Any amount of immigration, regardless of the numbers, is traditional and proper?
But from 1776 to 1976 America averaged only 230,000 immigrants, yearly. Remember, that average includes the great immigrating numbers during the turn-of-the-century's Great Wave, when the US was only 76 million inhabitants, industrializing and still expanding west. Contrasting historical averages with today's nontraditional immigration engorgement of at least 1.5 million permanent additions annually should provide a much-needed perspective to an otherwise distorted historical picture.
"It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest." ? America is full. It is your right and responsibility to demand the US Congress establish and enforce an immigration reduction moratorium of 100,000 legal immigrants a year. Even if that number were imposed today, you still would not see the country's population growth rate stabilize until about 325 million, nearly 40 million additions. It's your future.
2006-10-12
08:10:56
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