We’re being replaced.
A report of the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest shows immigration officials by 2025 couldapprove an estimated 10.5 million visas, which allow immigrant workers and foreign students to live and work in the country temporarily. That's more than the total populations of the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to the right-wing site Breitbert News, which exclusively obtained the Senate report.
Federal policy allows officials to grant approximately 1 million new Legal Permanent Residents status cards every year. Department of Homeland Security statistics show that 5.25 million immigrants had been given that status in the last five years. Recent polling, however, shows a majority of U.S. citizens want lawmakers to reduce those numbers drastically.
Since the 1950s, visa programs have made up the overwhelming majority of immigration to the country for the workers and student, as well as refugees, permanent residents and those who are seeking political asylum. Critics of the country’s immigration policies have said visa programs allow corporations to substitute lesser-skilled and lower-paid foreigners for currently unemployed jobseekers, which has enraged conservative groups and scholars who oppose mass immigration to the U.S.
“The last four decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the wage and employment structure in the United States,” Eric Gould, an economics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has said, according to Breitbart News. “ The overall evidence suggests that the manufacturing and immigration trends have hollowed-out the overall demand for middle-skilled workers in all sectors, while increasing the supply of workers in lower skilled jobs. Both phenomena are producing downward pressure on the relative wages of workers at the low end of the income distribution.”
Critics also blasted “green cards” for allowing immigrants to reap social benefits that they claim should be exclusively for U.S. citizens. Those benefits include: Work authorization, federal welfare programs, Social Security and Medicare benefits, and voting privileges. Green cards also allow immigrants to apply for citizenship and aid the immigration of family members and elderly
Federal policy allows officials to grant approximately 1 million new Legal Permanent Residents status cards every year. Department of Homeland Security statistics show that 5.25 million immigrants had been given that status in the last five years. Recent polling, however, shows a majority of U.S. citizens want lawmakers to reduce those numbers drastically.
Since the 1950s, visa programs have made up the overwhelming majority of immigration to the country for the workers and student, as well as refugees, permanent residents and those who are seeking political asylum. Critics of the country’s immigration policies have said visa programs allow corporations to substitute lesser-skilled and lower-paid foreigners for currently unemployed jobseekers, which has enraged conservative groups and scholars who oppose mass immigration to the U.S.
“The last four decades have witnessed a dramatic change in the wage and employment structure in the United States,” Eric Gould, an economics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has said, according to Breitbart News. “ The overall evidence suggests that the manufacturing and immigration trends have hollowed-out the overall demand for middle-skilled workers in all sectors, while increasing the supply of workers in lower skilled jobs. Both phenomena are producing downward pressure on the relative wages of workers at the low end of the income distribution.”
Critics also blasted “green cards” for allowing immigrants to reap social benefits that they claim should be exclusively for U.S. citizens. Those benefits include: Work authorization, federal welfare programs, Social Security and Medicare benefits, and voting privileges. Green cards also allow immigrants to apply for citizenship and aid the immigration of family members and elderly
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