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Immigration Reforms Means A Sweeping Transformation Of U.S.

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By MARK STEYN

Most countries in the world have irrelevant numbers of "immigrants."

In the Americas, for example, only Canada, the United States and the British West Indies have significant non-native populations.

In Mexico, immigrants account for 0.6% of the population, and that generally negligible level prevails all the way down through Latin America until you hit a blip of 1.4% with Chile and 3.8% in Argentina.

There's an isolated exception in Belize, which, like the English Caribbean, has historical patterns of internal migration within the British Commonwealth — such as one sees, for example, in the number of New Zealand-born residents of Australia.

But profound sweeping demographic transformation through immigration is a phenomenon only of the western world in the modern era, and even there America leads the way.

Over 20% of all the immigrants on the planet are in the U.S. The country's foreign-born population has doubled in the last two decades to 40 million — officially.

Which is the equivalent of Washington taking a decision to admit every single living Canadian, and throwing in the population of New Zealand as a bonus. Thank goodness they didn't do that, eh? (Whoops.)

Otherwise, America would have been subject to some hideous, freakish cultural transformation in which there would be hockey franchises in Florida, and Canadian banks on every street corner in New York trumpeting their obnoxious jingoistic slogans ("TD: America's neighborhood bank"), and creepy little pop stars with weird foreign names like Justin and Carly Rae doing the jobs America's teen heartthrobs won't do.

What a vile alien nightmare that would be to wake up in.

Not so very long ago, its national mythology notwithstanding, the U.S. was little different from most other countries.

In 1970, its foreign-born population was 4.7%. And, while most of the West has embraced mass immigration in the last half-century, America differs significantly from those developed countries, like Canada and Australia, that favor skilled migrants.

Personally, I don't see what's so enlightened and progressive about denuding Third World nations of their best and brightest to be your doctors and nurses, but it does demonstrate a certain ruthless self-interest.

By contrast the majority of U.S. foreign-born residents now come from Latin America, and more than a quarter of them — 12 million — from Mexico. A policy of "family reunification" will by definition lead to low-skilled immigrants:

An engineer or computer scientist is less likely to bring in an unending string of relatives — because his dad's a millionaire businessman in Bangalore and his brother's a barrister in London, and they're both happy and prosperous where they are.

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No, we don't have hockey franchises, we have dogfighting and cockfighting where these poor helpless animals are forced to put on blades (the cocks) and bite and kill each other as they do in Mexico and other 3rd world countries. We have huge amounts of child molestation (very common in Mexico where girls are married off at the age of 12) and other atrocities by illegal aliens who have snuck into our country and not one has any respect for law (& are rewarded for breaking our laws by giving their illegal alien children automatic citizenship (mistake as this was not the intent of the XIV Amendment). We are told not to punish the children for the parents' crimes, but are we supposed to reward them for their parents' crimes with reduced tuition. For every single illegal alien's kid that takes a place in our colleges and universities, there is an American student who loses his or her education. How fair is that? The real victims in all of this are Americans & our children (& Americans are being forced to pay for illegals' "free" health care, their kids' "free" education, "free" Social Services they get (like Welfare, Food Stamps, and all kinds of scams they run on Americans such as $4 Billion they steal through the ETIN!)