NYT Census Shows Growth of Immigrants. Unbelievable! [View All]

[Auntie Bush]

You won't believe how many Immigrants there really are in this country!
HUGE increase since bush* took office. I'll bet he was thinking he'd give them amnesty through his rubber stamp congress and they'd be so grateful and vote for him in the future. Also Dems will lose another voting demographic.



Census Shows Growth of Immigrants

The number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years, fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau.

Coming in the heart of an election season in which illegal immigration has emerged as an issue, the new data from the bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey is certain to generate more debate. But more than that, demographers said, it highlights one reason immigration has become such a heated topic.

“What’s happening now is that immigrants are showing up in many more communities all across the country than they have ever been in,” said Audrey Singer, an immigration fellow at the Brookings Institution. “So it’s easy for people to look around and not just see them, but feel the impact they’re having in their communities. And a lot of these are communities that are not accustomed to seeing immigrants in their schools, at the workplace, in their hospitals.”

“It’s the continuation of a pattern that we first began to see 10 or 15 years ago,” said Jeff Passel, senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, who has examined the new census data. “But instead of being confined to areas like the Southeast, it’s beginning to spill over into some Midwestern states, like Indiana and Ohio. It’s even moving up into New England.”

Continued (It's scary how this country will/has changed)

How has the influx of immigrants to the U.S. changed the political and cultural landscape?
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