Posted on 02/22/2005 9:54:11 AM PST by Willie Green
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- The foreign-born population in the United States numbered 34.2 million in 2004, accounting for 12 percent of the country's total population, figures released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday showed.
The number of foreign-born population was 2.3 percent higher than that in 2003.
Of the foreign-born population, 53 percent were born in Latin America, 25 percent in Asia, 14 percent in Europe and the remaining 8 percent in other regions of the world, such as Africa and Oceania.
Second-generation Americans, which are natives with one or both parents born in a foreign country, numbered 30.4 million in 2004, accounting for 11 percent of the total US population, according to the Census Bureau, which conducted the survey of 62,500 households in March 2004.
About 6 million immigrants arrived in the United States since 2000, 59 percent of them from Latin America and 23 percent from Asia. These immigrants are more educated than those who came in the late 1990s, according to Census Bureau data.
Beats me.
When I first started working on the border for INS (1998), the DMV had an officer at the port that would issue temp DL's and check insurance for Mexicans driving into the US. In late 1999, the DMV started to accept Mexican DL's but they still had to have proof of insurance at the border.
I'm a legal hispanic (married an american guy; but then divorced); I have a job and pay taxes; I'm getting a hard time to pay my mortgage and I am a active republican.
Some immigrants never ever assimilate.
Ping please.
The cultures were infinitely more similar and roughly at the same benchmark of "civilization".
You know why they come here. It's like the caste system in India.
What "hispanic" are you. Hispanic is not a race.
I know of no country in the world wherein the founding and predominate culture that founded the nation is asked to give up that position voluntarily out of altruism.
I'm not familiar with the Founder's comments on the notion that once we moved or killed all the Native Indians off the land that we would then allow those to the South (rejected by their Castillian overlords) to reconquest us.....and that we should be darned happy about it.
I don't want immigration in the numbers we have now legal or illehgal from anywhere regardless of culture or race or ethnicity although some like the Cubans for example are wonderful. I think we should also grant exceptions to Rhodesians and South Africans too since we insisted they hand over power in the first place. Other refugees as well who have sided with us from wherever (although I am leery of Muslims and do not see them assimilating...not that anyone ever totally assimilates)
Sadly, we've already taken nearly all of the best they had to offer.
I spent 16 years mostly abroad....nowhere would anyone have allowed Gringos to come in these numbers and then to have the gall to ask for preference.
I blame abortion and white guilt. A cancer of the will.
But that's not my fault nor responsibility and nor would any other nation on earth commit cultural suicide like we're asked to.
No one.
Limited immigration.
Let Mexico fix their own problems.
If a country being FUBAR is grounds to come here then we all better start moving and make room. USA will soon house 50% of the world at a minimum and land will go for the begging in Haiti.
There are those here who's objective is to overwhlem the gringo culture and demigraphics here. They resent us....it's that simple....that base.
www.capsweb.org/newsroom/media_resources/2003%20data_report.html
I think that that is a mite much.
So you can include me in your tirades. It brings back memories of the Rockefeller v. Goldwater days when the liberals and the liberals (Rockefeller Republicans, same difference) heaped invective upon the emerging modern conservative movement. The usual epithets -- you know: racist, bigot, hate monger stuff like that.
Modren conservatism survived and gave us Ronald Reagan. We'll do it again.
BTW, if you are going to rail against Californians for Population Stabilization (www.capsweb.org) please explain why they too are racists, bigots, hate mongers and other stuff like that. TIA.
Why the resentfulness? I don't get it. America is a great country.
What ever happened to immigration quotas? I remember when the Irish were held to a quota in the late 1970s. I believe there was a lottery of some sort that determined how many could come in from each nation.
Of course, that wouldn't cover the ones who enter illegally. I would guess that no one dared to try to enter the U.S. illegally in 1910, or at least not in the numbers that it's done today.
anyone who is not in favor of the de-gringo-izing and nay.....refuse to celebrate that is a racist, bigot or xenophobe....it's that simple.
course many but not all freepers who applaud this have their own dog in the hunt and resent folks like me (un gringo)
America with 33 million foreign born--- a land of flowery meadows and rainbow skies and rivers made of chocolate where the children dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.
If you think otherwise you are a racist xenophobe.
I would like to put in a good word for the Salvadoran Army, who are strong and heroic members of our OIF coalition.
I'd also like to put in a good word for soldiers from Central American countries who entered the U.S. legally, joined our armed forces, are currently deployed in our fight against jihad and are becoming citizens. There was a huge citizenship ceremony in Los Angeles just 2 weeks ago, where 2,500 people became citizens and among them were proud Marines born in Honduras and Mexico. NO MSM COVERAGE WHATSOEVER. None!
The point of my comment was not that Irish, Polish or Italians were of any greater value, but rather that they were considered the end of this nation in their day. One only need look at the commentaries of that time to realize much worse had been said about them then than anything I have seen here about hispanics. Yes, many others who had been here for generations contributed in WWII but so did immigrants. Just like many immigrants are contributing today in the military in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
I have my concerns with many issues surrounding the immigration process. The process of coming to the US legally borders on the ridiculous; Coming here illegally is too easy; Bi-lingual education is a disservice to the immigrants and delays their assimilation; and, we should better distinguish those who are coming here seeking freedom and the American dream as opposed to those who only want to make some money so they can go home in a few years, buy their "rancho" and live like a king.
The last part is really the one that bothers me when "immigrants" are all lumped together. The reality is many newly arriving immigrants better represent the ideals of this country than those that have been here for generations. I would rather sit down with dinner and discuss what freedom and liberty mean to someone newly arrived and has lived through communism and oppression and thinks this country stands for everything great in the world than a "John Kerry" type who hates everything this country stands for and would rather have us bowing to the "smart" UN bureaucrats. Allow in those "yearning to breathe free" immigrants and you can keep out the ones who have no intention of staying here or assimilating and only want to make some money.
Thank you for posting that reminder. Many thousands of non-citizens served in the US armed forces in Vietnam, including my humble self.
I was glad to do it, because it allowed me to become a citizen of this great country, go to school on the GI Bill, and pay $257,700 in federal, state and local taxes last year.
I remember reading a book when I was young called "We are all third generation Americans".
That means the origional migrants are still around as grandparents to the real American, who should now speak nothing but fluent English.
I don't see a lot of the current crop following this pattern.
Folks that want that are nuts."
Exactamundo...
And far too many "immigrants" are NOT all that into assimilating and being "American" either, as had previous generations of immigration.
And we won't even go into the public dole/welfare aspect since 1965.
Bravo to those who respect and honor U.S. laws and the American legacy of fighting for liberty.
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