There has been heated debate lately about immigration in the U.S. There are basically two camps of thought. One is that immigrants fill jobs at companies that Americans can’t or won’t and provide pressure relief for third world countries without opportunity. The other is that if we continue to let immigrants come into the country at the current rate of approaching 1,000,000 per year for legal immigrants and another 1,000,000 for illegal immigrants, ‘immigrants will foreclose on our future’.

Let’s take the first position on immigration — towns and industries could not survive without the foreign influx of worker immigrants filling jobs. Did you ever stop to think about who had these jobs before the federal government quadrupled annual legal immigration? We did. Not only did our wonderful government quadruple legal immigration, we continue to look the other way and allow illegal immigration to expand even faster beyond our already expanded quotas.

What did this do to American corporations? The surplus manpower busted unions and slashed wages, benefits, working conditions, and safety. Without the influx of foreigns workers, meat processing and other industries would still be providing middle-class lifestyles for Americans. When immigrants from 3rd world countries arrive here, they are used to getting paid cents an hour. When minimum wage is presented to them, it seems like a godsend. Well, why hire a bunch of Americans for $15 an hour when you can hire an immigrant for $5 an hour? I am not even going to mention the ‘illegal’ immigrants that cut payroll even lower. What about Americans who only have these skills in jobs that were taken over by the immigrants? And what about the 40 percent of black men who do not have a full time job today? Perhaps this isn’t such a good thing for ‘Americans’ who want the same thing these immigrants want — a job and a livable wage.

So, let’s take a look at the opposing view…it’s all about the numbers. To quote Roy Beck, author of The Case Against Immigration, and President of Numbers USA, Education and Research Foundation, America will not have a future at all if the immigration numbers continue at their current levels. I came across Mr. Beck while reading letters to the editor in the Wilson Quartley Autumn 2006, issue. I was so impressed with Mr. Beck’s comments in his letter, that I did some research and found a video he made that spells out this dire threat of uncontrolled immigration to our future. Take a few minutes to watch this amazing and shocking video. This video is to immigration ‘out of control’ as An Inconvenient Truth is to global warming. Watch it and take a deep breath, because it involves you and I and it is an eye-opener.

Do all the numbers in the video include ‘illegal’ immigration? NO, it does not!

On annual illegal immigration, the Center for Immigration Studies has extrapolated the latest Census data to show that 700,000 to 800,000 new illegal aliens are ’settling’ each year. Now, far, far more than that enter illegally each year, but there is a lot of back and forth. The 700,000 to 800,000 represents illegals who truly settle in for at least a couple of years, and usually much, much longer. . -NumbersUSA.com

What about if we include the offspring from the millions of immigrants? Well, good question. Here is some mind-blowing research from cis.org that will make you crazy.

Analysis of data collected by the Census Bureau in 2002, shows that women from the top-10 immigrant- sending countries living in the United States, collectively tend to have higher fertility than women in their home countries. As a group, immigrants from these countries have 23 percent more children than women in their home countries, further adding to world population growth. Among the findings:

- Among Mexican immigrants in the United States, for example, fertility averages 3.5 children per woman compared to 2.4 children per women in Mexico.

- As for legal status, we estimate that the birth rate of illegal alien women was 3.1 children on average in 2002, or about 50 percent higher than the two children natives have on average. The birth rate for legal immigrants is 2.6, or about one-third higher than that of natives.

- If illegals are allowed to remain in the country, either as illegal aliens or legal residents, births alone will add some four million people to the U.S. population over the next decade.

- Immigrant fertility differs by education level much more than that of natives. For example, immigrants without a high school degree have 3.3 children on average, 74 percent higher than the 1.9 children for college graduate immigrants.

- Because immigrant fertility differs so much by education, immigrants now account for more than one in three births to mothers without a high school diploma.

Just to give you a benchmark, lets use Mexican immigrants. They have three and a half births per woman!? We native americans are around 2.1. Does anyone realize what this means? Let’s look at the math. With every mother and father having 3.5 children then that would mean an increase of 175% per generation or every 20 or 30 years! This is insane!

If you would like to do something about this, please visit this website and help Roy Beck in the journey to helping America. Numbers USA