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A New Government Report Shows Hyper-Immigration's Toll
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04/24/2015 06:47 PM ET


Change: A new congressional study suggests that massive immigration increases in recent decades have hammered middle-class wages. Whether through taking jobs or casting votes, hyper-immigration is revolutionizing the U.S.

We are a nation of immigrants, it is often reflexively said. But it is a little-known fact that our foreign-born population dropped more than 11% in the quarter century after World War II.

Since 1970, however, we have become an irrational nation of hyper-immigration, as the foreign-born among us have exploded from fewer than 10 million to more than 41 million as of 2013 - a staggering 324.5% increase.

Pure political motivation is at the root of this ongoing revolution. The 1965 Immigration Act, pushed hard by Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy, took effect in 1968. Speaking at the signing ceremony at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, President Johnson assured the country it was "not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions," and "will not reshape the structure of our daily lives."

Before that act, as Johnson pointed out, "only three countries were allowed to supply 70% of all the immigrants."

A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service for the Senate Judiciary Committee finds that during this hyper-immigration, incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans flat-lined, then dropped starting in 2000. By comparison, middle-class wages increased between 1945 and 1970.

Last year, Karen Zeigler and Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies found that, according to federal government data, "since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal)."

And the politics behind all this continues. Homeland Security Department sources tell PJ Media's J. Christian Adams that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is "sending letters to all 9 million green card holders urging them to naturalize prior to the 2016 election."

On top of that, as the Washington Times' Stephen Dinan reported last week, deportations of illegals "have plummeted by another 25% so far this year," with just 117,181 immigrants deported in the six months since October.

As a landmark report from Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum last year concluded, the annual flow of 1.1 million legal immigrants under the current system means more than 5 million new potential voters by 2024, and more than 8 million by 2028.

Since most who vote support Democrats, "the influx of these new voters would reduce or eliminate Republicans' ability to offer an alternative to big government, to increased government spending, to higher taxes, and to favorite liberal policies such as ObamaCare and gun control," Schlafly has warned.

She further argues that "there is nothing controversial about the report's conclusion that both Hispanics and Asians, who account for about three-fourths of today's immigrants, generally agree with the Democrats' big-government agenda," and therefore "vote two-to-one for Democrats."

As Cuban-American GOP Sen. Marco Rubio finds that his recognition of the threat of hyper-immigration has helped propel him to the head of the party's presidential pack, Republicans now have new political ammo: a government report confirming that for 50 years the huddled masses have been trampling the middle class.



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 04/27/2015 06:49 AM
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tpapablo

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A new congressional study suggests that massive immigration increases in recent decades have hammered middle-class wages. Whether through taking jobs or casting votes, hyper-immigration is revolutionizing the U.S.

A fairly obvious result. I would note that the same politicians bemoaning income inequality (i.e., progs), are the ones who are exacerbating it with their illegal immigration policies. Those politicians, however, are blessed with a particularly ignorant class of people out there who are stupid enough to vote for them.



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scombrid

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Originally posted by: dingpatch Republicans now have new political ammo: a government report confirming that for 50 years the huddled masses have been trampling the middle class.

It is interesting to watch the Republicans resurrect populist rhetoric reminiscent of the early 20th century while the old guard would like to keep the flow of cheap labor going. It's a good trick to keep people chopping off their noses.

Of course immigrants suppress wages. Illegal immigrants are the best for this because they'll work for next to nothing you can abuse the shit out of them and they've got no recourse.

You people really think the Republican party is interested in restricting immigration? They just want to keep it under the table.

 

 



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scombrid

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Originally posted by: dingpatch But it is a little-known fact that our foreign-born population dropped more than 11% in the quarter century after World War II.

Little known by whom?

 

A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service for the Senate Judiciary Committee finds that during this hyper-immigration, incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans flat-lined, then dropped starting in 2000. By comparison, middle-class wages increased between 1945 and 1970.

What else was going on during those periods?

What were the Republican administrations up to during that time? You know, things like Nixon's trip to China, RAygun's amnesty, etc...?

There wasn't anything like outsourcing of jobs or union busting going on. Nah.

 



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theglide

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Good find dingster!

Busting unions and big outsourcing numbers had NOTHING to do with the decline in middle class wages.

People, I beg you, please open your eyes and look at the products you purchase.

Most are still Made in the USA but unfortunately, it's the immigrants that are holding these many manufacturing jobs.



Edited: 04/27/2015 at 04:25 PM by theglide
 04/28/2015 04:40 AM
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Cole

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Scott was big on kicking out the undocumented....until the orange growers showed up in Tallahassee.

Doh!

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 04/28/2015 06:38 AM
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eibla

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This is right up there with "Lack of Pirates causes Global Warming". Conservatics lack critical thinking skills. Like were's the data that shows immigration and middle class wage stagnation is related?

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 04/29/2015 05:27 PM
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eibla

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Crickets from the conservatics.... That's what I thought.

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