Thread: PA: Hospital reflects census data

Posted on Tue, Jan. 1, 2008


Hospital reflects census data

Last year, more babies were born at Pa. Hospital - the city's leader in births - than in 2006.
By Michael Matza

Inquirer Staff Writer

Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital and Philadelphia's leader in births annually, knows from experience what the U.S. Census Bureau announced as the New Year rang in: America's population is expected to grow almost 1 percent in 2008, paced by more births than deaths and increased immigration - both legal and illegal - to the United States.
"Our numbers are tracking up," said Lee-Ann Landis, spokeswoman for the hospital, where 5,103 babies were born in 2006 and, as of yesterday, 5,190 in 2007.

In addition to serving more pregnant women who are born in the United States and naturalized citizens, "we are seeing more and more undocumented immigrants," she said.

Undocumented women are not entitled to government assistance to pay for prenatal care, said Landis, but the hospital does not turn away any woman who arrives in labor. Because many of the undocumented mothers-to-be have not had reliable prenatal check-ups, their deliveries can be more complicated and costly, Landis said.

The hospital never has fewer than six births a day; one day last week, 25 babies were born at the hospital, she said.

The Census Bureau, based on projections that do not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration, pegged today's U.S. population at 303 million - up 2.8 million, or about 0.9 percent, from New Year's Day 2007.

"In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds," the bureau said in a release.

"Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds."

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And that doesn't include illegal immigration, which overpowers in-country births (including anchor babies of illegal aliens) less deaths.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/...on/011108.html

Originally Posted by U.S. Census Bureau

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2007.

In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.

Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.

To: Mr. Robert Bernstein,

To state your stats in persons per minute,

7.5 births / minute

5.5 deaths / minute

2 net migrations / minute.

That is, the rate of immigration is as much as the rate of births less deaths.

Except that the 2 net migrations / minute only counts the 1.2 million legal immigrants who enter the U.S. each year, less repatriations elsewhere. It doesn't even mention the 5.6 million* or however many illegal aliens who enter the U.S. each year, less the majority of them who return south of the border for the winter.
* (extrapolated from the statistics of the 2004 Arizona Border Control Initiative, in which UAV's counted 698,200 illegal entrants not apprehended in 90 days in just one of the nine southern sectors.)

What your statistics do not explicitly tell the mathematically challenged public is that
the net population growth of American residents
only matches that of net legal immigrations, and
it may only match that of net illegal aliens as well.

As Yogi Berra might say, "Half of new people here are legal immigrants, and another half are illegal aliens,
and that doesn't count those who are born here."

And if you believe that the U.S. Census Bureau's 303,146,284 total accurately estimates the number of illegal aliens within the U.S., I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.

America is ceasing to be America. America is being overrun by an invasion of illegal aliens, who are here in a criminal act against the immigration laws of the United States. Perhaps a third of the new population in the U.S. are criminals from their first step on U.S. soil.

American citizens need to know.