brackets, adding
that that the open borders policies of the Democratic Party threaten those
gains.
“Since
the election, real wages have gone up 3.2 percent for the median American
worker,” Trump said in a speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of New York. “But
for the bottom income group, real wages are soaring. A number that has never
happened before. Nine percent.”
Wage
gains for those near the bottom of America’s economic ladder have been
particularly strong this year. The lowest-paid Americans saw weekly earnings
rise by more than 5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier,
according to a quarterly survey of households produced by the Labor
Department. Workers with less than a high-school diploma saw their wages
grow nearly 6 percent.
“That may
mean you make a couple of bucks less in your companies,” Trump said. “And you
know what? That’s okay. This is a great thing for our country. When you talk
about equality. This is a great thing for our country.”
The
so-called “poverty gap”–which measures the heightened poverty rate among blacks
and Hispanics compared to poverty overall–shrank to its lowest level on record
last year. The racial gap in unemployment has also contracted as unemployment rates hit
record lows this year. Black unemployment hit its lowest level on record in
November.
Trump
gave credit to the tight labor market for the improvement in wages and
employment. But opening the countries borders to new workers from abroad would
threaten those gains, he added.
“Our
tight labor market is helping them the most,” Trump said. “Yet the Democrats in
Washington want to erase these gains through an extreme policy of open borders,
flooding the labor market and driving down incomes for the poorest Americans.
And driving crime through the roof.”
Economic
studies have shown that when the supply of workers goes up, the price that
companies have to pay to hire workers goes down.
“Wage
trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the
number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of
that group by at least 3 percent,” Harvard economist George Borjas has written. “But because a disproportionate
percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is low-skilled American workers,
including many blacks and Hispanics, who have suffered most from this wage
dip.”
Record 44.5 Million
Immigrants in 2017
Non-Mexico Latin American,
Asian, and African populations grew most
Steven A. Camarota is the director of
research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center.
On September 13, the Census Bureau
released some data from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) that shows
significant growth in the immigrant (legal and illegal) population living in
the United States. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) from Latin
American countries other than Mexico, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa grew
significantly, while the number from Mexico, Europe, and Canada stayed about
the same or even declined since 2010. The Census Bureau refers to immigrants as
the "foreign-born", which includes all those who were not U.S.
citizens at birth. The Department of Homeland Security has previously estimated
that 1.9 million immigrants are missed by the ACS, so the total number of
immigrants in 2017 was likely 46.4 million.1
Among the findings in the new data:
·
The
nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a record 44.5 million in
July 2017, an increase of nearly 800,000 since 2016, 4.6 million since 2010,
and 13.4 million since 2000.
·
It
is worth noting that the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS),
released the same week but collected in March 2018, shows 45.4 million
immigrants, an increase of 1.6 million over the prior year. While the CPS is
smaller than the ACS, the newer survey may indicate the pace of growth has
accelerated.
·
As
a share of the U.S. population, the ACS (used in the remainder of this report)
shows that immigrants (legal and illegal) comprised 13.7 percent or nearly one
out of seven U.S. residents in 2017, the highest percentage in 107 years. As
recently as 1980, just one out of 16 residents was foreign-born.
·
Between
2010 and 2017, 9.5 million new immigrants settled in the United States. New
arrivals are offset by roughly 320,000 immigrants who return home each year and
natural mortality of about 290,000 annually among the existing immigrant
population.2 As a result, growth in the
immigrant population was 4.6 million from 2010 to 2017.3
·
In
addition to immigrants, there were 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children with
an immigrant parent in 2017, for a total of 61.6 million immigrants and their
children in the country — accounting for one in five U.S. residents.4
·
Of
immigrants who have come since 2010, 13 percent or 1.2 million came from Mexico
— by far the top sending country. However, because of return migration and
natural mortality among the existing population, the overall Mexican-born
population actually declined by 441,190.5
·
The
sending regions with the largest numerical increases from 2016 to 2017 in the
number of immigrants living in the United States were South America (up
233,696); East Asia (up 226,728); South Asia (up 216,495); Sub-Saharan Africa
(up 149,846); the Caribbean (up 121,120); and Central America (up 71,720).6
·
Looking
longer term, the regions with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were
East Asia, (up 1,118,937); South Asia (up 1,106,373); the Caribbean (up
676,023); Sub-Saharan Africa (up 606,835); South America (up 483,356); Central
America (up 474,504); and the Middle East (up 472,554).
·
The
decline in Mexican immigrants masks, to some extent, the enormous growth of
Latin American immigrants. If seen as one region, the number from Latin America
(excluding Mexico) grew 426,536 in just the last year and 1.6 million since
2010 — significantly more than from any other part of the world.
·
The
sending countries with the largest numerical increases in
immigrants in the United States between 2010 and 2017 were India (up 830,215);
China (up 677,312); the Dominican Republic (up 283,381); the Philippines (up
230,492); Cuba (up 207,124); El Salvador (up 187,783); Venezuela (up 167,105);
Colombia (up 146,477); Honduras (up 132,781); Guatemala (up 128,018); Nigeria
(up 125,670); Brazil (up 111,471); Vietnam (up 102,026); Bangladesh (up
95,005); Haiti (up 92,603); and Pakistan (up 92,395).
·
The
sending countries with the largest percentage increases in
immigrants since 2010 were Nepal (up 120 percent); Burma (up 95 percent);
Venezuela (up 91 percent); Afghanistan (up 84 percent); Saudi Arabia (up 83
percent); Syria (up 75 percent); Bangladesh (up 62 percent); Nigeria (up 57
percent); Kenya (up 56 percent); India (up 47 percent); Iraq (up 45 percent);
Ethiopia (up 44 percent); Egypt (up 34 percent); Brazil (up 33 percent); the
Dominican Republic (up 32 percent); Ghana (up 32 percent); China (up 31
percent); Pakistan (up 31 percent); and Somalia (up 29 percent).
·
The
states with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were
Florida (up 721,298); Texas (up 712,109); California (up 502,985); New York (up
242,769); New Jersey (up 210,481); Washington (up 173,891); Massachusetts (up
172,908); Pennsylvania (up 154,701); Virginia (up 151,251); Maryland (up
124,241); Georgia (123,009); Michigan (up 116,059); North Carolina (up
110,279); and Minnesota (up 107,760).
·
The
states with the largest percentage increases since 2010 were
North Dakota (up 87 percent); Delaware (up 37 percent); West Virginia (up 33
percent); South Dakota (up 32 percent); Wyoming (up 30 percent); Minnesota (up
28 percent); Nebraska (up 28 percent); Pennsylvania (up 21 percent); Utah (up
21 percent); and Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Washington, and Iowa
(all up 20 percent).
Data Source. On September 13, 2018, the
Census Bureau released some of the data from the 2017 American Community Survey
(ACS). The survey reflects the U.S. population as of July 1, 2017. The ACS is
by far the largest survey taken by the federal government each year and
includes over two million households.7 The Census Bureau has posted
some of the results from the ACS to its American FactFinder website.8 It has not released the
public-use version of the ACS for researchers to download and analyze. However,
a good deal of information can be found at FactFinder. Unless otherwise
indicated, the information in this analysis comes directly from FactFinder.
The immigrant population, referred to
as the "foreign-born" by the Census Bureau, is comprised of those
individuals who were not U.S. citizens at birth. It includes naturalized
citizens, legal permanent residents (green card holders), temporary workers,
and foreign students. It does not include those born to immigrants in the
United States, including to illegal immigrant parents, or those born in
outlying U.S. territories, such as Puerto Rico. Prior research by the
Department of Homeland Security and others indicates that some 90 percent of
illegal immigrants respond to the ACS. Thus all the figures reported above are
for both legal and illegal immigrants.
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