Bernie’s Billionaires
Bernie’s Billionaires
Stumping for socialism seems a pretty lucrative deal.
"We have no reason to create millionaires,” declared Fidel Castro to his Politburo. “We fight not to create millionaires.”
Castro, for the record, was much more than a millionaire. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $900 million and rising. The communist tinhorn despot ranked among the top 10 wealthiest rulers in Forbes’ annual survey, with a stash of cash and land equating to likely over a billion dollars at the time of his death.
And yet, all Cuban workers — from doctors to teachers, baseball players, dentists, farmers, janitors — subsisted at a mandated “living wage” of $1,200 per year, while the Castro brothers and a close-knit band of apparatchiks literally owned the island. Like all communist countries that tout spreading the wealth, Cuba has its filthy rich; they’re the “1 percent” of Communist Party cohorts.
Yes, American progressives and Occupy Wall Street maniacs, if you want to see a society of true 1-percenters, with an income gap that would make you cry into your Starbucks cup, go to a Marxist country. There, 99 percent of the masses make the same poverty wage, while 1 percent confiscate wealth and property.
But hey, at least the serfs have “free” education and health care!
That’s the ridiculous retort of the American Left, including Bernie Sanders.
A big fan of Castro’s revolucion is America’s top revolutionary, Bernie Sanders, who in August 1985 gushed and blubbered, “In 1961, we invaded Cuba, and everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world.”
Well, not everyone. Not Bernie, at least.
“All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro,” Sanders mocked. “They forgot that he educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.”
Bernie, then a presidential elector to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, today promises his own transformed society. He announced his 2020 presidential campaign vowing to “transform the country” and complete “the political revolution.”
That campaign includes a class-warfare campaign of agitation and propaganda.
Eerily Castro-like, Bernie echoes Fidel, albeit ratcheting up the zeroes: “There should be no billionaires,” declares Bernie.
Presumably, Bernie would have made exemptions for his wealthy pal in Havana, and no doubt for himself as well.
Bernie personally is worth at least a couple million. Like a long line of limousine leftists, mansion Marxists, and Dom Perignon Trotskyists, Bernie is no beggar. The 1980s Bolshevik Party Boy has sworn no vow of poverty or oath of economic equality with California fruit pickers and Kentucky coal miners.
Politico last May referred to Bernie as “a three-home-owning millionaire with a net worth approaching at least $2 million.” Bernie acknowledged to the New York Times his millionaire status. Among his latest homes is one he and his wife Jane bought with cash, $575,000, in the Champlain Islands, where they summer together. Graced with 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront, this is Bernie’s dacha on the Black Sea.
In addition, Bernie and Jane in 2009 dropped $405,000 on a handsome Colonial home in Burlington, Vermont. The socialist couple wasn’t finished with the land grabs. They forked over $489,000 for a row house in Washington, D.C.
Stumping for socialism seems a pretty lucrative deal.
But the masses are expected to ignore that, just as they were expected to shrug off Fidel’s excesses. Leaving his lakeside dacha for his all-expenses-paid campaign trail, Bernie pivots on a dime and rolls up the sleeves to champion the proletariat. The billionaire bourgeoisie must be liquidated!
“Billionaires should not exist.” The new fist-in-the-air slogan of the Sanders movement for social justice.
Bernie grimaces, snarls, snaps a glance at the saps in his socialist army: “not a single billionaire has donated to our campaign.” The suckers cheer their leader.
Not that Bernie is against campaign cash. In fact, it’s interesting that as Sanders stokes class envy, he wallows in a mass infusion of contributions from rich liberal cronies. His campaign reports that in December he raised more than $18 million, his best month of the election cycle, and now leads all Democrats with an impressive $34.5 million raised in the fourth quarter of the most recent fundraising session. It’s doubtful that all that coin from the cash-basher came from miserly millennials chipping in a few bucks from their parents’ allowances. You can be sure that a pile came from rich people that Bernie might otherwise denounce as capitalist reptiles. You can also be certain that Bernie and buddies — in the name of economic justice — will not be redistributing any of those precious greenbacks to immigrants at border detention centers.
“Our political revolution is powered by the working class,” snorts Bernie, explaining that such is why “not a single billionaire has donated to our campaign.”
That being the case, the Brooklyn–Vermont–Washington millionaire should put his money where his mouth is and empower the working class by funneling greedy campaign cash back to the people — the rightful owners from whom it was no doubt stolen. Sanders should sanctify the revolution, redeeming these profits and converting them into ploughshares for the working man.
Fat chance. Bernie is basking in the cash. Bernie money is good money.
“Capitalism as an economic system has to be radically altered and changed,” said Bernie in December 1987.
But as for his pocketbook, Bernie wants no radical alterations. His wallet is fat, just the way he and his fellow champagne socialists like it.
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
13 Jan 20202,348
8:12
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.
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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.
Michael Bloomberg: Government Should
Import ‘an Awful Lot More’ Immigrants
26 Nov 201932
4:25
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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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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