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Immigration, legal and illegal, is destroying this country. We are bringing in too many people and not the kind of people with the skills we need to be competitive in the global economy. We may have already passed the tipping point.

The U.S. brings in about 1.2 million legal immigrants annually—more than the rest of the world combined. The decade ending in 2010 saw the highest level of immigration in our history with 13.9 million legal immigrants entering our country despite the fact that there was a net loss of jobs during that same period.

Our kinship system of immigration does not bring in the skills and talents we need to be competitive in the global economy. 25% of the adult legal immigrants who enter annually are high school dropouts. Only 25% have college degrees. Importing hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts annually is a net loss to the economy, i.e., taxes received versus government services provided.

The federal government issues work permits to 125,000 LEGAL FOREIGN WORKERS A MONTH now even though 23 million Americans are looking for fulltime employment. This includes new permanent residents (Green Cards) and long-term temporary work visas and others who are authorized to take a job. Also, Obama’s backdoor “Dream” amnesty will add 1 million legal workers to the workforce. The latest data show 22.1 million immigrants holding jobs in the U.S. with an estimated 8 million being illegal aliens. By increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000, immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men significantly. The reduction in earnings occurs regardless of whether the immigrants are legal or illegal, permanent or temporary. It is the presence of additional workers that reduces wages, not their legal status.

52 percent of households headed by a legal immigrant with children (under18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children. The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children. While government works to reduce the number of poor persons, massive low-skill immigration pushes the poverty numbers up. Milton Friedman said, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both.

The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million.

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by an additional 130 million to 440 million—three-quarters of the projected increase will be the result of immigration.

87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.

There is no avoiding the dramatic numerical and political implications of continuing the current legal immigration levels of more than one million per year. For the past 30 years, immigrants have voted at least two – to – one for the Democrats. Given the low income and low education profile of legal immigrants, this ratio is not likely to improve. To the contrary, it is likely to become worse. The inevitable result will be a permanent Democrat voting majority, first at the national level and soon thereafter at the state level. The Democrat leadership is fully aware of this and that is why we see the President illegally using executive orders to achieve what he has been unable to achieve through Congress. California is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to assessing the electoral impact of mass immigration.