Pew projects Essays - Demography, Population, Immigration

Pew projects Essays - Demography, Population, Immigration Prof Lauren Conj Comm 301 15 November 2015 Pew projects that in forty years time, no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population, as whites are projected to become less than half of the U.S. population by 2055. Therefore, by 2065, the nation would be 46 percent white, 24 percent Hispanic, 14 percent Asian and 13 percent black. Moving forward, Pew projects, births to current Americans will be vastly outnumbered by new arrivals unless Congress hits the pause button on issuing new green cards. If that doesnt happen, Pew projects an immigration flow so large that nine-tenths of all new residents will be immigrants or their children. In a 2012 report, the Center for Immigration Studies observed that: if the level of immigration the Census Bureau foresees in 2050 were to continue after that date, the U.S. population would reach 618 million by 2100 double the 2010 population. Those numbers could go even higher as many politicians, most notably , are pushing to dramatically expand the number of green cards, foreign workers and refugees. These limitless immigration expansions are sought by donors who want to keep workers salaries as low as possible. Today, after five decades of large-scale immigration, real average wages are lower than they were in 1973, shortly after the green card gusher began. Because foreign workers do jobs for such low pay, their incomes are padded with welfare. A census data report authored by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies recently found that immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households, with more than half of U.S. immigrants on welfare. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald has observed foreign-born Hispanics and their American-born children use welfare at rates which vastly exceed those of native-born whites. Native-born Hispanics collected welfare at over twice the rate as native-born whites, Mac Donald writes. Moreover, the Hispanic population accounted for almost the entire increase in poverty from 1990 to 2004. As Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson has reported: