150 Million Would Move to U.S. If They Could

 

ENLARGED

Oh, wonderful, let them all come right away..........

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Enforcement of the nation's immigration laws is crucial to the future of America due to a "fundamental fact," according to the Center for Immigration Studies — many more people would like to relocate here than the country could reasonably absorb.

"Unless this country becomes a very undesirable place to live and work, there will always be more people wishing to come here than there will be available legal immigration slots," the CIS states in a new report.

"That means [the country] has no other choice than to think seriously about immigration enforcement."

The CIS points to a Gallup poll of more than 450,000 adults in 151 countries conducted over a recent two-year period. It projected that about 13 percent of the world's adults, more than 640 million people, would like to leave their country permanently, and about 150 million of them would prefer to relocate in the United States.

The second most favored country people would like to move to is the United Kingdom — 45 million adults cited the U.K. — followed by Canada (42 million), France (32 million), Saudi Arabia (31 million), Australia and Germany (both 26 million).

Potential migrants who would like to permanently settle in America are most likely to come from populous countries such as China (22 million), Nigeria (15 million), India (10 million), and Bangladesh (8 million), according to Gallup.

Interestingly, only 5 million adults in Mexico say they would like to immigrate to the United States.
In terms of percentage of the population that would like to migrate permanently to America, Liberia leads the way — 37 percent of adults would move to the United States if they could, followed by Sierra Leone (30 percent), Dominican Republic (26 percent), and Haiti (24 percent).

Potential migrants aspire to move to another country "for the simple reason that they are in search of opportunity," Gallup observes.

But the CIS cautions: "Americans by nature are open and friendly people. This creates an understandable presumption of empathy for the millions of illegal aliens now living and working in this country.

"Yet the United States is also a country that takes 'playing by the rules' seriously. We don't generally reward or support cheating, taking unfair advantage, breaking rules and laws for your own benefit, or engaging in self-interested behavior at the expense of the communities of which you are, or want to become, a part.

"Illegal aliens do all of those things and more."