Beyond that, welfare participation now seems to increase the longer immigrants stay in the country. To be blunt, there is simply no economic justification for our current immigration policy, and the cultural consequences are enormous, and often enormously bad. Right now 25 percent of the prisoners in our federal penitentiaries are immigrants. Thirty five to forty percent of the heroin that comes into this country is smuggled in by Nigerians, and and U.S. law enforcement officials estimate that an incredible 75 percent of all Nigerians in this country are engaged in some sort of systematic fraud. The list goes on and on, with different ethnic groups tending to specialize in different crimes.
Tuberculosis is on the rise again, mostly due to immigration.
Exotic tropical diseases are starting to be reported in the U.S., again due to immigration. Public health officials estimate that 10,000 people would probably die within months if yellow fever, endemic in Africa and South America, were to reestablish itself in New Orleans. Again, the list goes on. Consider the consequence for partisan politics. This is perhaps the main reason that so many on the Multiculturalist Left react to calls for immigration reform with outraged accusations of racism, nativism, and xenophobia.