Thread: Record 51 Million Legal/Illegal Immigrants Expected In Next Eight Years

These statistics will likely have an impact on the 2016 Republican presidential primary.

Randy DeSoto April 23, 2015 at 3:14pm

The Census Bureau estimates that a record 51 million legal and illegal immigrants are expected to reside in the United States by 2023. By that time, immigrants will account for more than one in seven members of the nation’s population.

Driven mostly by legal immigration, the Bureau predicts the immigrant population will increase to one in five by 2060, totaling 78 million people. The U.S. population is expected to reach 417 million by then, an increase of 108 million from 2010.

“These numbers have important implications for workers, schools, infrastructure, congestion and the environment,” said Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies. “They also may have implications for our ability to successfully assimilate and integrate immigrants. Yet there has been almost no national debate about bringing in so many people legally each year, which is the primary factor driving these numbers.”



These statistics will likely have an impact on the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Candidates like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are seen as moderates on the immigration issue, having supported changes to immigration law in the past that would encourage greater legal immigration and grant resident status to illegal immigrants already in the country. Others like Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have stood for stricter enforcement of the nation’s current immigration laws before considering any reforms.

Walker added to the debate this week, arguing that U.S. immigration policy should also take into account the impact of legal immigration on American workers:

"Well the one thing they’re not saying is we need to make sure as part of that any future legal immigration system that goes forward has to account for American citizens and the workers of this country and their wages to make sure that even with legal immigration in this country we respond to it in a way that doesn’t take jobs away from hardworking Americans."

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, shared this concern in a letter to the New York Times published last week:

"In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 United States residents were born abroad. Five years from today, the Census Bureau estimates that more than one in seven United States residents will have been born abroad. Eight years from today, the share of the population that is foreign-born will rise above any level ever before recorded and keep surging.

It defies reason to argue that the record admission of new foreign workers has no negative effect on the wages of American workers, including the wages of past immigrants hoping to climb into the middle class. Why would many of the largest business groups in the United States spend millions lobbying for the admission of more foreign workers if such policies did not cut labor costs?"

A Reuters poll conducted last summer found 45 percent of Americans want to see the number of legal immigrants reduced, while 38 percent believe the current number was appropriate; and 17 percent thought the numbers should be increased.

On average, 800,000 people immigrate to the United States annually. The Department of Homeland Security estimates there are 11.4 million people in the United States illegally, making up about one-fourth of the total foreign-born population. The United States has issued on average about 1.1 million “Green Cards” in recent years (for new legal permanent residents).

http://www.westernjournalism.com/rec...t-eight-years/

"In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 United States residents were born abroad. ...."

And in the 1970's, with rare exceptions, everyone could go to college who wanted to, everyone could find a good job who needed or wanted one, and everyone could live on their earnings if they had a full-time job. In the 1970's, we desegregated the schools, worked on civil rights, and women started having a real chance at equality in law and the work force. These were solid, secure and optimistic times for Americans with everything that mattered moving in the right direction, despite a War in Vietnam, an Energy Crisis and Watergate. In spite of all this, our people were still full of hope and energy, could see clear paths for their own futures and were striving to end the war, solve the energy dilemma and yes, even protect our environment, while pursuing civil rights and equal rights for our citizens.

Then came massive immigration and free trade treason and look what you moronic traitors have done to our nation. We're in a shambles, a wreck, a declining nation that's overwhelmed and bankrupt by what you have done. And yes, that's every member of Congress who ever voted for 1 million green cards a year and/or approved one of these treasonous trade agreements.

And you still don't get the fact that there aren't just 11.4 million illegal aliens in the United States, there's that many in California, there are 20 million or more (lots more).

Every American needs to remember this at all times, you can't believe one statistic from the US government, not on unemployment, spending, immigration, illegal aliens, trade, or anything else. Every American needs to carry a pencil, a pad, and a calculator, and use their brains to discern by simple 8th grade math, the lies, the deceptions, the tricks, plots and schemes of this government.

Where are those 300 republican bills that Boehner said would be resurrected that he said was in Reid's drawer last December ?. How many of those would cut legal and illegal immigration? Why is McConnell voting for people he promised that their nomination would not see light of day? Has Boehner figured out that McConnell is taking care of Reid rather than Boehner? Or has Boehner joined the crowd, too, since he seems to not be able to defeat? There is something amiss about all this, promises are not being talked about let alone being kept. Two parts of one party in Washington is not working for middle America.

Anyone who trusts that anyone or any party in the U.S. Congress is looking out for them has been keeping company with Rip Van Winkle.

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

Anyone who trusts that anyone or any party in the U.S. Congress is looking out for them has been keeping company with Rip Van Winkle.

'Bamacrats want more immigration, because a large majority of new arrivals will vote Democrat. The Repub leadership wants more immigration, to give their big-money donors the additional surplus labor that those donors covet.

Boehner and other Repub leaders will huff and puff, but in truth they are using 'Bama as cover to hide their true intentions. Then they get on the phone and tell their big-money donors that all is well.
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