The United States in known as a land of immigrants.
Almost everyone who lives in the U.S. today is a product of immigration.
It has been referred to as a melting pot due to its diversity.
Over the years there have been many large waves of immigration to the United States from around the world.
The early years of the United States saw a significant number who immigrated from England, Scotland and Wales.
Nearly 70% of the nation's population in 1790 could be traced to immigrants from just those three countries.
The Irish potato famine in the 1840's brought a wave of immigrants from Ireland.
Shortly after, German immigrants joined the Irish in coming to America as well as Chinese workers who came to the country to help build the railroads going west before the Civil War.
Between 1861 and 1890, 10.4 million immigrants came to the United States, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Poland etc) to support the emerging industrialization of the country.
Ellis Island in New York Harbor officially opened in 1892 and was the main point of entry for immigrants coming to the United States until 1954. 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island in the 60 years it was open.
Ireland, Italy and Germany were the three countries that were most represented in the counties of origin of those immigrants who were processed into the country at Ellis Island.
What is interesting despite all of these waves of immigration into the United States over the years is that the foreign born population of the United States never exceeded 15% of the nation's population.
However, that is the level of foreign born immigrant population that now lives in the United States.
It has never been higher.
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| Source: https://cis.org/Report/October-2023-ForeignBorn-Share-Was-Highest-History |
It is an astounding fact and speaks volumes of what the uncontrolled immigration that we have seen into the United States over the last several decades will ultimately mean to the demographic makeup of the nation.
The percentage of those who are foreign-born varies by state.
The Census Bureau provided these percentages in 2022.
26.7% in California are foreign-born followed by New Jersey (23.5%) and New York (22.7%).
On the other hand, only 1.8% are foreign-born in West Virginia.
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| Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/312701/percentage-of-population-foreign-born-in-the-us-by-state/ |
In New York City alone, almost 40% of its residents are foreign-born.
We are talking more than 3 million people.
Fueling much of the recored number of immigrants in the United States today is the Biden administration's failure to enforce the immigration laws that are on the books.
3.2 million illegals crossed the southern border and were encountered by the U.S. Border Patrol in the fiscal year 2023 ending in September. An additional 2.7 million were encountered in 2022 and 1.7 million in 2021. Most of these illegals were released into the country. Of course, these numbers do not include those that snuck into the country and were not encountered by border agents.
For context, there were 646,000 illegals in the last year of the Trump administration.
The limit of legal immigrants that are permitted into the United States has been set at 1 million annually for a number of years.
Despite being the city best suited in the nation to deal with this large inflow of immigrants, New York City is cracking under the weight of hundreds of thousands of migrants who have settled in the city.
Police and education budgets are both being cut in order to pay for the illegal migrants who came to the "sanctuary" city.
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| Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nyc-slashes-police-education-budgets-due-to-rising-cost-of-migrant-crisis/ |
Effective immediately, the New York Police Department must freeze hiring and bring officer numbers from over 33,000 to below 30,000, for the first time since the 1980s. The budget also proposed $1 billion cuts for education, including summer school programs and universal kindergarten. Adams said on Thursday that without federal funding to manage the city’s billion-dollar migrant crisis, more cuts may come.
Budget cuts are “extremely painful” but necessary to combat the migrant crisis that is projected to cost $11 billion over the next two years, Adams said.
Of course, housing and feeding these illegal immigrants is just the beginning of the costs that this uncontrolled immigration brings with it. Health care costs, public school budgets and various social welfare programs all are put under cost pressures due to this influx of illegals entering the country.
Tensions have escalated in Chicago between residents and migrants over the issue.
One thing is clear in all of this.
You cannot have this much immigration in a short period of time (most of it illegal) without creating cultural divisions in the short term and fundamental challenges regarding the cultural fabric of the nation into the future.
This is not conjecture.
We have seen it in this country before as the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and others were assimilated into the country.
Diversity is a strength but only if the fundamental values are aligned and the most basic beliefs and principles of a society are widely shared.
In Europe we being exposed to the reality of what can occur in a nation when that is not the case.
If you doubt that, look at the video below of a march in London over the weekend.
This is London but it could be Londonistan.
This looks more like something out of the old Ottoman Empire than what we used to consider a modern European nation.
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| Link to video https://twitter.com/BeeLineBlog/status/1730963953449160960 |
By ignoring the immigration laws the Biden administration is playing with fire.
The melting pot is close to boiling over.
Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called Biden out on the issue.
Of course, they see no problem.
"The border is secure."
It is not just secure, Joe Biden has done more than anybody to secure the border according to his press secretary.
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| Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/karine-jean-pierre-aoc-biden-done-more-anybody-immigration-securing-border |
In the meantime, the melting pot is getting hotter and hotter.
Scott, Asyou mention "Of course, these numbers do not include those that snuck into the country and were not encountered by border agents." As one living in one of the large immigration states, it is far worse than the published numbers reveal. The USA desperately needs real, legal immigration reform and a secure border. I suggest members of congress and Executive branch walk the streets of their cities alone after midnight for a view of what too many of their constituents face.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago Beeline posted a blog that quoted from the book All the Presidents Men “follow the money”. Virtually every facet of our economy benefits from cheap, unskilled labor and those that profit from it far outweigh the more obvious victims of our open border policy and willfully turn a blind eye. This included politicians. Do you think for a second the likes of Pelosi, Harris, Schiff and others give a damn about solving this? The CA economy would be on the toilet without that source of labor. They treat immigrants as political pawns. Driving them around to see the problems they helped create won’t solve a thing as long as the checks are fat.
ReplyDeleteSo true. It is always about the money. Until Trump came along it also was not just Democrats who turned a blind eye to illegal immigrants it was many Republicans as well for the reasons you mention.Trump never would have been elected but for making the immigration issue a central point in his campaign.
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