Posted on 11/22/2004 10:07:13 PM PST by LouAvul
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 34 million U.S. residents were born outside the United States, with arrivals from Mexico driving much of the growth in the foreign-born population since 2000, a private research group says.
The foreign-born population grew at a clip of over 1 million a year between 2000 and 2004, even though the U.S. economy was suffering, according to the analysis being released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors stricter immigration policies.
That pace was roughly equal to the growth rate between 1996 and 2000, when the economy was on the upswing.
It is more evidence that stricter immigration enforcement after the Sept. 11 attacks did little to stop the influx of immigrants, said Steve Camarota, who wrote the report. Often the worst of economic conditions in America are still better than the financial situations in an immigrant's native country.
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Geez, I guess that sarcasm tags are needed. I was describing the attitude taken by the MSM and political class to keep the issue from being discussed. That 34 million are foreign born is absolutely wonderful, (then why not 50 milllion?) and to think anything otherwise is dismissed as as "racist". Get it?
It may feel like they are all in California, but this is happening in almost every state. In So. Oregon if you are not bilingual, you won't get most jobs. The property values have fallen in neighborhoods where the illegals have moved in.
Last week the Secty. of Defense had this to say:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/16/ldt.01.html
DOBBS: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is warning of the threat of terrorists entering this country through the same routes as those used by illegal aliens. Secretary Rumsfeld, traveling in South America, warned that enemies look for weaknesses and take advantage of them.
DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: The risk is that some of these human-smuggling routes into our country from this hemisphere could be used just as easily for terrorists.
DOBBS: And three million illegal aliens are estimated to be entering this country this year.
Secretary Rumsfeld also said the United States has to be, as he put it, smarter and quicker in securing our borders. The federal government's failure to secure those borders is leading individual states to take action. Arizona's Proposition 200, which limits state benefits for illegals, passed overwhelmingly two weeks ago. Now at least half a dozen other states are considering similar measures.
He's tried - but we won't let Him.
In Deuteronomy Ch 6, He warned His people if they strayed from seeking His righteousness, His anger would be kindled against them and He'd wipe them from the face of the earth (V 15).
Our society has, in part, accepted abortion. America's birthrate among US citizens currently isn't enough to sustain the current population, falling below the 2.66 children/household.
And we're still ignorantly blind. We're so ambivolent, we can't or won't enforce our laws for fear of "offending".
But God's judgements are true and just.
"I wonder what the tab to the American taxpayer is for these foreign borns? "
Here's a bit on that. It will be nothing compared to what it will cost when all the illegals start getting Social Security benefits, as requested by The Bush Administration.
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