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Posted: Saturday, 09 December 2006 11:13AM

Experts Say U.S. Not Ready for Booming Immigrant Population



SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS) -- The Unites States is failing to comprehend the severe impact of a mushrooming immigrant population, according to an immigration expert who spoke at a San Jose symposium this week.

"Right now in the United States we estimate there are approximately 70 million people who are either immigrants or U.S. born children of immigrants. We're reaching almost 40 million foreign born and another 30 or so miilion U.S. born children of at least one foreign born parent. That's almost a quarter of the national population," said Ruben Rumbaut, a UC Irvine sociology professor.

Rumba was one of the keynote speakers at the immigration meeting, and stressed the fact that the proposed fence on the Mexico – United States border won’t solve anything.