New Data Confirm Immigration During the Biden Years Was Greater than During the Era of Ellis Island

[rangerrebew]

New Data Confirm Immigration During the Biden Years Was Greater than During the Era of Ellis Island
 
January 3, 2025
 
Ira Mehlman
Media Director
FAIR Take | January 2025

New data from several sources, compiled by the New York Times in December, confirms what most Americans have intuitively known: The past four years have seen record levels of mass migration. In fact, the pace of immigration (legal and illegal) now surpasses the level seen during the era of Ellis Island.

As the Times explains, this massive wave of migration began with the incoming Biden administraiton. According to data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), between 2021 and 2023, annual net foreign migration to the United States averaged 2.4 million people. Putting that figure in context, during each of the first three years of the Biden administration, we absorbed a population that is greater than Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city. And, by the time the books are closed on this administration on Jan. 20, net migration to the U.S. will have totaled 8 million people (the equivalent of the population of New York City). According to an analysis from Goldman Sachs, approximately 5 million of that total illegally crossed the border. Even more entered via illegal parole programs and have no legal status.

Even in relative terms, the pace of immigration to the United States reached uncharted territory during the Biden years. The net annual influx of 2.4 million people represents 0.6 percent of our total population, a rate that this country has not experienced since 1850, when this was a much more sparsely populated country. During this same period, the foreign-born share of our population rocketed from 13.6 percent to 16 percent, according to CBO data, exceeding the previous high-water mark of 14.8 percent set in 1890.

https://www.fairus.org/news/misc/new-data-confirm-immigration-during-biden-years-was-greater-during-era-ellis-island

[Smokin Joe]

And people at Ellis Island were vetted, examined for diseases, etc.

Not so with Kammie and Joe's illegal alien show, coming to a town near you (if it isn't already there).

Let's put this in perspective.

In all the years of importing slaves from Africa, under 400,000 (about 388,000) enslaved Africans were brought to the US to be sold.

[berdie]

And people at Ellis Island were vetted, examined for diseases, etc.

Not so with Kammie and Joe's illegal alien show, coming to a town near you (if it isn't already there).

Let's put this in perspective.

In all the years of importing slaves from Africa, under 400,000 (about 388,000) enslaved Africans were brought to the US to be sold.

That is the first thing that crossed my mind.

[Smokin Joe]

FIFTY times as many illegals let in as freshly imported African slaves were sold during the entire slavery era. Let that sink in.
We fought a war allegedly over (well, in part, anyway) those African slaves, what are we going to have over 20,000,000 illegals?

[Fishrrman]

"The Great Replacement"

Mission:
Accomplished.