2001 Abortions 1,303,000 Legal Immigrants 1,064,318

NRLC Abortions 2001 1,303,000

FAIRUS 2001 Legal Immigrants 1,064,318

This shows that immigration is substitution for births.  If we stopped immigration completely, legal and illegal, we would just balance the effect of abortions.

CATEGORIES	CEILINGS	2001 ADMISSIONS
Relatives		676,144
Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Unlimited	443,984
Unmarried Adult Children of U.S. Citizens	23,400	27,098
Spouses & Unmarried Adult Children of Legal Residents	114,200	112,260
Married Adult Children of U.S. Citizens	23,400	24,878
Siblings of U.S. Citizens	65,000	67,907
Legalization Dependents		37
Employment-Based Preferences		179,195
Priority Workers	40,040	41,801
Professionally Exceptional	40,040	42,620
Skilled Workers and Professionals	40,040	86,058
Special Immigrants	9,940	8,523
Investors	9,940	193
Other		208,979
Lottery	55,000	42,015
Refugees	90,000	97,305
Asylees	10,000	11,201
Miscellaneous		58,458
LEGAL IMMIGRANTS, TOTAL (est.)		1,064,318

Illegal, who knows. Could be 1 to 2 million per year. Total here could be 10 to 30 million. These numbers are always far more than anyone imagines. 1986 Amnesty brought in far more people than even the most extreme criticis predicted.

==Brimelow:

And if there is a looming labor shortage (hotly disputed), it could presumably be countered by natalist policies—encouraging Americans to step up their below-replacement birthrate. Even the current high immigration inflow is exceeded by the 1.6 million abortions in the U.S. each year.

“Time to Rethink Immigration?”

by Peter Brimelow
from National Review, June 22, 1992

Mr. Brimelow is Editor at VDARE.com.

http://www.vdare.com/pb/time_to_rethink2.htm

 http://www.vdare.com/misc/070212_smith.htm
February 12, 2007
“U.S. Chamber Urging Country On Rome’s Path To Disaster”

I find it ironic that the US Chamber of Commerce is promoting a report “America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future,” [PDF] (press release here). The report, by ETS’s Policy Information Center, contends that the convergence of three forces—inadequate literacy skills among large segments of our population, the continuing evolution of our economy and the nation’s job structure, and an ongoing shift in the demographic profile of our country driven by the highest immigration rates in almost a century—will have “dire consequences for America”.

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By Steve Smith