The massive surge of illegal immigrants reveals a sinister threat to the country, two new reports say.
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows there are now upwards to 61 million immigrants in the U.S. today of which 15.7 immigrants are here illegally.
The numbers represent a massive surge as only 35 years ago there were but 13.5 million immigrants in the whole country. Noting that we now have a ratio of almost one in five citizens being either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, the report gravely notes this huge number is a “complete break with the recent history of the United States.”
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The study goes on to reveal that the U.S. has seen the shocking jump of 18.5 million new immigrants just since the year 2000.
CIS asks a pertinent question: “These numbers raise profound questions that are seldom even asked: What number of immigrants can be assimilated? What is the absorption capacity of our schools, health care system, infrastructure, and labor market? What is the effect on the environment and quality of life from significantly increasing the nation’s population density?”
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The writer of the study, CIS Director of Research Steven Camarota, goes on to question the efficacy of allowing even more immigrants into the country.
“With 45 million legal immigrants and their young children already here,” Camarota says, “does it make sense to continue admitting more than one million new legal permanent immigrants every year?”
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These questions are not lost on the American people, it appears, as another story finds many Americans are seriously worried over the number of immigrants we are allowing onto the country.
A poll commissioned by the consulting firm A.T. Kearney found a majority of Americans now believe that immigration is posing a serious threat to the U.S.A.
According to Bloomberg 65 percent of respondents agreed that immigration is putting the nation at risk. While millennials were less likely to feel the same way, at 55 percent even younger respondents felt immigration was a growing problem.
“What is clear is that Americans are more down on immigration than in past eras,” Bloomberg writes of the poll. “As recently as 2002, the Harris Poll found that only 1 percent of Americans mentioned immigration, including refugees, when asked to name the two most important issues for the government to address. That rose to 19 percent last year.”
