This past week, we published this item:
The worst immigration argument
Here we look at the topic of illegal immigration itself.
The number of illegal migrants living in the US was stable, at about 7,000,000, from 2017 to 2020. Then things began to change. It's important to realize that, as while the situation is bad, it's not quite what it was reported to be. It is not the case that 8,000,000 people have arrived under Biden's watch.
It is the case that too many have.
Here are some stats on it, lifted whose sale from the Migration Policy Institute. What does this tell us?
Quite a lot, really.
For one thing, the often repeated "8,000,000 have come in", is wrong. It's more like 3,000,000 in terms of an increase in the illegal immigrant population that was in the country from 2017 to 2020.
That figure, however, was a big increase from the 3,600,000 figure that was present in 1995. It climbed every year from 1995 to about 2007, when it was 8,200,000, after which it fell for a while. In 2021, it was 7,800,000.
This also demonstrates that, contrary to some recent reporting, most illegal immigrant in the US, slightly under half, are from Mexico. This has been the case for a long time. Recent news reports would suggest they're all Venezuelan, and perhaps this data is just a little too old to reflect a big influx of Venezuelans, but more likely, they're mostly from Mexico and parts to the immediate south of Mexico. Indeed, this would indicate 18% are from Central America, which we can perhaps boost up to maybe something like 25% now.
India at 4% is a surprise.
Most aren't married, well over 50%.
Close to half can't speak English.
Construction is the biggest employer, at 21%. Farm work, contrary to what some keep suggesting, doesn't even show up. Over half are uninsured, but nearly 30% own a home.
Most of these people are economic migrants.
Hardly any are dangerous Arab terrorists, as some propaganda wishes you to believe.
They are illegal, which is illegal, and illegality breeds illegal activities. Therefore, like it or not, these populations, like most distressed migrant populations, legal or illegal, are associated with crime, as recent Venezuelan gang activity in New York has demonstrated. The control of dope money in Colorado should have already demonstrated that. Sinola infiltrating American Indian reservations, which has been going on for many years, but which oddly just hit the press, is another feature of that.
For the most part, what we're seeing here is people who are in a position to pick up and move for work, are doing so. Some are merely opportunistic. Some are flat out desperate. Very few are asylum seekers in any conventional sense.
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