Thread: The Five Billion

This article from American Patrol website gives the following headline:

The Overwhelming of America
Bush Plan will Make Our Nation Unlivable

and this map:




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July 10, 2005
The Five Billion
By Steve Sailer

The Bush Administration officials announced in January 2004 that the President's guest worker plan will allow anyone in the world with a minimum wage job offer from an American employer to move here, and bring along dependents. Contemplating this, it struck me (among other things) that our leaders must be clueless about how many people actually want to move to the U.S...

In fact, we have several pieces of evidence about what such an open borders plan might bring.

The State Department's bizarre Diversity Visa Lottery hands out green cards to 50,000 random individuals per year. Few Americans have heard of it, yet it is of such avid interest around the world that anti-government riots raged in the impoverished African country of Sierra Leone in 1997 when 5,000 lottery applications mailed by locals were found floating in the Freetown harbor.

The Diversity Visa Lottery gets up to ten million applications per year. And those are just from foreigners outside the 15 countries, such as Mexico, China, and India, that send the most immigrants to America and hence don’t qualify for the Diversity Visa.

This suggests that, across the world, scores of millions would like to immigrate to America right now.

What about in the long run? We have two informative examples:

The U.S. maintains an open border with its territory of Puerto Rico. One-fourth of all Puerto Ricans live on the U.S. mainland, according to Harvard economist George Borjas, and that proportion is kept down only by paying generous benefits to Puerto Ricans who stay home.

There are currently 106 million people in Mexico and approximately 25 million people of Mexican descent in the United States. In other words, just under 1/5th of all Mexicans in the world now live in America. And they got here without an official open borders plan.
So what does that imply?

There are currently over six billion people who live neither in America nor Mexico. So, if one-fourth of the rest wanted to move to America, as happened with Puerto Ricans, that would be 1.5 additional billion people, compared to the current American population of 296 million.

If only one-sixth wished to immigrate, that would be a mere one billion people.

But, surely, Puerto Rico and Mexico are special casesâ€â€

Our first responsibility to to maintain our OWN standard of living and provide for our OWN citizens. Why is it that so few people seem to understand this?

If this ever happens in my lifetime I'm leaving.