Will immigration save America
or change it forever?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Carl Braun
Examiner.com
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CIA's Panetta meets with Islamic leaders in Dearborn, MI
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Immigration advocates are quick to intone that America is a melting pot, a diverse crucible of ethnicity that makes our country strong. Historically that may be true as immigrants came to America to become “Americans”. However today immigration is less about assimilation and more about changing America to be more like that place from whence you came.There is another factor today that did not exist before and this single fact will change America forever. It begins and ends with fertility or birth rates.
According to research, in order for a culture to maintain itself for 25 years, it must have a birth rate of 2.11 children per family. Anything less than that and the culture will decline. In history, no culture has ever reversed a birth rate of 1.9 children per family or less.
Currently both Canada and the United States each have net birth rates of 1.6 and as we look at America’s European roots, we see that the entire EU consisting of 31 countries only has an average birth rate of 1.38 with Spain, Italy and Germany averaging 1.2. It is statistically impossible to reverse this trend yet in Europe overall population is on the increase due to massive amounts of immigration; Islamic Immigration.
In France for example the birth rate amongst native Frenchman is 1.8 children per couple, while the birth rate amongst Islamic immigrants is 8.1. Without any change, in a few decades, Europe as we know it will cease to exist. It will become an Islamic Continent with all the stability and fun stuff that brings. Europe will fall without a shot fired. It is irreversible at this point.
What about the United States? Without immigration, our birthrates are 1.6 but if you factor in Hispanic immigration the number jumps to 2.11, the minimum needed to sustain a culture; but what culture will that be? Will it be a place where English is spoken, where the basic tenets of our Constitutional Republic are honored and revered? Not likely. Just go to your local ATM and see which languages are vying for the top spot. My bet is on Spanish. No contest. Today’s immigrants are looking for change and change is what they, and we, will get, for better or worse.
What about Islamic immigration here in the US? IN 1970 there were 100,000 Muslim’s in this country. Today there are 9 million. Dearborn, Michigan is 33% Arabic and 29% of the homes speak Arabic as the primary language. Due to both legal and illegal immigration, we do not have too much to worry about in the short term about being overrun by Islamic fervor. When you add up all of the Muslim immigrants from all the nations on earth you still find that Muslim Immigration is way behind Latin immigration in the US…It is in second place.
If Europe is a guide, unchecked Islamic immigration will do what it has done to France, England and the rest of the EU. It is now only a matter of time before they each are Islamic Republics. It has been said by critics that Islam is not so much a religion as it is a system of government. One need only look at Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries to see shining examples of what Sharia law can do for you. While the US is a good distance behind those countries in terms of Islamic immigration, we do lead the world in Latin or Hispanic Immigration. It’s the old good news, bad news thing. Without Hispanic immigration or a sudden change in European-American mating habits, we cannot maintain the American culture as we know it. With it, the culture changes anyway. If Comprehensive Immigration Reform were really about maintaining a harmonious balance of diversity in America, we'd be recruiting Europeans in a big way. After all, in a few short years, they may be eligible for refugee status anyway.
Sources:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/Papers/gkh1/chap1.htm
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2006/WPP2006_Highlights_rev.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIdgutZOLE8
Carl Braun is an analyst for the Homeland Security Policy Institute Group and he's logged 5,000-plus hours on the border. He has written several books including his most recent on Border Insecurity, “Above All Else”
. Contact Carl at Carl.Braun@BPAUX.org.
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