IMMIGRATION TIME BOMB ABOUT TO EXPLODE ON GOP

Census report headlines overlook why foreign-born favor the left

WASHINGTON – A creeping revolution is underway that’s stealthily altering the very core of America and the ideals for which its ancestors fought and died in freedom’s cause.

The phenomenon is leading the country toward embracing the very thing President Thomas Jefferson abhorred: ever-bigger government.

And it’s coming from a seemingly harmless policy many Americans embrace.

Legal immigration.

The numbers don’t lie. The U.S. is experiencing an immigration explosion never before seen in its history:

According to U.S. Census numbers, immigration averaged only 195,000 per year from 1921 through 1970.

With the change in immigration law in 1965, immigration levels skyrocketed from an average of 250,000 to one million a year.

The number of foreign-born persons in the U.S. has doubled from 1990 to 2010, almost tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970.

As of the last census in 2010, 40 million immigrants were in the U.S.

Most estimates are that at least 11-to-12 million of those are illegal immigrants. However, some estimates put that figure as high as 38 million.

Forty-million immigrants is about 13-percent of the total U.S. population of 320,009,000 the Census Bureau estimated on Jan 1, 2014.

A recent report from the Congressional Research Service indicated the foreign-born population may increase by another 27.4 million people by 2022, climbing from 40.8 million in 2012 to 58.3 million after ten years.

Republicans have been up in arms over President Obama’s executive action to provide amnesty for five million illegal immigrants. But mostly overlooked have been the even greater changes to the country caused by an unprecedented and decades-long spike in legal immigration, compounded by illegal immigration.

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