Immigration is exploding so fast that it is adding the equivalent of the population of Los Angeles every three years, or over 10 million, according to a new Senate analysis.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest on Monday said that Census Bureau projections of net immigration, of the difference between those coming into and leaving the United States, is 1.24 million annually.
But it is continuing to surge and between 2015 and 2017 will reach 3.85 million, just shy of the 3.88 million population of Los Angeles.
“For the three years from 2015-2017, Census estimates that approximately 3.75 million immigrants on net will enter the United States. For 2018-2020, Census projects another 3.80 million. And for 2021-2023, Census projects we will add 3.85 million. To put that in numerical perspective, the population of the entire City of Los Angeles as of 2013 was an estimated 3.88 million,” said the report from the subcommittee headed outspoken immigration critic Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican.
And, the analysis noted, that doesn’t include the impact of those immigrants having children.
The analysis comes on the heels of another report issued Monday showing that the last decade of immigration growth has been the highest in U.S. history and is on a pace to add another 100 million immigrants over the next 50 years.
For perspective, that is the equivalent population of of 25 Los Angeles’.
“Within just eight years, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will eclipse all prior historical records and continue setting new all-time records every year to follow,” said the analysis.
The Senate analysis reviews recent immigration waves and draws attention to the impact the recent flood has had on America.
For example, in 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 residents were born abroad. Today it is nearly one in seven.
Most immigrants come to the United States via the green card. Some 1 million are issued each year.
Sessions has made jobs for Americans the focus of his criticism of immigration. He believes that some reform of the freely-issued employment green cards is needed.
Said his subcommittee report:
The document primarily responsible for the annual flow of immigration into the United States is the green card – of which more than 1 million are issued annually – which provides the recipient with lifetime residency in the United States, lifetime work authorization in the United States, the ability to collect federal welfare and entitlements, and a guaranteed path to becoming a full voting citizen. Therefore, current immigration growth will continue unless Congress passes a law to reduce the number of green card issuances.
“Without such changes, the Census Bureau projects that, on our current immigration policy baseline, every single year the total number of immigrants in the United States will increase, the annual rate of immigrant admissions will increase, and the foreign-born share of the population will increase. Pew polling data shows that 83 percent of the public opposes this baseline and believes the level of immigration should either be frozen or reduced, including 92 percent of Republicans who feel that way. By a 3-1 margin across all voting blocs, Americans want immigration reduced, not increased. By a nearly 10-1 margin, Americans of all backgrounds are united in the belief that companies with positions to fill should raise wages instead of bringing in new foreign labor from abroad.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
