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U.S. To Accept More New Immigrants On Green Cards Within Decade Than The Entire Combined Populations
Press Release from U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions ^
| August 3, 2015
| U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions
Posted on 08/06/2015 5:03:07 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael
This has been posted by news sites with links to their sites. I post this again this time with a direct link to the Senator; but most of all I reformatted the text with HTML to emphasize the startling facts equal to or more than what the colorful chart conveyed.
TOPICS: Reference
KEYWORDS: aliens; greencard; greencards; immigration; refugees; sessions; visa; welfare
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
My emphasis.
The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is
- the result of our visa policies.
- Each year, millions of visas are issued to
- temporary workers,
- foreign students,
- refugees,
- asylees, and
- permanent immigrants
- for admission into the United States.
- The lions share of these visas are for
- lesser-skilled and
- lower-paid workers and
- who,
- because they are here on work-authorized visas,
- are added directly to the same labor pool occupied by current unemployed jobseekers.
- Expressly because they are admitted into the U.S. on legal immigrant visas,
- most will be able to draw a wide range of taxpayer-funded benefits, and
- corporations will be allowed to directly substitute these workers for Americans.
- Improved border security would have no effect on the continued arrival of these
- new foreign workers,
- refugees, and
- permanent immigrants
because they are all invited here by the federal government.
The most significant of all immigration documents issued by the U.S. is, by far, the green card. When a foreign citizen is issued a green card it guarantees them the following benefits inside the United States:
- lifetime work authorization,
- access to federal welfare,
- access to Social Security and Medicare,
- the ability to obtain citizenship and voting privileges, and
- the immigration of
- their family members and
- elderly relatives
.
Under current federal policy, the U.S. issues green cards to approximately 1 million new Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) every single year. For instance,
- Department of Homeland Security statistics show that the U.S. issued 5.25 million green cards in the last five years,
- for an average of 1.05 million new legal permanent immigrant annually.
These ongoing visa issuances are
- the result of federal law, and
- their number can be adjusted at any time with a new federal law.
- However, unlike other autopilot policies
- such as tax rates or
- spending programs
- there is virtually no national discussion or
- media coverage over how many visas we issue,
- to whom we issue them and
- on what basis,
- or how the issuance of these visas to individuals living in foreign countries impacts the interests of people already living in this country.
If Congress does not pass a new federal law to reduce the number of green cards issued each year,
- the U.S. will legally add 10 million or more new permanent immigrants over the next 10 years
- a bloc of new permanent residents larger than populations of
- Iowa,
- New Hampshire, and
- South Carolina
- combined.
- All of these new permanent immigrants will be added on top of the current population of permanent immigrants in the United States.
This has substantial economic implications.
The post-World War II boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s
- averaged together less than 3 million green cards per decade
- or about 285,000 annually.
- Due to lower immigration rates,
- the total foreign-born population in the United States dropped from about
- 10.8 million in 1945 to
- 9.7 million in 1960 and
- 9.6 million in 1970.
These lower midcentury immigration levels were the product of a federal policy change:
- after the last period of large-scale immigration that had begun in roughly 1880,
- immigration rates were lowered to reduce admissions.
- The foreign-born share of the U.S. population fell for six consecutive decades,
- from 1910 through 1960.
Legislation enacted in 1965, among other factors,
- substantially increased low-skilled immigration.
- Since 1970,
- the foreign-born population in the United States
- has increased more than four-foldto a record 42.1 million today.
- The foreign-born share of the population has risen
- from fewer than 1 in 21 in 1970,
- to presently approaching 1 in 7.
- As the supply of available labor has increased,
- so too has downward pressure on wages.
- Georgetown and Hebrew University economics professor Eric Gould has observed that
- the last four decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the wage and employment structure in the United States
- The overall evidence suggests that the manufacturing and immigration trends have hollowed-out the overall demand for middle-skilled workers in all sectors,
- while increasing the supply of workers in lower skilled jobs.
- Both phenomena are producing downward pressure on the relative wages of workers at the low end of the income distribution.
During the low-immigration period from 1948-1973,
- real median compensation for U.S. workers increased more than 90 percent.
- By contrast, real average hourly wages were lower in 2014 than they were in 1973, four decades earlier.
- Harvard Economist George Borjas also documented the effects of high immigration rates on African-American workers, writing that
- a 10% immigration-induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that group by 2.5%.
- Past immigrants are additionally among those most economically impacted by
- the arrival of large numbers of new workers brought in to
- compete for the same jobs.
- In Los Angeles County, for example,
- 1 in 3 recent immigrants are living below the poverty line.
- And this federal policy of new large-scale admissions continues unaltered at a time when
- automation is reducing hiring, and
- when a record share of our own workers here in America are not employed.
President Coolidge articulated how a slowing of immigration would benefit both U.S.-born and immigrant-workers:
We want to keep wages and living conditions good for everyone who is now here or who may come here. As a nation, our first duty must be to those who are already our inhabitants, whether native or immigrants. To them we owe an especial and a weighty obligation.
It is worth observing that
- the 10 million grants of new permanent residency under current law
- is not an estimate of total new immigration over the next decade.
- In fact, the increased distribution of legal immigrant visas
- tend to correlate with increased flows of immigration illegally:
- the former helps provide networks and
- pull factors for the latter.
- Most of the countries who send the largest numbers of citizens with green cards are
- also the countries who send the most citizens illegally.
- The Census Bureau estimates
- 13 million new immigrants will arrive, on net,
- between now and 2024
- hurtling the U.S.
- past all recorded figures in terms of the foreign-born share of total population,
- quickly eclipsing the watermark recorded 105 years ago during the 18801920 immigration wave before
- immigration rates were lowered.
- Absent new legislation to lower green card allotments
- and the unprecedented level of future immigration,
- the Census Bureau projects immigration as a share of population will
- continue setting new records each year, for all time.
Yet the immigration reform considered by Congress most recently
- the 2013 Senate Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration bill
- would have tripled the number of green cards issued over the next 10 years.
- Instead of issuing [the usual] 10 million green cards,
- the Gang of Eight proposal would have
- issued at least 30 million green cards during the next decade
- (or more than 11 times the population of the City of Chicago).
Polling from
- Gallup and Fox shows that Americans want lawmakers to reduce, not increase, immigration rates by a stark 2:1 margin.
- Reuters puts it at nearly a 3:1 margin.
- And polling from GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway shows that
- by the huge margin of nearly 10:1
- people of all backgrounds are united in their belief that
- U.S. companies seeking workers should
- raise wages for those already living here
- instead of bringing in new labor from abroad.
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:07:53 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
This conspiracy at the highest levels of our government is positively surreal. They’re all guilty of treason.
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:22:30 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
(There is no more GOP. There is RAT, and RAT lite.)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Keep adding NYC’s worth of unassimilated foreigners, drown the US. Kill it.
The Uniparty must be destroyed.
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:28:22 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
The generic link http://www.sessions.senate.gov/ you provided just goes to the main page. Please provide a direct working link to the actual article.
Thanks.
To: WilliamofCarmichael
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:31:17 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
S AVE O UR S ITE
We cannot exist without you.
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:36:25 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:37:37 PM PDT
by
stevio
(God, guns, guts.)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are unemployed, losing their savings, and their homes.
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:38:12 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
To: Admin Moderator
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:38:29 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: RedMDer
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:38:50 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
To: stevio
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posted on
08/06/2015 5:39:14 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
To: WilliamofCarmichael
Americans aren’t having babies, so bringing more immigrants will offset that.
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posted on
08/06/2015 7:29:16 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
08/06/2015 7:31:15 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: RedMDer
"Meanwhile, millions of Americans are unemployed, losing their savings, and their homes."
You have to look back to all those decades of environmental misfits preaching zero population growth to protect the environment that led to a politically correct generation of Americans slaughtering their children for the benefit of society. Then as a reward for their sacrifice a misguided Kenya megalomaniac assumes control over the country and creates an even worse "population bomb" version of America than the original doomsayers warned of. Liberalism serves no other purpose than itself and eventually leads to slavery, genocide or both.
To: clearcarbon
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posted on
08/06/2015 7:48:11 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
This immigration crap is waaaay over the top. Legal and especially illegal.
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posted on
08/06/2015 7:48:25 PM PDT
by
stevio
(hAVE)
To: GailA
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posted on
08/06/2015 8:05:50 PM PDT
by
GailA
(If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
To: WilliamofCarmichael
The rest of the headline
“Entire Combined Populations Of Iowa, New Hampshire, And South Carolina
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posted on
08/06/2015 8:09:26 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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