1 00:00:07,232 --> 00:00:10,340 Some people say that mass immigration into the United States 2 00:00:10,402 --> 00:00:12,717 can help reduce world poverty. 3 00:00:12,767 --> 00:00:14,118 Is that true? 4 00:00:14,118 --> 00:00:16,982 Well, no its not and let me show you why. 5 00:00:17,044 --> 00:00:22,492 This gumball represents the 1 million legal immigrants that the United States 6 00:00:22,492 --> 00:00:26,661 has taken every year on average since 1990. 7 00:00:26,661 --> 00:00:31,201 Now who in the world deserves our humanitarian compassion? 8 00:00:31,201 --> 00:00:34,200 The World Bank has one measure of the desperately poor of the world. 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,441 They make less than $2 a day. 10 00:00:36,441 --> 00:00:40,111 And how many people make less than $2 a day in the world? 11 00:00:40,111 --> 00:00:42,246 We'll start with Africa. 12 00:00:42,246 --> 00:00:50,859 In Africa alone there are 650 million people who make less than $2 a day, 13 00:00:50,859 --> 00:00:53,359 650 million. 14 00:00:53,359 --> 00:01:00,262 And in India another 890 million people are desperately poor. 15 00:01:00,262 --> 00:01:06,679 China adds another 480 million people making less than $2 a day 16 00:01:06,679 --> 00:01:12,811 and unfortunately the rest of Asia has a heartbreaking 810 million people who 17 00:01:12,811 --> 00:01:17,481 the World Bank says make less than $2 a day. 18 00:01:17,481 --> 00:01:24,626 And finally there's 105 million of Latin America's population that are desperately poor. 19 00:01:24,626 --> 00:01:29,524 All total the World Bank says that there 3 billion people in the world, 20 00:01:29,524 --> 00:01:34,331 3 billion people who are desperately poor making less than $2 a day. 21 00:01:34,331 --> 00:01:36,234 That's 3 thousand gumballs 22 00:01:36,234 --> 00:01:42,671 and every year we take a million and suggest that we've somehow made a 23 00:01:42,671 --> 00:01:45,393 humanitarian difference. 24 00:01:45,393 --> 00:01:51,180 Of course, we don't pull our immigrants from these desperately poor populations,do we? 25 00:01:51,180 --> 00:01:57,354 These people are too poor, too sick, too disconnected to make it here as immigrants. 26 00:01:57,354 --> 00:02:01,858 We tend to pull our immigrants out of the better off poor of the world 27 00:02:01,858 --> 00:02:07,363 and Mexico tends to define the type of immigrant we bring here because the plurality of people 28 00:02:07,363 --> 00:02:11,432 come here from Mexico and Mexico is poor. 29 00:02:11,432 --> 00:02:18,243 How many people in the world live in countries that have average incomes lower than that of Mexico? 30 00:02:18,243 --> 00:02:23,053 The World Bank tells us that that number is these 3 billion 31 00:02:23,053 --> 00:02:29,753 plus another 2.6 billion people. 32 00:02:29,753 --> 00:02:43,099 5.6 billion people in the world who live in countries with average incomes below that of Mexico. 33 00:02:43,099 --> 00:02:45,636 That's 5,600 gumballs. 34 00:02:45,636 --> 00:02:52,814 So what is it the elites are telling us? They're telling us when we take this 1 million immigrants 35 00:02:52,814 --> 00:02:57,745 that we somehow or another are tackling world poverty 36 00:02:57,745 --> 00:03:01,484 and we have to do it regardless of the effect on our unemployed, the working poor, 37 00:03:01,484 --> 00:03:03,350 the most vulnerable members of our society. 38 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:06,254 Regardless of the effect on our natural resources. 39 00:03:06,254 --> 00:03:10,197 Even if we went by the most radical proposals in Washington, 40 00:03:10,197 --> 00:03:19,224 which are to actually double our immigration to 2 million a year, 41 00:03:19,224 --> 00:03:23,306 which would totally overwhelm our physical, natural, and social infrastructure 42 00:03:23,306 --> 00:03:26,477 we couldn't make a noticeable difference 43 00:03:26,477 --> 00:03:31,223 and we may be really hurting the impoverished people of the world because 44 00:03:31,223 --> 00:03:39,423 the million that we do take are among the most energetic, often the better educated, certainly the most 45 00:03:39,423 --> 00:03:46,529 dissatisfied people that if they did not immigrate would be the agents for change to improve the lot of 46 00:03:46,529 --> 00:03:54,680 all the people in these countries. The true heroes in the global humanitarian field are the people in these countries 47 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:02,078 who have the wherewithal to immigrate to another country but instead stay in their countries to apply their skills to help 48 00:04:02,078 --> 00:04:03,976 their fellow countrymen. 49 00:04:03,976 --> 00:04:12,186 Unfortunately, our immigration system tends to entice these very type of people to abandon their countrymen. 50 00:04:12,186 --> 00:04:18,562 The impossibility of making even a dent is actually worse than it looks here 51 00:04:18,562 --> 00:04:30,173 because last year when we took 1 million immigrants, these countries added births over deaths 52 00:04:30,173 --> 00:04:35,558 80 million more people into the impoverished population. 53 00:04:35,558 --> 00:04:41,047 And this year Congress is bringing in a million legal immigrants 54 00:04:41,047 --> 00:04:48,759 and this year according to the United Nations these countries are expected to add another 80 million people 55 00:04:48,759 --> 00:04:55,644 and next year you can be quite sure that Congress unless stopped by the American voters will bring in 56 00:04:55,644 --> 00:05:05,075 another million immigrants and these countries unfortunately will be adding another 80 million people 57 00:05:05,075 --> 00:05:07,555 into these impoverished nations. 58 00:05:07,555 --> 00:05:14,651 We could take 5 million a year but we'd never get ahead of what's happening in these countries. 59 00:05:14,651 --> 00:05:16,320 Not in this century. 60 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:25,895 Don't you see? Immigration can never be an effective or significant way to deal with the suffering people of the world. 61 00:05:25,895 --> 00:05:29,794 They have to be helped where they live. 62 00:05:29,794 --> 00:05:39,145 99.9% of them will never be able to immigrate to a rich country. There's no hope for that. 63 00:05:39,145 --> 00:05:43,777 They have to bloom where they're planted; the only place that 99.9% of these people can be helped 64 00:05:43,777 --> 99:59:59,999 is where they live. Let's help them there.