0:00:07.232,0:00:10.340 Some people say that mass immigration [br]into the United States 0:00:10.402,0:00:12.717 can help reduce world poverty. 0:00:12.767,0:00:14.118 Is that true? 0:00:14.118,0:00:16.982 Well, no its not and let me show you why. 0:00:17.044,0:00:22.492 This gumball represents the 1 million [br]legal immigrants that the United States 0:00:22.492,0:00:26.661 has taken every year on average since 1990. 0:00:26.661,0:00:31.201 Now who in the world deserves our[br]humanitarian compassion? 0:00:31.201,0:00:34.200 The World Bank has one measure of the[br]desperately poor of the world. 0:00:34.200,0:00:36.441 They make less than $2 a day. 0:00:36.441,0:00:40.111 And how many people make less than $2[br]a day in the world? 0:00:40.111,0:00:42.246 We'll start with Africa. 0:00:42.246,0:00:50.859 In Africa alone there are 650 million[br]people who make less than $2 a day, 0:00:50.859,0:00:53.359 650 million. 0:00:53.359,0:01:00.262 And in India another 890 million people[br]are desperately poor. 0:01:00.262,0:01:06.679 China adds another 480 million people[br]making less than $2 a day 0:01:06.679,0:01:12.811 and unfortunately the rest of Asia has a[br]heartbreaking 810 million people who 0:01:12.811,0:01:17.481 the World Bank says make less than $2 a day. 0:01:17.481,0:01:24.626 And finally there's 105 million of Latin America's[br]population that are desperately poor. 0:01:24.626,0:01:29.524 All total the World Bank says that there[br]3 billion people in the world, 0:01:29.524,0:01:34.331 3 billion people who are desperately poor[br]making less than $2 a day. 0:01:34.331,0:01:36.234 That's 3 thousand gumballs 0:01:36.234,0:01:42.671 and every year we take a million and[br]suggest that we've somehow made a 0:01:42.671,0:01:45.393 humanitarian difference. 0:01:45.393,0:01:51.180 Of course, we don't pull our immigrants[br]from these desperately poor populations,do we? 0:01:51.180,0:01:57.354 These people are too poor, too sick, too[br]disconnected to make it here as immigrants. 0:01:57.354,0:02:01.858 We tend to pull our immigrants out of the[br]better off poor of the world 0:02:01.858,0:02:07.363 and Mexico tends to define the type of immigrant[br]we bring here because the plurality of people 0:02:07.363,0:02:11.432 come here from Mexico and Mexico is poor. 0:02:11.432,0:02:18.243 How many people in the world live in countries[br]that have average incomes lower than that of Mexico? 0:02:18.243,0:02:23.053 The World Bank tells us that that number is[br]these 3 billion 0:02:23.053,0:02:29.753 plus another 2.6 billion people. 0:02:29.753,0:02:43.099 5.6 billion people in the world who live in countries[br]with average incomes below that of Mexico. 0:02:43.099,0:02:45.636 That's 5,600 gumballs. 0:02:45.636,0:02:52.814 So what is it the elites are telling us? They're telling[br]us when we take this 1 million immigrants 0:02:52.814,0:02:57.745 that we somehow or another are tackling[br]world poverty 0:02:57.745,0:03:01.484 and we have to do it regardless of the effect[br]on our unemployed, the working poor, 0:03:01.484,0:03:03.350 the most vulnerable members of our society. 0:03:03.350,0:03:06.254 Regardless of the effect on our natural resources. 0:03:06.254,0:03:10.197 Even if we went by the most radical [br]proposals in Washington, 0:03:10.197,0:03:19.224 which are to actually double our immigration[br]to 2 million a year, 0:03:19.224,0:03:23.306 which would totally overwhelm our physical,[br]natural, and social infrastructure 0:03:23.306,0:03:26.477 we couldn't make a noticeable difference 0:03:26.477,0:03:31.223 and we may be really hurting the impoverished[br]people of the world because 0:03:31.223,0:03:39.423 the million that we do take are among the most energetic,[br]often the better educated, certainly the most 0:03:39.423,0:03:46.529 dissatisfied people that if they did not immigrate[br]would be the agents for change to improve the lot of 0:03:46.529,0:03:54.680 all the people in these countries. The true heroes in the[br]global humanitarian field are the people in these countries 0:03:54.680,0:04:02.078 who have the wherewithal to immigrate to another country[br]but instead stay in their countries to apply their skills to help 0:04:02.078,0:04:03.976 their fellow countrymen. 0:04:03.976,0:04:12.186 Unfortunately, our immigration system tends to entice[br]these very type of people to abandon their countrymen. 0:04:12.186,0:04:18.562 The impossibility of making even a dent is actually worse[br]than it looks here 0:04:18.562,0:04:30.173 because last year when we took 1 million immigrants,[br]these countries added births over deaths 0:04:30.173,0:04:35.558 80 million more people into the impoverished population. 0:04:35.558,0:04:41.047 And this year Congress is bringing in a million[br]legal immigrants 0:04:41.047,0:04:48.759 and this year according to the United Nations these[br]countries are expected to add another 80 million people 0:04:48.759,0:04:55.644 and next year you can be quite sure that Congress[br]unless stopped by the American voters will bring in 0:04:55.644,0:05:05.075 another million immigrants and these countries[br]unfortunately will be adding another 80 million people 0:05:05.075,0:05:07.555 into these impoverished nations. 0:05:07.555,0:05:14.651 We could take 5 million a year but we'd never[br]get ahead of what's happening in these countries. 0:05:14.651,0:05:16.320 Not in this century. 0:05:16.320,0:05:25.895 Don't you see? Immigration can never be an effective[br]or significant way to deal with the suffering people of the world. 0:05:25.895,0:05:29.794 They have to be helped where they live. 0:05:29.794,0:05:39.145 99.9% of them will never be able to immigrate[br]to a rich country. There's no hope for that. 0:05:39.145,0:05:43.777 They have to bloom where they're planted;[br]the only place that 99.9% of these people can be helped 0:05:43.777,9:59:59.000 is where they live. Let's help them there.