It is time for an honest discussion of immigration.
The first “great wave” of U.S. immigration took place from
roughly 1880 to 1930. During this time, according to the Census Bureau, the foreign-born population doubled from about 6.7 million
to 14.2 million people. Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce
admissions, decreasing the foreign-born population until it fell to about 9.6
million by 1970. Meanwhile, during this low-immigration period, real median
compensation for U.S. workers surged, increasing more than 90 percent from 1948
to 1973, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
In the 1960s, Congress lifted immigration caps and ushered
in a “second great wave.” The foreign-born population more than quadrupled, to
more than 40 million today.
This ongoing wave coincides with a period of middle-class
contraction. The Pew Research Center reports: “The share of adults who live in middle-income households
has eroded over time, from 61% in 1970 to 51% in 2013.” Harvard economist George Borjas
has estimated that high immigration from 1980 to 2000 reduced the wages of
lower-skilled U.S. workers by 7.4 percent — a stunning drop — with particularly
painful reductions for African American workers. Weekly earnings today are lower than they were in 1973.
Yet each year, the United States adds another million mostly
low-wage permanent legal immigrants who can work, draw benefits and become
voting citizens. Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage
immigration into the United States. In other words, as a matter of federal
policy — which can be adjusted at any time — millions of low-wage foreign
workers are legally made available to substitute for higher-paid Americans.
This federal policy continues at a time when robotics and
computerization are slashing demand for workers. One Oxford University professor estimates that as many as half of all jobs will be automated in
20 years. We don’t have enough jobs for our lower-skilled workers now. What
sense does it make to bring in millions more?
If no immigration curbs are enacted, the Census Bureau estimates that another 14 million immigrants will come to the United
States between now and 2025. That means we will introduce a new population
almost four times larger than that of Los Angeles in just 10 years time.
The percentage of the country that is foreign-born is on
track to rapidly eclipse any previous historical peak and to continue rising.
Imagine the pressure this will put on wages, as well as schools, hospitals and
many other community resources.
It is not mainstream, but extreme, to continue surging
immigration beyond any
historical precedent and to do so at a time when almost 1 in 4 Americans
age 25 to 54 does not have a job. What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that
wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can
knit us all more closely together.
But high immigration rates help the financial elite (and the
political elite who receive their contributions) by keeping wages down and
profits up. For them, what’s not to like? That is why they have tried to
enforce silence in the face of public desire for immigration reductions. They
have sought to intimidate good and decent Americans into avoiding honest
discussion of how uncontrolled immigration impacts their lives.
But that dam is breaking. The elite consensus is crumbling —
and the enforced silence on this critical issue will end.
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In the 1960s, some egg-head professors
predicted that foreign-born immigrants would become the majority as we took our
national population from 200 million to over 350 million. We all read it and we thought something was
wrong with doing this. As the decades
rolled by it got worse. Who would have thought these egg-headed professors had
their own hands on the throttle ? Who
would have thought that Congress would allow this to happen ?
When the Republican Congress and Whitehouse
refused to close the Mexican border, we got a clue. They are all Demo-publicans and they are in
this together.
I’ve been writing about excessive immigration
for decades and as far as I know, I was the only one writing about this. I found Numbers USA and was encouraged that others
were aware of the damage excessive immigration could do. We saw Europe load up on immigrants and
witnessed their decline. Then Jeff Sessions started writing about it and more
are joining in. Our immigration policies
have caused joblessness for 93 million working-age American citizens. Now, we are inviting a government-subsidized
take-over of the US by refugees on welfare.
Milton Friedman warned us that ‘We could have
open borders or a welfare state, but not both. How long can Congress ignore the
obvious before they act to stop immigration.
Marxists create victim groups and use them to
demand outrageous concessions in order to weaken and ultimately destroy our
country. The media promotes this and
politicians succumb and allow the Marxists to rip up our Constitution and allow
us to be taken over in a foreign invasion we are paying for with our taxes. Government
passes laws that enforce our compliance with this treason.
We need to close down immigration and hang a
sign on the Statue of Liberty that reads: “Closed for Repairs”.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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