Via Progressives for Immigration Reform
A new report that drew from Census Bureau and Department of Homeland Security data found that in 2016’s first six months, 1.03 million legal and illegal immigrants arrived in the United States. The Washington, D.C.-based, nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) extrapolated the 1.03 million and concluded that newly settled immigrants for all of 2016 will match the 1999 record of 1.8 million, and exceed by 53 percent the 1.1 million total in 2011, a period of lower immigration due to recession.
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The extraordinary 1.8 million arrivals include legal permanent residents, unaccompanied Central American minors and other asylum seekers, refugees, students, illegal immigrants and employment-based guest worker visa holders, such as H-1B tech employees. The surge of new immigrants will further strain the overpopulated nation’s already failing public schools, its crowded hospitals, inadequate public transportation systems and overburdened social service providers
But because of chain migration, the original 1.8 million immigrants will dramatically increase by many millions more. The author of the CIS report, Dr. Steven Camarota, said that family-based chain migration’s multiplier effect has contributed to nearly 14 million immigrants settling in the U.S. between 2006 and 2016.
Here’s how chain migration works. The federal government approves the admission of a foreign citizen to migrate with the assumption that the new arrival will contribute to the national interest. The original immigrant, a lawful permanent resident, can petition for his nuclear family, wife and minor children.
Then the chain begins, and it’s literally endless as non-nuclear members follow the original immigrant once that person becomes naturalized. Citizens can petition – without consideration for their ages or skills – their parents and adult sons and daughters, along with their spouses and children. Immigration scholars estimate that each recent immigrant eventually sponsors an average 3.45 family members. Chain migration is the leading driver behind a population surge that has seen legal immigration quadruple from the 250,000 annual total in the 1950s to more than a million since the 1990s.
President Trump has become increasingly adamant that any deal he may be willing to make with Democratic leadership to protect deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACAs) will have to end what he labeled in a tweet as “horrible” chain migration.
The dangers of chain migration extend beyond further burdening public schools system, health care providers and depleted municipal coffers. Criminals can easily exploit chain migration. According to multiple media reports, chain migration allowed the entry of a growing number of extended family members currently implicated in three attacks that targeted the U.S. The failed December New York City subway attacker entered through a distant relative’s sponsorship. The Egyptian who shot at Pennsylvania police came on a family-based visa, as did the Pakistani national jailed for money laundering and bank fraud to aid the Islamic State.
Moreover, family-based migration harms American workers. Each year more than a quarter of a million lifetime work permits, without a national interest purpose, are issued to chain migrants. That means that 250,000 work-authorized immigrants enter the labor pool annually, and remain year after year to compete with, or possibly displace, Americans in an increasingly tight labor market.
Immigration should serve Americans, not work against them, as chain migration does.
I wonder what overall percentage of those illegal, lottery lucky legals and their chains of relatives. and assorted other migrants end up actually working and competing with Americans for decent jobs?
I suspect it isn’t all that high, welfare seeming to be a preferred way of making their living, but I really don’t know the actual percentages or even if such statistics are available.
The liberal line is that America NEEDS these immigrants, every single fabulous one of them. They HELP our country. It’s not true that they compete with unskilled Americans for low-paying jobs, not at all. Americans refuse to do those jobs anyway.
Whoever devised this scheme to destroy the essential USA has stable genius only exceeded by Donald Trump.
Send them all back……..consider what a bonus they will be to their home nations…..
The giant SS and medicare ponzi schemes require population growth to continue. What happens when the population growth stops? Ruh-oh.
Interestingly, the unemployment rate for foreign born men is lower than for native born while a bit higher for women. Participation rates for foreign born men are a staggeringly high 78%! That is 10% higher than for native born. So they are obviously inclined to work. For women, the rate is a few percentage points below that of native born women.
Salaries for foreign born are around $150 a week less on average.
So, are the immigrants taking jobs that native borns would take, but at lower rates? Or are they filling jobs that native borns will not take?
The high participation rate came as a surprise to me. I am pretty happy to see immigrants come in that are willing to work. They tend to add to the country in time.
Intend to fall into the camp that the immigrants take a lot of work that US born workers will not – farm hands, slaughterhouses, etc. Studies show, generally, that skilled immigrants get paid the same wages as the skilled native born workers, and not less.
They don’t come here to work, Llpoh. I live at ground zero for this f****** scheme. They don’t add to Social Security and Medicare, they subtract, and in a big way. That’s just a sales job. A native born black has to win a lottery to get Section 8. One coming from overseas gets it instantly. Boom, there’s $3,000 a month somebody’s getting paid for by Uncle sugar. These people don’t speak English. They can’t work. They don’t work. Jim’s griping about labor statistics being false in his article, trust me these statistics are far worse.
Star – I appreciate your anecdotes, but it flies in the face of stats and scholarly studies. I was personally involved in one such long ago, and it had the same results as currently reported. I know, stats and their motives must be questioned. But anecdotes are no more reliable.
What part of what I’m telling you is anecdotal? You can’t speak English or at least Spanish, you’re not getting a job. The fact that these people get Section 8 as soon as they get here is a fact, not an anecdote. All the big boxes and fast foods hire their kids, because they pay them much less than minimum wage. Look up work opportunity tax credit. They build huge apartment complexes here surrounding a Walmart, and fill it with these third worlders. The rents are more than New York City. And then charge up the EBT, and send them to Walmart. Jim was telling me a couple years ago that they didn’t have that many Walmarts under construction, and the number he had, didn’t even cover the ones in Broward County. This s***’s totally out of control. When you run a consumer-based economy, where that consumer gets the money from is of no interest to Corporate America. They will give them the money out of your taxes and they do, trust me. You can take a tribesman from anywhere on the dark continent, bring him here, and give him more spending money then young professional couple, and he will spend it. Every penny. That’s his use to big business, not employability or contributing to social programs. He’s no longer a tribesman, he’s a consumer
“chain migration” is nothing new. Many Ellis Island immigrants were single males, often the dad or oldest son. When they found a job, a place, and saved some money they would send for the rest of the famiy.
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“That means that 250,000 work-authorized immigrants enter the labor pool annually, and remain year after year to compete with, or possibly displace, Americans in an increasingly tight labor market.”
US immigration policies have always been about driving down the cost of labor (by increasing the supply of labor). Our current crop of politicians will blather on about immigration, but they will not do anything so long as their deep pocket donors are benefiting from the cheap labor.