True, there will be 70 million Americans of retirement age by 2030, twice the number today. However, the US population is at replacement levels in total fertility rate, i.e., 2.09 births per female. Our population is growing primarily due to immigration, legal and illegal.
Since 1970, the population of the US has increased by 100 million; since 1990; by 53 million; and since 2000 by 20 million or the equivalent of our six largest cities. The Bureau of the Census projects that we will have 364 million by 2030 [an increase of 63 million people in the next 23 years or the equivalent of the current populaton of the UK] and over 400 million by 2050 with one-quarter of the population being Hispanic. The annual arrival of 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with 750,000 annual births to immigrant women, is the determinate factor or three-fourths of all U.S. population growth. If this bill passes the annual legal immigrant admissions will triple to over 3 million a year for a decade. This will send the above projections soaring.
We need to reform our existing immigration laws and stop illegal immigration. Prior to 1965, the US was taking around 178,000 legal immigrants annually. In 1965, Congress replaced the national origins system with a preference system designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to the United States. With these changes and some subsequent ones, the result was that most of our legal immigrants now come from Asia and Latin America, and not Europe. Chain migration designed to unite families has also brought in aged parents, children, uncles, etc., many of whom are not contributing to our society and in fact, require more social services. Even with quotas in certain immigration categories, we are now legalizing the status of over one million people annually and millions more are waiting in lines overseas for their turn to come in. Chain migration has also changed the "mix" of immigrants, making it less diverse.
Mexico accounts for 31 percent of all immigrants, with 10.8 million immigrants living in United States, more than the number of immigrants from any other region of the world. Immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean account for the majority of immigrants, with 54 percent of the foreign‑born coming from these areas. Of those who arrived 2000 to 2005, 58 percent are from Latin America. This lack of diversity has hindered assimilation and could well result in the Balkanization of the country by language and culture.
The 35.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded -- two and a half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.
Between January 2000 and March 2005, 7.9 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country, making it the highest five-year period of immigration in American history.
Immigrants account for 12.1 percent of the total population, the highest percentage in eight decades. If current trends continue, within a decade it will surpass the high of 14.7 percent reached in 1910.
The bottom line is that the Reps want the bill for more cheap exploitable labor and the Dems want it for future voters to ensure that they become the permanent majority party. We are being sold down the river by the political elites while sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
“The bottom line is that the Reps want the bill for more cheap exploitable labor and the Dems want it for future voters to ensure that they become the permanent majority party. We are being sold down the river by the political elites while sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”
Thanks for the statistics, I had seen similar ones. Was this census info? Anyways, agreed with the above statement. I am trying to figure out if their are any other behind the scenes reasons to this madness but I guess it really boils down to power and greed.