Understanding Immigration with Gumballs (YouTube)

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Other posters have been talking about the data presented in this video for a while, but this is the first time I've seen a video of it.

It's worth a watch, whether you agree or not.

[Jenn! 918]

Is this really supposed to be surprising? The looks on the faces in the audience were amusing. I guess the concept of population growth does not hit home unless gumballs are used for demonstrative purposes.

[Yiyi and Chris 0]

[peejay 327]

The USA had a population of 200 million in 1970 before the effects of the huge immigration increase legislated by Teddy Kennedy and crew began kicking in. The U.S. has nearly 305 million people today. The population is projected to hit 400 million in 2039 and 439 million in 2050 if this madness continues. The third world does this through third word birthrates. The USA does this through over immigration. This madness is imposed on us by our government at the behest of the corporations and to a lesser extent by the ethno-centric lobby that controls congress. Pure greed, malfeasance, corruption, and selfish self serving motives. The American people did not buy into this lunacy when this legislation was enacted in 1965. The American people were and have been lied to from the get go on this. We were told this would not happen and it has.

The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster

By Ben Johnson

FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, December 10, 2002

America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a spasm of sentimentality on the Right and lies on the Left, we opened the borders.

Born of liberal ideology, the 1965 bill abolished the national origins quota system that had regulated the ethnic composition of immigration in fair proportion to each group's existing presence in the population. In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations saw these ethnic quotas as an archaic form of chauvinism. Moreover, as Cold Warriors facing charges of "racism" and "imperialism," they found the system rhetorically embarrassing. The record of debate over this seismic change in immigration policy reveals that left-wingers, in their visceral flight to attack "discrimination," did not reveal the consequences of their convictions. Instead, their spokesmen set out to assuage concerned traditionalists with a litany of lies and wishful thinking.

Chief among national concerns was total numeric immigration. Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting "the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much." Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone.

The 1965 "reform" reoriented policy away from European ethnic groups, yet implemented numbers similar to 1950's rates in an attempt to keep immigration under control. However, Congressmen managed to miss a loophole large enough to allow a 300 percent in immigration, because they did not take into account two "sentimental" provisions within the bill. Immediate family members of U.S. citizens and political refugees face no quotas. Their likely impact on the nation was ignored, presumably because aiding families and the dispossessed cast the right emotive glow.

Yet leftists could sound like hard-nosed defenders of the national interest when necessary. In urging passage of the 1965 bill, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, D-New York, wrote in a letter to the New York Times, "The time has come for us to insist that the quota system be replaced by the merit system." As if merit is the operative principle along the Rio Grande today! Similarly, Representative Robert Sweeney, D-Ohio, insisted the bill was "more beneficial to us." In fact, the 1965 bill made "family reunification" - including extended family members - the key criterion for eligibility. These new citizens may in turn send for their families, creating an endless cycle known to sociologists as the immigration chain. The qualifications of immigrants have predictably fallen. Hispanic immigrants, by far the largest contingent, are eight times more likely than natives to lack a ninth-grade education, and less than half as likely to have a college degree.

The bill did not end discrimination based on what President John F. Kennedy called "the accident of birth." (This of course begs the question of whether birth within the nation, the basis of common national community, is just an accident, but let that pass for now.) It de facto grossly discriminates in favor of Mexicans and certain other groups.

Not only has the bill failed in its stated purpose, it has realized many of its critics' worst nightmares. Concern mounted that this bill would radically change the ethnic composition of the United States. Such things were still considered legitimate concerns in 1965, in the same Congress that had just passed the key civil rights legislation of the 1960's.

Specific influx predictions that were made seem tragicomic today. Senator Robert Kennedy predicted a total of 5,000 immigrants from India; his successor as Attorney General, Nicholas Katzenbach, foresaw a meager 8,000. Actual immigration from India has exceeded by 1,000-times Robert Kennedy's prediction.

Senator Hiram Fong, R-Hawaii, calculated that "the people from [Asia] will never reach 1 percent of the population." Even in 1965, people were willing to admit that we have a reasonable interest in not being inundated by culturally alien foreigners, and it was considered acceptable to say so on the floor of the Senate. Try that today, even as a supposed conservative! (Asians currently account for three percent of the population, and will swell to near 10 percent by 2050 if present trends continue.)

The only remaining Congressman who had voted on the 1920s quotas, Representative Emanuel Celler, D-New York, insisted, "There will not be, comparatively speaking, many Asians or Africans entering this country." Today, the number of Asians and Africans entering this country each year exceeds the annual average total number of immigrants during the 1960s.

Yet the largest ethnic shift has occurred within the ranks of Hispanics. Despite Robert Kennedy's promise that, "Immigration from any single country would be limited to 10 percent of the total," Mexico sent 20 percent of last year's immigrants. Hispanics have made up nearly half of all immigrants since 1968. After a 30-year experiment with open borders, whites no longer constitute a majority of Californians or residents of New York City.

As immigrants pour in, native Americans feel themselves pushed out. In 1965, Senator Hugh Scott, R-Pennsylvania, opined, "I doubt if this bill will really be the cause of crowding the present Americans out of the 50 states." Yet half-a-million native Californians fled the state in the last decade, while its total population increased by three million, mostly immigrants. This phenomenon also holds true in microcosm. In tiny Ligonier, Indiana, (population 4,357) 914 Hispanics moved in and 216 native Americans departed during the 1990s. Hispanics now outnumber the Amish as the area's dominant minority.

Thirty-plus years of immigration at historic levels have also had an economic impact on America. In 1965, Ted Kennedy confidently predicted, "No immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge." However, political refugees qualify for public assistance upon setting foot on U.S. soil. The exploding Somali refugee population of Lewiston, Maine, (pop. 36,000) is largely welfare-dependent. Likewise, 2,900 of Wausau, Wisconsin's 4,200 Hmong refugees receive public assistance. In all, 21 percent of immigrants receive public assistance, whereas 14 percent of natives do so. Immigrants are 50 percent more likely than natives to live in poverty.

Ted Kennedy also claimed the 1965 amendments "will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." Teddy cannot have it both ways: either the immigrant will remain unemployed and become a public charge, or he will take a job that otherwise could have gone to a native American. What is presently undisputed - except by the same economic analysts at Wired magazine and the Wall Street Journal who gave us dot-com stocks - is that immigrant participation lowers wages.

Despite the overwhelming assurances of the bill's supporters, the 1965 Immigration Reform Act has remade society into the image its critics most feared. Immigration levels topping a million a year will increase U.S. population to 400 million within 50 years. Meanwhile, exponents of multiculturalism insist new arrivals make no effort to assimilate; to do so would be "genocidal," a notion that makes a mockery of real genocides. Instead, long-forgotten grudges are nursed against the white populace. Native citizens take to flight as the neighborhoods around them, the norms in their hometowns, are debased for the convenience of low-paid immigrants and well-heeled businessmen. All the while, indigenous paychecks drop through lower wages and higher taxes collected to provide social services for immigrants. And this only takes into account legal immigration.

These results were unforeseen by liberals easily led about by their emotions. Others were not so blind. Jewish organizations had labored since 1924 to unweave national origins quotas by admitting family members on non-quota visas. The B'nai B'rith Women and the American Council for Judaism Philanthropic Fund, among other Jewish organizations, supported this reform legislation while it was yet in subcommittee in the winter of 1965. Roman Catholics had the twin motivations of still-evolving social justice doctrine and the potential windfall of a mass influx of co-religionists from Latin America. Other organized minorities pressured for increased immigration to benefit relatives in their homelands. The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild joined the chorus. Further, the Communist Party USA supported higher immigration on the grounds that it destabilizes working Americans.

Americans must realize demographic trends are not inevitable, the product of mysterious forces beyond their control. Today's population is the result of yesterday's immigration policy, and that policy is as clearly broken as its backers' assurances were facetious. A rational policy will only come about when native Americans place the national interest above liberal howls of "prejudice" and "tribalism."

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The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild joined the chorus. Further, the Communist Party USA supported higher immigration on the grounds that it destabilizes working Americans.

wow, they left out the weatherman/.//and the sds.....biased..the gop has a large role in the current mess..bush..mccain..obama and the dems. share the same views.

[peejay 327]

The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild joined the chorus. Further, the Communist Party USA supported higher immigration on the grounds that it destabilizes working Americans.

wow, they left out the weatherman/.//and the sds.....biased..the gop has a large role in the current mess..bush..mccain..obama and the dems. share the same views.

Yes...along with the illegal alien cheerleaders. Anybody that floats over the river on an innertube or lies their way in on a tourist visa needs to be given US citizenship and a voter registration card.

We know the drill already. Carry on.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Why are we letting these gum balls immigrate? Can't we produce them here?

I love how they show several different ethnicities in the crowd. I especially love the guy who looked like a Native American. They showed him at least 2 times. He's like "Tell me about it Whitey".

I didn't catch the waif like American child though. I guess they forgot. They also forgot Vanna White to place his cards for him.

Edited August 14, 2008 by WideAwakeInTheUSA

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The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action, the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild joined the chorus. Further, the Communist Party USA supported higher immigration on the grounds that it destabilizes working Americans.

wow, they left out the weatherman/.//and the sds.....biased..the gop has a large role in the current mess..bush..mccain..obama and the dems. share the same views.

I think its all self-explanatory. The corporations and the ethno-centric lobby that controls Congress are to blame. Get that! An ethno-centric lobby that CONTROLS Congress.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

now that i'm home, i can see the video. i've seen it before (a year or so ago i think it was), but it's very compelling and it should be thought provoking to everyone.

[Mononoke28 135]

So this morning I heard that minorities will be the majority by the year 2050. I bet the white, republican elderly nearly crapped their pants when they saw this.

That's a pretty neat graph this guy has there with all the red and the green. I wonder what it looked like back in say the early 1800 with the green representing the Native Americans and the red every European fool and their mother who came here looking for a better life. It would look twice as big, I'm sure.

Diana

[Krikit 1,164]

OMG, there are so many holes in that guy's hypothesis it isn't funny. That looks like it was presented at least 10 years ago. Wonder how it compares to actuals now.

Oh, and.... is there a prize for guessing the correct number of gumballs?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

OMG, there are so many holes in that guy's hypothesis it isn't funny. That looks like it was presented at least 10 years ago. Wonder how it compares to actuals now.

Oh, and.... is there a prize for guessing the correct number of gumballs?

Prize:

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To be honest it does remind me of the natural selection game we used to play in Freshman biology with beans of different sizes on a table top. Different sizes and shapes of spoons would pick up different beans.

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I can't beleive he has you all fooled so easily. Those are not gumballs...they're jawbreakers!

Wake people, before it's too late!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

How does immigration destroy the social fabric of this country if that fabric was and is continually made of immigrants? Who gets to stake claim in Nativism? Third generation and beyond? Or can First and Second generations can count themselves as natives?