I find it odd that so many jump so fast to conclusions and assumptions.
Legal immigration to fill needs, at a reasonable assimilation rate, is legit and warranted. No where did I say static, or decreasing population was the answer. Duh.
Gangs, drugs, guns, homeless, crap living conditions, lower property values, strained first responders, wage deflation, heck even the occasional terrorists are things we need to get a handle on NOW and can do easily....by stopping the flow of millions of poor, destitute, uneducated burdens.
If you care at all about having an education insight into this and not continuing to perpetuate lies, I suggest you read through here. It's a pretty good comprehensive review of all the relevant stats related to immigrants, legal and illegal, and how they relate to everything you keep mentioning
Immigration touches on many facets of life in the United States. Get the facts with this useful resource, which compiles in one place answers to some of the most often-asked questions about immigration and immigrants in the United States now and historically. This article contains essential data...
www.migrationpolicy.org
To cover some of your claims:
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In 2019, 33 percent (12.9 million) of the 39.5 million immigrants ages 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher, similar to U.S.-born adults (see Figure 3). However, newer arrivals tend to be better educated; 48 percent of immigrants who entered the country between 2014 and 2019 held at least a bachelor’s degree.[/quote]
Immigrants tend to have slightly lower incomes than the native born. Immigrant households in 2019 had a median income of $63,550, compared to $66,040 for native-born households.
Fourteen percent of immigrants were poor (that is, with family incomes below the official poverty threshold of $25,750 for a family of four in 2019), compared to 12 percent of the U.S. born.
So they are equally educated and have only slightly lower mean income compared to the native born.
The biggest difference is in health insurance, but even that isn't massive
Approximately 58 percent of U.S. immigrants had private health insurance in 2019 (compared to 69 percent of the U.S. born), and 30 percent had public health insurance coverage (compared to 36 percent of the U.S. born). Meanwhile, about 20 percent lacked health insurance (compared to slightly less than 8 percent of the U.S. born).
Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, health insurance coverage rates have improved for both the U.S. born and immigrants. From 2013 to 2017, the rate of uninsured immigrants fell from 32 percent to 20 percent, and the rate for the native born fell from 12 percent to 7 percent. The Trump administration made a number of changes to ACA policies, including eliminating the individual coverage mandate penalty, ending cost-sharing subsidies to insurers, and cutting funding for navigator programs. The rates of those uninsured has since remained mostly level.
So all in all, immigrants come in with the same education (or better), make slightly less money, and are a little less likely to have private health insurance,
But what about crime? Well there is zero evidence that legal immigrants have a crime rate any different from native born, and statistically, illegal immigrants - which is what I'm sure you are referring to, are FAR less likely to prevent crime than the native citizens. This has been proven over and over again.
This study used uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens between 2012 and 2018.
www.ojp.gov
U.S. citizens, in most cases, are committing more crimes than undocumented immigrants, data from the Texas Criminal Justice System showed.
www.newsnationnow.com
So explain to me what the problem is here. We let people into the country that come in and work, make money, and commit fewer crimes. The per capita crime rate would actually go UP if we stopped.
Is it that we let soooo many people in? Well what does the stats say about how many we actually allow and how many actually come in?
Well that doc explains it all also. Here are some highlights because its too much to quote for you.
- less than a million green cards granted per year
- 2.8mil nonimigrant visas (temporary stay)
- Refugee/asylum was 18k in FY20, and only ~12k actually resettled here in FY21. Despite what you hear, the number granted asylum is very, very small.
- 75% of refugees identify as Christian subtypes
- estimated about 11mil illegal immigrants total in the country (remember - they don't stay, a large % that come in also go home) and has been stable for several years - meaning the number of illegals is not going up
- historically around 100k-200k are deported annually
- only a small % of all immigrants are here illegally
wait but those ilegals must be jobless bums right? Actually, no. The vast majority are employed in some fashion, and are cricial to our economy already.
www.americanprogress.org
In fact, a higher % of illegal immigrants are employed than everyone else. They actually contribute MORE.
Where is this poor destitute burden you speak of? Its not coming across the border.
