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Effects of Illegal Immigration on the Population Immigration, over the centuries since the United States first achieved independence, has had an inestimable influence on the character of the average the United States citizen. What has been estimated, meanwhile, are the absolute numbers of both legal and illegal immigrants to the United States.

Illegal immigration alone has brought as many as 20 million residents to the country and at least 10 million total inhabitants. When legal immigrants are also factored in, immigrants to the U.S. comprise approximately one eighth of the total population, over half of which are presumed to lack legal status to live and work in the United States.

Appeals for immigration reform, based on these numbers, are fairly constant from members of the the United States anti-immigration lobby, and in light of the exceptionally high rates of Latin the United States and Mexican illegal immigration (Mexicans make up over half of the current illegal immigrant population) in the United States, the pleas for government intervention get still more numerous and intense.

As evidenced by these statistics, the United States has already seen a sizable numerical impact from illegal immigration on its population. It is the demographic changes of the population, meanwhile, that may loom the largest. At current rates of increase, Hispanics/Latinos will overtake European whites as the ethnic majority. Of course, one would expect there to exist a significant amount of mixing between these two races as well as other minority populations.

Even so, the seeds for intergroup conflict could be sowed by these immigration shifts. While advocates for diversity and, naturally, disenfranchised Latin voters would welcome a rise in the prominence of their brethren and of their culture, those currently in power may call for more draconian immigration policies that may spawn further division between ethnic groups.

Effects of Illegal Immigrants on the WorkforcePrejudice Towards Illegal Immigrants

Prejudice against illegal and legal immigrants alike on the basis of race is also of significant concern to civil liberties champions. While some employers may award positions to illegal aliens for economic reasons (i.e. they can exploit their fear of deportation for low wages), some, too, may be motivated by racial bias. Moreover, illegal immigrants will often be met with negative stereotypes, sometimes attributed to anyone on Latin descent, despite them being hard workers and possibly not even Mexicans, let alone illegal immigrants.

Social Effects of Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration and the system that allows it have caused large effects on the United States, both economically and socially. These effects can be considered positive or negative, depending on the view point of the individual. Statistically, areas where illegal immigrants tend to congregate such as New York or southern California are experiencing an economic drain on social services that are funded by tax-payer dollars. These services include low-cost health insurance or Medicaid, low income housing, and food stamps.

On the other hand, contrary the the majority opinion, statistics may suggest that illegal immigrants actually contribute more to social security and medicare than they actually receive. Still, the social understanding of illegal immigration does not tend to reflect this idea.

Nationwide perceptions have been effected largely by the attacks that took place on September 11th. Social anxieties towards immigrants have increased as a result, and this has correlated in a resurgence of the national security argument levied against increased rights or opportunities for illegal immigrants.

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Immigrants are needed but set some rules

Our nation is a nation of immigrants. The rate of population increase has been going down greatly in recent years, at the same time that we retired people are increasing in numbers at a great pace.

To put it bluntly: We need these new immigrants. We, the citizens of the good ol USA, need for a solid work force to be sustained over the years.

We need an immigration process based on several things. Careful screening of known law-breakers. Properly identifying every man, woman and child who crosses the border with an individualized and traceable number, which goes with them wherever they go. A massive program to usher each of them through the process of becoming a contributing-and-receiving part of our society. Make learning and using English an early goal and requirement in their public activities. Assign a citizen case manager to each one, to guide them to becoming a participating part of society. Case Managers could be employed professionals, as well as volunteers, who will undergo case manager training, all over the country. Any person of foreign descent who refuses to cooperate should be immediately incarcerated and deported.

Orris Bullock, Haines City

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E.S. Browning's column on immigration and the labor shortage claims that illegal immigration is not new to the 21st century [Guest opinion: "Current labor force quandary nothing new for this country," Dec. 23]. Then, as some journalists with an agenda do, jumps to historical legal immigration to try to tie the two together.

Count me among the folks not fooled by this sleight of hand. What we did to legal immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries was wrong. So is giving illegal immigrants today a free pass. I support legal immigration. I do not support illegal immigration. Nor do I support robbery, murder, theft, assault, and so on, even if the motive for breaking the law is heartfelt.

Alan Matthews, Lakeland

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The dictatorial governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has again displayed his agenda for anarchy in approving an election police force with tax-funded dollars to oversee the election process in our state to be sure the outcome is within his grasp to determine the winner that his party believes should have won even when they lose.

Florida had no issues with voter fraud except for a few in the Villages that support DeSantis' opinion that Donald Trump won in 2020 and voted more than once to try and make that happen. His constant threats to election officials, school boards and private businesses show his tyrannical ideas he wants to implement on the people of Florida.

Wake up, Republicans, you need to realize that DeSantis along with the Trump Republican Party is out to destroy our democracy and our republic.

Dick Gebo, Lakeland

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One year ago, a mob of mostly white men stormed the Capitol to try to keep their race-baiting idol in power. The attack was not the last gasp of white supremacy or Trumpism, as many might have wanted to believe.

It was a national coming out party for the political rights insurrectionist movement, whose roots were set decades ago and completely visible in Californias electoral politics and public battles in the 1990s.

These rioters were neither outliers nor rejects within the Republican Party. A University of Chicago report released this week found that the more than 700 insurrectionists criminally charged in the attack were not members of some extreme political fringe. Theyre from the mainstream; only 7% were unemployed. Half were business owners or white-collar workers, including doctors, lawyers, accountants. The great majority nearly 90% were not part of extremist groups like the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.

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Jean Guerrero

Jean Guerrero is the author, most recently, of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda.

More importantly, the insurrection is a political movement, not ordinary criminal activity, though crimes can be involved, the Chicago researchers found. And the key driver of the movement is the white supremacist Great Replacement theory, which comes straight out of California politics from the 1990s.

What is new perhaps is how pervasive this ideology has become along with a broad embrace of violence. The Chicago report found that 21 million Americans believe President Biden is an illegitimate president and that use of force to restore Trump to office is justified. Let that sink in: 21 million people more than the combined population of the five most populous U.S. cities think Trump should forcibly regain power.

The report warns that this movement, with its approval of the use of violence, may well continue (or grow) with the coming election season and as Trump launches his own social media platform.

What force could make a vast swath of Americans want to hurt others and end our hallmark peaceful transitions of power? The answer is predictable: About 75% of pro-insurrection adults, according to the study, have the delusion that Democrats are importing Third World immigrants to replace them.

This racist and largely antisemitic conspiracy theory is not relegated to the dark cellars of 8chan and Telegram. Its openly promoted by leading conservatives, such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson. And its a theory that has violence at its core, inspiring white terrorist massacres.

Thats not a new play for Republican leaders. They opened the Pandoras box of replacement paranoia in California in the 1990s with scaremongering about a decline in the states white population and an imagined Mexican reconquista. Trumps senior advisor Stephen Miller, for one, grew up in California during that time.

That nativist craze took many forms, including border vigilantism and unfounded voter fraud claims precursors to Trumps Big Lie. During the 1988 elections, uniformed guards were hired by local Republicans to patrol mostly Latino neighborhoods, where some held up signs saying Non-citizens cant vote. In 1990, ousted San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock peddled voter fraud hysteria on his talk show.

Harold Ezell, co-author of the notorious Proposition 187 which sought to deny social services for undocumented people launched a voter fraud task force and hotline within days of the 1994 election. The thing that made me start wondering about this, Ezell said then, was when I was looking at the opposition to 187. I was watching the vociferous anger against 187 and the hot pursuit . . . to register (people) to vote against 187. Brown people voting had to mean something was amiss.

Trumps Big Lie and its capacity to elicit violence is inseparable from those biases. Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump falsely claimed there was a big problem of illegal immigrants voting, another way of stoking replacement psychosis.

And it worked. The people charged in connection with the storming of the Capitol came largely from places experiencing relative declines in white populations (a phenomenon attributable to racially motivated white flight amid demographic change, not a sinister replacement). Immigration paranoia was top of mind for many of them, including Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego resident who was shot and killed by police as she broke into the Speakers Lobby in the House.

Babbitt, a QAnon adherent, made social media posts and videos echoing right-wing propaganda about immigration. In one video, she was upset because she lived near the border: This immigration thing, I guess Im taking it so personally is because I am here and you see the effects, you see the crime, you see the drugs you see the rapes, you see all of the gangs.

In reality, San Diego is one of the safest big cities in the country.

California has in recent decades seen an increase in Latino political participation. About a million new Latino voter registrations in the 1990s were facilitated by changes in immigration law. Who was the proponent of this sweeping effort to replace whites with an influx of Third World immigrants? Ronald Reagan, with his 1986 immigration reform plan.

The Republican Party, being captive to replacement theory derangement, seems to have given up on courting Latino voters. This has led to the only place it could go: efforts to reverse electoral defeats with denial and violence that pose the true apocalyptic threat to American democracy.

@jeanguerre

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By MICHAEL BARONE

I want to add a few notes to my Christmas weekend column on the Census Bureau's July 2021 state population estimates and what stories they tell about growth and decline in the first 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic.

THE IMMIGRATION BUSTThe big news is about immigration. In the years from 2010 to 2019, the Census Bureau recorded an increase in "international migration" immigration, in layman's language of 873,000.For the 15 months from April 2020 to July 2021, the corresponding number is only 257,000 down 71% from the average of the years from 2010 to 2019. Presumably, that does not include most of the additional illegal immigrants who have crossed the border and fanned out across the country due to Biden administration policies. The cutoff date is July 1, just five months into the administration.The drop-off from the previous decade is enormous. It's even greater if you look back to the peak immigration surge that started in the 1980s and ended abruptly with the housing price collapse and sharp recession in 2007.And there's also a big difference in immigrant destinations. In earlier decades, half of all immigrants typically headed to three states: California, Texas and New York.In the plague year, they've headed elsewhere. The highest immigration increase as a percentage of the preexisting population in 2020-21 was in two dissimilar states: Massachusetts and Florida, followed by Washington, D.C.One can see in these numbers the increasing share of legal immigrants who are high-skilled people from East Asia and South Asia heading to university and medical school clusters in metro Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C. But it is not so on the West Coast. Massachusetts' immigrant increase (13,700) was essentially identical to California's (13,900), even though Massachusetts has about 7 million people and California has about 39 million.The No. 1 and No. 2 destinations for 2020-21 immigrants were Florida (41,200) and Texas (28,500). Together, these states account for more than a quarter of the nation's immigration increase. Plague-year immigrants are evidently attracted by the same factors as plague-year domestic migrants: low taxes, vibrant private-sector economics and a relative lack of COVID-19 restrictions.The pattern has political implications. Latin American and Asian immigrants from the 1982-2007 surge turned out to vote heavily Democratic, and high-skill Asian immigrants since 2007 have done so as well.But Latino voters, especially but not only in South Texas and South Florida, have trended toward Republicans in the Trump era. Polling shows that Latinos in the Lower Rio Grande Valley resent rather than identify with the illegal immigrants surging across the border.And Florida may be seeing an influx of high-skill and anti-socialist refugees from new leftist governments in Argentina, Peru and Chile, as it already has from Venezuela and Cuba.Where immigrants aren't going is also significant. Only 5% of the 2020-21 immigrant inflow was to California, and only 2% was to Illinois. Los Angeles and Chicago have lost their allure. And immigrants added less than one-tenth of 1% to the populations of the fast-growing Carolinas and Georgia and the slower-growing Midwest.

THE BIRTH DEARTHThe number of births in the 12 months up through July 1, 2021, was 3,582,000 9% lower than the average in the years from 2010 to 2019.You have to go back to 1979 to find a year with fewer births, and you can go back to the 1790 census and you won't find a year with fewer births as a percentage of the population (1.1%).Birth rates are lowest in the six New England states and New England-founded Oregon on the West Coast. They are similarly low in Florida and West Virginia, with their elderly populations. In recent years, only a few states, such as Maine and West Virginia, have registered more births than deaths. In the April 2020-July 2021 period, 25 states did.What states have the highest birth rates? Not California or New York, whose pre-2007 immigrants were prolific in recent times. In the plague year, their birth rates were below the national average.The most prolific instead are heavily Mormon Utah, three sparsely populated states with mining and financial sectors (Alaska and the Dakotas) and Texas.

THE POLITICAL IMPACTPolitically, the 25 states carried by former President Donald Trump had 43% of the nation's population in the 2020 census, which ended on April 1. But they produced 44% of the nation's births and attracted 44% of its immigrants in the following 14 months, ending July 1, 2021. Even as Biden Democrats took over the government, the nation's demographics shifted marginally toward Republicans in the plague year.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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In what is sure to be only the first shot fired in the Republican primary for Texas governor, former Florida congressman Allen West has leveled accusations at Governor Greg Abbott that Abbott has put the Texas Army National Guard at severe risk on the southern border.

The allegation comes at a time of definite crises for the guard. Morale among the guard serving in Operation Lone Star is low enough that substance abuse, desertions, and suicideare starting to become a serious problem according to the army itself. This is likely related to the dismal nature of the operation itself. Lone Star is largely seen as a needless, racist initiative from Abbott as a ploy to show he is tough on border security. In reality, itsbecome a meat grinder of false arrests and harassmentthat is overwhelming the Texas criminal justice system.

West announced in a news conference that guardsmen had been in contact with him over working conditions. Among other things, he cited late or missing pay, lack of supplies, and exposure to COVID-19 threats the guard is experiencing.

This falls squarely on the shoulders of the person that ordered the commencement of Operation Lone Star and thats you, Gov. Abbott, West said.

Abbotts office responded by punting the problem into the hands of the Biden Administration.

Since Governor Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March, National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers have apprehended over 85,000 migrants, arrested over 9,600 who committed a border-related crime, including smugglers and human traffickers, seized over 208 million lethal doses of fentanyl, and erected strategic barriers to stem the flow of illegal immigration, said a spokesman in a recent statement. Texas is beyond grateful for the brave men and women of the National Guard and DPS who are diligently and selflessly securing the border in the federal governments absence. We continue working with service leaders to ensure all who are deployed in Texas and overseas have the support they need to keep forging ahead and serve our great state and our nation.

The conservative infighting brings up some interesting contradictions. West says that Abbott is responsible for the rise in COVID among the guard. Its true that Abbott is planning on suing the Biden Administration over the presidents vaccine mandate for armed service members, which does endanger troops when it comes to the virus.

However, West is a noted conspiracy theorist and known for peddling various flavors of hogwash. He firmly stands against any sort of vaccine mandate, just as the governor he is criticizing does. Hes continuously doubled down on anti0vaccination rhetoric, even after contracting the disease himself.

Instead of jabbing Americans, and not illegal immigrants, with a dangerous shot which injects them with these spike proteins . . . guess what? I now have natural immunity and double the antibodies, and thats science, Westtweeted.

So, while Wests concern for the guards safety is well-founded, its weird that he is blasting Abbott for COVID-spreading policies he himself endorses.

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