The Looming Immigration Disaster
by Ian Mosley
A large problem with the immigration debate in this country is that it tends to get bogged down in trivia. A fence or no fence? Amnesty or no amnesty, and if so, what kind? Can local towns and counties try to enforce immigration laws? Will the courts overturn their new laws? In the meantime, the demographic death sentence of White America is rushing forward at us with the speed of an oncoming train, and we just talk and talk and talk and do nothing.
The conservative organization FAIR’s website has some chilling data that needs to get all of our minds concentrated. “Our population was just over 200 million in the 1970 Census and the rate of population increase of about one percent per year indicates that with no change we may add another 300 million residents over the next 70 years. A continuation of the current trend means that most of the future U.S. population increase will result from immigration….In 1970, less than one in every twenty residents in our country was foreign born. In 2006, the comparable level is nearly one in every eight residents is foreign born. This is a trend that will continue if immigration policy and immigration law enforcement do not change. Yet, the White House and the Senate are pushing to accelerate the process of change by opening the door wider to both immigrants and to foreigners coming as nonimmigrants to take American jobs.” (more…)