Fruits of the unholy alliance between capitalist greed and cultural-Marxist revolutionaries
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The Center for Immigration Studies has issued a new report on the size, growth, and characteristics of America’s foreign-born population. The report, based on the Census Bureau’s March 2007 Current Population Survey, is a sobering read and a timely addendum to my “Half a Billion Americans?” article posted last August. The immigrant population—legal and illegal—was just under 40 million in 2007, or one-eighth of all U.S. residents; one-third of them are here illegally. The report establishes that, since 2000, more than ten million immigrants have settled in the United States, which the highest seven-year period of immigration in this country’s history. More than half of post-2000 arrivals (5.6 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.
The educational level of adult immigrants is abysmally low: almost a third of them (31 percent) have not completed high school, compared to 8 percent of Americans. They are disproportionally reliant on public largesse: one-third (33 percent) of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program, compared to just 19 percent for American households. Among households headed by immigrants from Mexico—the largest single group—51 percent use at least one welfare program. The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children under the age of 18 is 17 percent, almost 50 percent higher than the rate for Americans and their children.More than a third (34 percent) of recent immigrants have no health insurance, compared to 13 percent of Americans. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the overall number of uninsured since 1989. The main reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use is their low education levels rather than their legal status or an unwillingness to work. And if you think that one “benefit” of immigration is to lower the median age of the native population—as some immigration enthusiasts still assert—think again: recent immigration has had no significant impact on the nation’s age structure. Even without more than ten million immigrants who came to America since 2000, the average age in this country would be virtually unchanged at 36.5 years.
The CIS study presents us with the fruits of the unholy alliance between capitalist greed and cultural-Marxist revolutionaries.
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