Last year’s decennial Census engendered debate among a large cross-section of Americans for a variety of reasons, from those who criticized the enumeration of illegal aliens, to those who decried what they saw as political manipulation by the current administration, to those who simply inveighed against what they perceived as the inefficiency, malfeasance and incompetence of a vast government bureaucracy-widespread enough to occasion the creation of entire websites devoted to the subject.
However, the clamor that surrounded the enumeration seemed to have evaporated once the Census itself was completed. Which is unfortunate, since the statistical data disclosed by the latest Census reveal a troubling explosion in the American population due largely, although not completely, to our country’s extremely liberal immigration policies.
As Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies points out in this illuminating press release, the explosive population growth we’ve experienced over the past decade has led to a series of foreseeable consequences, none of them good. Overburdened traffic arteries, an artificially tight housing market in urban centers and suburban sprawl from those same cities, decaying infrastructure and increasingly taxed municipal and state budgets. These have all resulted from a persistent commitment to immigration policies the American public overwhelmingly rejects.
In the coming year the federal government will release more demographic data uncovered by its latest Census, but what can’t be disputed even at this early point is that mass immigration has irrevocably changed the nature of the United States, and that the challenges we face as a country increase exponentially with every year that our government’s policy of unfettered immigration continues.
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