Census: Record 42.1 million immigrants in U.S., Mexicans drive latest surge
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Census: Record 42.1 million immigrants in U.S., Mexicans drive latest surge
By Paul Bedard • 8/13/15 1:00
A new analysis of legal and illegal immigrant counts by the Census Bureau revealed Thursday that there is a record 42.1 million in the United States, an explosion that is being driven by Mexicans flooding across the border.
In a report provided to Secrets by the Center for Immigration Studies, the total immigrant population surged 1.7 million since 2014. The growth was led in the last year by an additional 740,000 Mexican immigrants.
The 42.1 million tabulated by Census in the second quarter represent over 13 percent of the U.S. population, the biggest percentage in 105 years.
What's more, the numbers of immigrants coming and going from the U.S. is actually higher since many return home every years, said the report. "For the immigrant population to increase by one million means that significantly more than one million new immigrants must enter the country because some immigrants already here return to their homeland each year and natural mortality totals 250,000 annually," said the Center.
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The stunning growth is sure to pour fuel on the already white-hot immigration debate in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
"Illegal immigration came up in the presidential debates, but there has been little discussion of the level of immigration; this at a time when total immigration is surging according to the latest data," said Steven Camarota, co-author of the report and the Center for Immigration's director of research.
"The rapid growth in the immigrant population was foreseeable given the cutbacks in enforcement, our expansive legal immigration system, and the improvement in the economy. But the question remains, is it in the nation's interest?" he added.
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Some key findings in the new report:
• The nation's immigrant or foreign-born population, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, grew by 4.1 million from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015 — 1.7 million in just the last year.
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Also from the Washington Examiner
By Paul Bedard
• 08/12/15 2:39 PM
• Growth in the last year was led by a rebound in the number of Mexican immigrants, which increased by 740,000 from 2014 to 2015 — accounting for 44 percent of the increase in the total immigrant population in the last year.
• The total Mexican immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 12.1 million in the second quarter of 2015 — the highest quarterly total ever.
• The Department of Homeland Security and other researchers have estimated that eight in 10 illegal immigrants are from Mexico and Latin America, so the increase in immigrants from these countries is an indication that illegal immigration has begun growing again.
Much of the new immigration is due to the explosion of green cards and the flood of younger Latin Americans leaving troubled situations back home.
Many companies, meanwhile are taking advantage of the immigrants and replacing higher paid Americans with cheaper immigrant labor, even in skilled jobs.
Polls, meanwhile, show that the public wants action to stop the surge of illegal immigrants, an issue picked up by some of the Republicans running for president such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
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Surge of Mexican Immigration Pushes Foreign-Born Population to 42.1 Million as Econom
Surge of Mexican Immigration Pushes Foreign-Born Population to 42.1 Million as Economy Stagnates
by Katie McHugh
13 Aug 2015
According to an analysis published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a surge of Mexican immigration has pushed the total number of foreign-born in the U.S. to 42.1 million in 2015’s second quarter.
Mexicans, who either broke into the country or were voluntarily imported by the government, number 12.1 million, the highest ever. They accounted for 44 percent of the total foreign-born population last year, with 740,000 coming to the U.S.
Illegal immigration is growing once again — CIS estimates eight in 10 illegals are from Mexico and Latin America. Currently, the 12.1 million Mexicans living in the U.S. send remittances totaling over $20 billion, annually, out of the American economy back to their home country. The U.S. ballooned its population with unnatural levels of immigration from 30.2 million to 42.1 million in only 14 and a half years — against nearly all Americans’ fervent wishes.
Most importantly, these massive waves of immigration are the result of current immigration policy. Like tax codes, setting immigration levels is a basic function of government. Americans have an unusual speech tic in which they use the words “legal” or “illegal” to soften rhetoric about immigration as an instinctive cringe. The truth is, as CIS notes, unless laws are passed to change current immigration policy, the U.S. will issue more green cards in the next ten years than the populations of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina combined. That’s ten million foreigners from countries with autocratic governments and socialist economies to compete with Americans for jobs in a struggling economy.
As Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) put it: “Immigration reform is probably the biggest issue of the 21st century. It will decide who is in charge of this country for the next 20 or 30 years.”
Current immigration policies also prop up the backward, impoverished, violent countries from which we import most of our foreigners. One-fifth of El Salvador currently lives in the U.S. and sends back remittances that contribute 16 percent of that country’s GDP as of 2013, for example. It also strangles economic growth, as Breitbart News previously reported: A record 93,626,000 Americans have stopped looking for work in an economy that created only one job for every two immigrants the Bush and Obama administrations let in from 2000 to 2014, and 36 percent of young workers under age 24 are never hired by employers, pushed out of the job market by older workers and H-1B visa holders.
CIS notes that while the national conservation on immigration centers on illegals, the much larger waves of foreigners imported as a matter of government policy is almost never discussed, even though it’s fundamentally transformed the country. As political elites of both parties and Big Business wanted.
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