As stated by the committee's president Bob Goldsborough, the huge (up to 10,000 people daily) influx of immigrants is already having a serious impact on the state of the education and social services systems, with expenditures on poverty benefits and free medical care having increased many times over. In many regions of the United States, the consequences of increased immigration are negatively affecting the real estate market, the unemployment rate, and the rise in crime.
California has faced the biggest problems in this regard, accounting for the main flow of Mexican immigrants (28% of the total), as well as immigrants from China, the Philippines, Cuba, Vietnam, El Salvador, and other countries of Latin America and the Pacific basin. Since 1965, the number of immigrants arriving in the United States has exceeded 30 million people.
Americans assess the consequences of immigration policy for the socio-economic situation in the country differently. Some point to the positive contribution of cheap immigrant labor to the economy. Others see its harmful consequences, since immigrants "take away" jobs from native-born Americans.
The committee recently published data on what this "cheap" labor costs the country: up to $68 billion is spent annually on legal and illegal immigrants in the United States. If we take into account indirect costs associated with the loss of jobs by those displaced by immigrants, then, according to calculations by Professor George Borjas, immigration costs the United States $133 billion annually.
The 2000 census once again confirmed forecasts regarding the likelihood that people from English-speaking countries will lose their dominant position in the country's population within the next 50 years. It is possible that more than half of U.S. residents will belong to ethnic groups that have no connection to either English-speaking or Spanish-speaking countries.
Since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, U.S. immigration policy has become extremely liberal. The result was an "opening of the floodgates" through which up to a million legal immigrants alone stream into the United States each year. The flow of illegal immigration defies counting, control, or any serious containment. Nevertheless, according to NCCAI data, the number of illegal immigrants has already reached 11 million people.
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