It is always interesting to look at graphs and statistics to see the implications and to toss the stuff around. This is a graph of US immigration going back many years and it is clear to see that the number of new arrivals has greatly increased through time. I have always known that in the first 200 years of the country, say 1776 to 1976 we averaged about 250,000 per year but then after that it started going up dramatically. It was called growth and now is running about 1.4 million/yr.
One of the more interesting pasts of the graph, or what is lacking is that it does not include illegal immigration which at this time and for the past ten years or so apparently includes an amount equal to the legal figure. We have always had illegal immigration but the figures were never close to today's.
My concern is how do we continue to absorb such a large number when we know the resources available to us are finite? Are we not just dividing this big old apple pie into smaller and smaller slices? Throw that information in with the fact the standard of living in this country is dropping very, very fast and it would seem we are asking for trouble. The growth rate of the US is almost 1% a year, the same as New Delhi India.
I have heard that the USA absorbs more immigrants than all the rest of the world's countries put together. We are also the most diverse country in the world. Were does it stop?
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