Most immigrants in Georgia illegally, study finds

Washington — Most of the 953,000 immigrants living in Georgia are in the country illegally, according to an analysis for the Center for Immigration Studies released Thursday.

Basing its findings on U.S. Census Bureau data, the analysis said Georgia has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations of any state. It calculated that 53 percent of the state's foreign-born population — 504,000 people — are illegal immigrants. Only the estimates for Arizona, at 65 percent, and North Carolina, at 58 percent, were higher.

Overall, one in eight people living in the United States is an immigrant, the analysis found, for a total of 37.9 million people — the highest level since the 1920s. The nation's immigrant population — legal and illegal — reached a record of 37.9 million in 2007, it said.

The analysis was conducted by Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the center, which advocates reduced immigration.

Camarota has been active in the national immigration debate. Independent demographers disputed some of the survey's conclusions, but not Camarota's methods of data analysis.

"The immigrant population in Georgia is there because of the state's severe labor needs, including the poultry, agricultural and carpet industries," said Lisa Navarette, a spokesman for the National Council of La Raza, an advocacy group for Hispanic-Americans.

The analysis said half of the immigrants from Mexico and Central America are in the country illegally and one-third of those from South America are illegal immigrants. It also documented the surge of new arrivals and described its impact.

"The last seven years have been the highest period of immigration in American history," it concluded. "Immigrants and their young children [under 18] now account for one-fifth of the school-age population, one-fourth of those in poverty and nearly one-third of those without health insurance."

Camarota was criticized by some immigration scholars for failing to examine the progress immigrant families make the longer they remain and work in the United States.

"This is a one-eyed portrait," said Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California who has studied immigrants' use of public services. "It is a profile of immigrants' dependency without any profile of their contributions."

Myers said his research shows that within a decade, new immigrants in California moved up quickly to steadier jobs with more benefits, and the rates of uninsured immigrants dropped sharply.

And Wayne Cornelius, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied Mexican immigration for decades, called Camarota's conclusions about immigrants' use of public services "misleading."

The census data, Cornelius said, does not allow concise estimates of use of public services by illegal immigrants.

Cornelius said his field research in San Diego County had shown that illegal immigrants underused the health care system, given their health needs.

“Fly around the south of Florida and look at all the air pollution from ALL the cane fields being burned.”

Having logged over 500 hours in my Republic RC-3’s (never mind the hours in the other places), I feel I have probably seen as much of Florida as most people. Seeing should not always lead to bedlieving - most aprticularly when what is proposed for belief is essentially revisionist history.

Specifically, North America was subject to anthropogenic fire for at least 10,000 years. The Indigenous were diligent fire managers.

After that length of exposure to the fire management methods of the Indigenous, any plants unable to adapt to such management are gone. What is left is a fire adapted habitat.

The Everglades is perhaps the best adapted habitat to regular, anthropogenic fire.

The smoke may irritate enviro-socialists, but that is no reason to not burn the area.

As for Lake O becoming hyper-eutrophic, Joe - it always was. Indeed, it is often used as an example of what happens in a shallow lake where there is lots of sunlight and a long growing season.

Lakes pass through a number of well known stages. Lakes eventually become bogs, then meadows. Lake O is doing what it should be doing - becoming a bog, and then a meadow. A wet meadow, perhaps, but it will not remain a lake forever.

“Look at All the water back pumped into Lake O after it has collected pollutants from the cane and citrus fields.”

Meadow time, anyone?

“This and worse happens on tens of thousands of acres and the E.P.A. turns their back on it.”

Thank G*d for small favors, Joe. America does not need EPA, and even less does it need to allow them any more opportunities to grandstand at taxpayer expense.

If “the people” really are getting ‘the shaft’ it is because they voted in all those agencies. Remember the Declaration of Independence? It specifically objected to King George having “sent hither swarms of officers, to eat out our substance”.

I suggest that “the people” remember to read the three Founding Documents and then insist that their officials and bureaucrats make sure their actions are congruent with a strictly originalist perspective.

Anything they do which is not specifically allowed under the Constitution is, by definition, either extra-Constitutional or unConstitutional.

‘Da people’ done it to themselves, Joe.

FloriDUH voters have generally voted Democrap (really small ‘c’ communist) and they have no one to blame but themselves.

I remember 40 years ago when the glades were still a swamp.
The weather was much better regulated by the fact the water everywhere regulated the heat better.
The Army corp drained the swamp and now it is little different then Ohio.
You never used to see freezes as far south as say West Palm Beach.
You are correct in that the floriduh voters have had chances to curtail big sugar and were foolish enough to vote against reigning them in.
Govt.s all over this country have claimed domain over all, much of which was not granted under the constitution, as you say.
Also several planes from the airpark I live at plan to fly to Everglades city for lunch today.
I fly an RV6A.
One last thing, the army corp misdirected the river of grass and that in itself has created more problems then anyone imagined. Now they are slowly trying to repair their damage.
GOOD luck.

Joe,

If you read this before you land at Everglades City, check for an eagle nest in the tall Australian pines near the middle of the runway.

That nest was built there after ParcMan cut the Australian Pines at Lost man’s River and other places in ENP.

It seems the lure of easy Federal money (exotic species removal in this case) meant that they went from single species management to the single minded pursuit of funds.

BAAAD ParcMan!

Happy landings.

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