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.
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
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.
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You know good and well I/we are talking about illegals. Hundreds of thousands over the last years. How do you know if they left? Or what their education is? All these illegals in the trades have bachelor's degrees?
My point is .. why let in so many? Legal or illegal? What do we need? At what cost? There are hundreds of stories of crime/deaths attributed to illegals and some legal too. Why do we import that? You ok with your elected officials allowing a person in that then kills your wife? Driving a nail or doing some plumbing is not the only thing that you need to be good at to make the USA an overall better place. If we need something, advertise it and hire. No more mass migration and illegal crossings. What is the goal? 400 million? 500 million? That will without a DoUBt make the USA a more sucky place to live. So why are we allowing it? Voting for it?
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www.pewresearch.org
