Immigrants

The federal government has just published some startling numbers on the number of immigrants in the United States ... see: Washington Examiner Story. This U.S. Census Bureau report does not break out the difference between legal and illegal immigrants, but it does indicate that the totals of the two grew by 1.7 million just in 2014 and 4.1 million from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2015. As can be seen, this is obviously far more than the norm for this number. The reason for this clearly-planned surge is twofold ... the Democrats' desire for new liberal voters and U.S. farmers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's and Silicone Valley's desire for more cheap labor ... independent of what it might be doing to this country.

The "official" total number of immigrants is 42.1 million (see my previous blog: Verklempt) and the number of Mexican immigrants in the United States now (at the end of the second quarter of 2015) totals 12.1 million. The total population of Mexico is 123.8 million which says that the United States now harbors roughly 1/10 of their people ... who, in turn, send back to Mexico about $23 billion a year ... see: Daily Mail Story ... which is approximately $1900 per immigrant. This (not including United States transfer payments) represents 1.2% of Mexico's GNP of $1.97 trillion. Perhaps Mexico is incented to allow these emigrants to come here?

Obviously these numbers indicate that Americans are feeling the pressure of this flood of immigrants in loss of job opportunities, increased terrorists' risks and in our burgeoning crime statistics. No wonder Donald Trump seems to have struck a chord with his stand on immigration. By the bye, since I am sure that our government has a pretty good handle on the number of legal immigrants there are in this country ... the number of illegal immigrants can easily be obtained from subtracting this figure from 42.1 million. I strongly suspect that it it far more than 11 or 12 million.