Immigrants Swell Numbers Near New York, 60% of the population

NYT ^ | August 15, 2006 | SAM ROBERTS

[VU4G10]

Immigrants have continued to surge into metropolitan New York since 2000, according to census figures released today, and that increase, combined with high birth rates, has elevated the foreign-born and their children in New York City itself to fully 60 percent of the population...

[taxed2death]

Illegals?


WOT?


hahahahahahahah

[Calpernia]

I would say this is the accurate percentage for the outer areas of NYC also.

[SmoothTalker]

Another reason to avoid that overcrowded place.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

No surprise here, just walk down any midtown street, everyone either has an accent or is speaking a foreign language.

[coconutt2000]

No surprise here, just walk down any midtown street, everyone either has an accent or is speaking a foreign language.

I just thought that was because NYC's education system was horrific.

[Calpernia]

Previous stats:

Impact from illegal alien labor:

- Costing health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement, accruing at $30 billion per year.

- USA is foregoing $35 billion a year in income tax collections because of the number of jobs that are now off the books.

- Census Bureau estimates that 8.7 million people are illegally residing in the USA

- Urban Institute estimates a total of 9.3 million are illegally residing in the USA

- Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a total of 9.2 million are illegally residing in the USA

- The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) stated that the Bureau of Labor could have missed as many as 10% of illegal aliens, since illegal aliens avoid census questionnaires. The CIS suggests the total illegal population is at 10 million or higher (March 2004).

- Employers have incentive to hire undocumented workers off the books.

- Overseas labor markets have forced US employers to find innovative ways to capitalize on sources of cheaper labor to stay competitive.

- Employers place pressure on the government to ignore the flood of cheap labor.

- Services, ie but not limited to: public school enrollment, language proficiency programs, and building permits, that cater to illegal aliens have increased in areas that are considered gateways for immigration.

- The top nine states that account for 50% of illegal aliens are: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.

- Sole authority to govern immigration flow is placed on the federal government.

- Responsibility for providing support to legal and illegal immigrants rests with the state and local governments.

- Immigrants send home on average $1,400 to $1,500 per year through money transfers (also called Remittances).

- As per the World Bank in 2002, people sent $133 billion worldwide. Developing countries accounted for $88 billion of that.

- Remittances from the United States to Mexico have tripled to $13 billion between 1995 and 2003.

- As per the Pew Hispanic Center, 39% of surveyed Latino immigrants listed themselves as having legal status to opening bank accounts. This enables cash transfers through private money centers such as Western Union and Money Gram.

- HOWEVER, banks including Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank began accepting matriculas, which are photographed identity cards for Mexicans living in the US.

- Matriculas are obtainable by any legal or illegal Mexican. Matriculas are widely obtainable through Mexican consulates across the USA.

- To date, around 2.5 million matriculas have been issued, and the number is growing.

- In major illegal alien gateway cities, the influx of immigrants has led to a housing boom unexplained by official population growth.

- In New Jersey, the three gateway towns are New Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark.

- Housing permits in these three towns shot up over six-fold, while the rest of the three counties only saw a three-fold increase.

- 80% of these permits were designated for multiple tenent dwellings.

- Official statistics state that illegal aliens in New Jersey have jumped 110% – an estimate that is inconsistent with the housing statistics. Local realtors' stats for multiple tenent housing and school enrollments suggest the number is higher.

- The major illegal alien gateway cities have experienced school enrollments much higher than projections.

- The decrease in the number of births in the past decade had led education administrators to expect decreasing school enrollments as a post echo boom trend.

- A higher immigration rate, however, has offset the impact of declining births.

- Enrollment stats for major illegal alien gateway city school districts that included: Queens, New York; Elizabeth, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Wake County in North Carolina revealed explosive growth in immigrant students, far beyond numbers consistent with *legal* migration limits.

- NYC public school system is the largest in the nation, enrollment of 1.1 million students.

- Immigrant student enrollment for 1998-2001 was 103,000, with Queens accounting for the largest share, 37,000.

- Between 1990 and 2001, more than half of New York City’s school districts increased their enrollments 10% or more, driven by a high number of immigrant students.

- New York City Public Schools, 1999 to 2001: 102,867 immigrant students: Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Ecuador, Colombia and Haiti.

[From One - Many]

After the next attack, we can all bow down again at the alter of PC for a chop on the backs of our necks.
Laws mean nothing to illegals.

[freeangel]

Ain't anchor babies great?

[Wallace T.]

How do these statistics compare with New York of a century ago, when huge numbers of Italian and Eastern European (mostly Jewish) immigrants arrived? Additionally, a huge portion of the native born population would have been Irish and German-Americans whose immigration wave peaked in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1905, there were still large numbers of New Yorkers who had been born in Ireland and Germany, By that time, the descendants of the Dutch and English settlers of the colonial era had been reduced to a small minority of the population, although they still formed most of the business and cultural elite.

There is some historical irony in that the descendants of the Italian and Eastern European immigrants have been numerically overwhelmed, much as the Anglo-Dutch had been a century earlier. However, the absence of a welfare state, the greater strength of family and religious institutions, and English only public and private education facilitated the Americanization of the immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

[BIGZ]

How do these statistics compare with New York of a century ago, when huge numbers of Italian and Eastern European (mostly Jewish) immigrants arrived?

These immigrants were legal.

[308MBR]

And all this time I thought the best reason was the entire southeastern corner of the state smelled like diesel exhaust and rotting garbage. That specifically includes Manhattan.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1683951/posts
White Children Now In Minority(Florida)

[Wallace T.]

You are correct in that the immigrants of the 1880-1920 era were legal. However, the United States had essentially an open borders policy for anyone other than East Asians in that era. There were health screenings that did force unhealthy would be immigrants into quarantine or onto a return ship. (I recall the scene in Godfather II where a young Vito Corleone was placed into quarantine upon his arrival on Ellis Island.)

We have numerous immigration laws and regulations on the books that are poorly enforced, if at all. In effect, America once again has open borders, restrained only by the ability of would be immigrants to pay for travel. At least in the "Ellis Island" era, effective measures were taken to limit the spread of communicable diseases.

If we have immigration laws, they need to be enforced. But the Bush Administration and its predecessors have not fulfilled their duties in this area.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Uh, yeah : )

[BIGZ]

I agree.

[Clemenza]

Most of the Chinese, Colombian, Pakistani, Haitian and even many (if not most) of the Dominicans in NYC are here legally.

[Clemenza]

We also had OPEN immigration from Mexico in the late 19th/Early 20th century. The Border Patrol was originally formed to keep East Asians from entering the country via Mexico (as was common after the passage of immigration restrictions).

[Wallace T.]

As are all the Puerto Ricans, who are, of course, U.S. citizens, as well as most of the Cubans. The same is probably true of the native Africans and East and South Asians as well. Mexicans and Central Americans are the main source of illegals in the New York area as well as in the rest of the country. The rural Northeast and southern Appalachia now have substantial Mexican-American population who are working in agriculture and other industries.

[The Mayor]

http://albanysinsanity.com/

Your stuff is the 1st and 3rd articles in my blog..
This is insane.