Former President Bill Clinton said at a press conference on Sunday that the United States needs more immigrants to replace the children Americans don't have.
“The United States doesn't have enough babies to sustain its population, so we need vetted immigrants to work for us,” Clinton said at a fish fry in Fort Valley, Georgia.
he repeated the claim Campaign canceled again On Oct. 14, he said, “Our birth rate is the lowest it's been in over 100 years. We're not at replacement level. That means if we want our economy to continue to grow, we've got to get somebody here.” It means not to be.”
But mass immigration to the United States lowers family wages, drives up housing prices, and distracts national leaders from enacting policies that help Americans have more babies. Making it difficult to have enough babies.
Clinton's comments came as she sought to excuse the influx of immigrants, even though it is inevitable that some immigrants, such as Laken Riley, a young unmarried woman from Georgia, will kill Americans.
President Joe Biden's immigration relief policies, which have brought in about 10 million legal, illegal, semi-legal and temporary immigrants to the United States, have kept wages flat and house prices up about 20%.
Unsurprisingly, the US birth rate fell to an all-time low in 2023, according to an announcement in August. report According to CNN:
The U.S. birth rate in 2023 will drop another 3% from the previous year to a historic low of about 55 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, according to final data released Tuesday by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. It became. Just under 3.6 million babies were born last year, about 68,000 fewer than the previous year.
Since 2007, when the birth rate was at its most recent high, the number of births has fallen by 17% and the general fertility rate has fallen by 21%, according to a new report.
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A series of demographic changes, such as people marrying later and less frequently, spending more years in school, and taking longer to become financially stable before landing a regular job, to name a few. This is consistent with trends in birth rates, he said. [Sarah Hayford, director of the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University].
“As housing costs rise, birth rates fall…Indeed, it's such an obvious fact that it's not even necessarily something to be discussed anymore,” demographer Lyman Stone wrote in November 2023. told Breitbart News.
If the government increases productivity by reducing immigration, Americans' birth rates could also rise.
clinton admitted “If we want the economy to grow, we've got to get someone here. Somebody, some genius in artificial intelligence, is going to figure out a way for us all to grow without having to work,” he said Monday as a productivity alternative. Unless we find out.”
But Clinton prefers immigrants to American births. standard Within the Democratic Party, the main reason is that the party benefits from an influx of border-hating, pro-immigration progressives and an influx of low-wage workers, government-funded consumers and apartment-share renters. This is because it is controlled by a coalition of investors.
In November 2022, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) subordinated American families to immigrant welfare.
There is a shortage of workers. Our population is not able to reproduce on its own at the same level as before. The only way we can have a great future in America is by welcoming and embracing immigrants and dreamers and all of them. our ultimate goal to help dreamers [illegals who were brought in by their parents] All 11 million people will have a path to citizenship. Or no matter how many people are here illegally. [Emphasis added].
The same substitution pattern, where more migration leads to fewer local births, is observed in several developed countries.
For example, Britain's two establishment parties are importing record numbers of immigrants into the UK, ensuring a significant drop in births. In February, the UK guardian newspaper reported:
Activists have warned that “childbirth has become a luxury” after it was revealed that the birth rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1939.
formal National Statistics Office figures (ONS) showed that the 'total fertility rate', calculated based on birth rates in different age groups, had fallen to 1.49 children per woman in 2022.
This is well below the ratio of 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population without significant immigration. The total number of births in 2022 was 605,479, down 3.1% on the previous year and the lowest number since 2002, according to the ONS.
Canada's birth rate hit a record low for the second year in a row in 2023, according to Statistics Canada.
According to the agency, the country's birth rate is 1.26 children per woman, with British Columbia having the lowest birth rate in the country at 1 child per woman.
Surveys show Americans want more children.
“We find that all estimates of ideal or desired fertility, including hard minimum estimates from adjusted GSS data, far exceed actual fertility.”, 2018 report by Family Studies Research Institute Said. The report adds:
What this comparison reveals is that whether using intended or ideal fertility, women can achieve more than they have ever achieved or could achieve. They report a strong desire to have children, and this has been going on for a long time. Cut the data any way you want, use whatever metrics float your boat, and the ship of American fertility is sinking as women steadily fall short of the outcomes they claim they want or intend. you will notice.
Long hours, low wages, inconsistent employment, high childcare costs, poor access to credit, burdensome loans, too few potential husbands — choose your own problem — More and more women are simply lowering their expectations of their husbands. My family continues to believe things like: 2.3 children is ideal for them [emphasis added].
Mr. Clinton had one child with his wife, Hillary Clinton.
