Illegal Aliens Rampant Access to Taxpayer Cash Marco Rubio, the Castro Plan, The ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration expansion would have doubled the rate of new immigration into the United States despite 1 in 4 Americans in their working-ages not having a job. Meanwhile, the I-squared bill would allow virtually unlimited foreign hiring through universities. As the National Review wrote opposing such increases: “the United States is a nation with an economy, not an economy with a nation.”

Marco Rubio, the Castro Plan, The ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration expansion would have doubled the rate of new immigration into the United States despite 1 in 4 Americans in their working-ages not having a job.  Meanwhile, the I-squared bill would allow virtually unlimited foreign hiring through universities.  As the National Review wrote opposing such increases: “the United States is a nation with an economy, not an economy with a nation.”

 Keep in mind, the last time immigration as a share of population hit its peak – in 1910 – immigration reductions were enacted and the share fell for six straight decades.  

This time around, lawmakers, led by the Gang of Eight, and spurred on by various international CEOs and immigration lobbies, are trying to increase immigration above our never-before-seen levels. Illegal Aliens fill our hospitals and welfare offices and the jails. 

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Keep in mind that immigration rates (e.g. green cards issuances) are already nearly double what they were in the Regan years and more than triple what they were in the post WW-II years.  However, stay rates were lower in the 50’s and 60’s so total immigration levels were still falling; stay rates are far higher now, in part because of more generous federal benefits. 

Since 1970, the foreign-born population has quadrupled.  Meanwhile, wages today are lower than they were in 1973.  And wages as a share of GDP have been falling for four decades.  Perhaps this is why the public overwhelmingly favors cuts to record-breaking immigration.  Unlike illegal immigrants, when individuals arrive with green cards, they have automatic lifetime work permits, benefits access and the ability to stay as citizens.  

Most green card recipients are lesser-skilled and lower-wage than U.S. workers.  Each year we admit another 1 million each year plus half a million students, 700,00 temp foreign workers, and 70,000 refugees & aslyees.  Among the groups most immediately harmed by high annual flows are past immigrants seeking better pay, income security and inclusion in the middle class.

 Other developed countries are moving to cut immigration rates – for instance, Britain’s conservative party is seeking a 2/3 cut to annual immigration – as demand for workers continues its steady fall.  Automation in particular means that the U.S. will have a huge supply of lower-skilled unemployed workers in our existing domestic labor pool, presenting social challenges that would be compounded by large low-skilled worker flows from abroad.