The number of immigrants living in the United States has reached a record high of 42.4 million, new census data reveals.
As of 2014, one in eight US residents was born abroad - more than double the amount in 1980.
Taking into account the number of children born to immigrant parents (16.2 million) the jumps to 58.6 million people, or one in six residents.
Data also suggests the growth rate is accelerating. The population increased by 2.4 million since 2010, with an extra one million last year alone.
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That would not be a problem except that the people coming here are not coming because they are the best at what they do. They are coming here because we are offering free money, housing and food. Once that runs out then what? Vote democrat?
the parasites will devour the host
Don't we all come from foreign born? Unless your American Indian.
American Indians are immigrants too, then. Their ancestors crossed the existing land bridge from Asia, thousands of years ago.
They had their tribes and associations, but no geopolitical or delineated negotiated boundaries, and no cohesive national identity as citizens of a sovereign country. Some tribes had sophisticated tribunal and governance systems in place. But these varied widely from tribe to tribe, even village to village. The constant wars weren't a result of centralized direction, but the result of intertribal disputes, and they were resolved between themselves. No "Indian Federal Government" stepped in to end conflicts.
So it's not exactly accurate to say the Indians had founded a country here first, and we invaded them. Treaties were negotiated separately with leaders of individual tribes. Why would a Blackfoot leader have any authority or jurisdiction over the affairs of the Iroquois or Choctaw, for example?
There was no "country" in existence when The settlers first reached North America. The local tribes were independent of each other, and free to establish their own laws, traditions, and customs on the land they inhabited.
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