The US
offshored its middle class manufacturing jobs in the 1990s while increasing
welfare immigration by 44 million.
Survey results released
by the U.S. Census Bureau show the population of the United States contains the
highest percentage of foreign-born non-citizens in over a century.
According to the American Community
Survey, over 22 million
non-citizens are living in America today. The figure represents 13.7 percent of
America’s total population — the highest since 1910. In total, roughly 44
million foreign-born nationals are living in the United States today — half of
which have become citizens.
The survey results were
published amidst a continuing debate in the United States over whether or not
to ask U.S. Census takers to report their citizenship status. President Donald
Trump and his Republican supporters have been adamant in including the
question, while Democrats and progressive activists claim the inclusion would
discourage non-citizens from filling out the form.
This increase in
non-citizens as a proportion of America’s population is substantial. According
to Bloomberg, roughly one in 20 U.S. residents were foreign-born in 1960 and
1970. Now, that figure is closer to one in seven. In America’s most populous
states — namely California, Texas, Florida, and New York — a whopping 15
percent of the population is foreign-born.
The survey results lend
credence to the idea that “the face” of America is changing. However,
additional research released on the same day suggests that immigration into the
United States is actually shrinking.
The New York Times
reports that the
United States received far fewer immigrants in 2018 than it has in the years
before. Citing numbers included in the same report mentioned above, the Times
notes that the number of immigrants coming into the country dropped to around
200,000 during that year — a 70 percent drop from 2017. Researchers quoted by
the Times say this could have adverse affects on America’s economy, and are
blaming the Trump Administration’s hawkish stance on immigration.
“This is something that
really hasn’t happened since the Great Recession,” Cato Institute immigration
expert David Bier told the paper. “This should be very concerning to the
administration that its policies are scaring people away.”
At face value, these
reports seem to clash with each other — how can immigration be at a periodic
low, while the number of non-citizens living in America is at an all-time high
— even as a percentage of the total population?
The likely scenario here
is that, while fewer immigrants are coming into the country, more are staying
without taking the steps to become citizens. This is a concern all on its own —
suggesting that migrants are no longer coming to America to become part of it —
but to instead simply benefit from it.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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