What is causing this resurgence in hate and making so many white nationalists and supremacists so mad at immigrants and people of color in the United States that they are ready to kill again?
The reasons is that the black and brown population of the U.S., which many of these hate-filled beings believe strongly is “their country”, is growing much faster than their own white population. Donald Trump’s mainstreaming of such xenophobia has only emboldened the supremacists and nationalists to take matters in their own hands to stop the alleged “caravans”, “invasion”, “animals” and “rapists” which, as Trump claims, are coming to take over “their country”.
FACTS
Here are 10 facts from the U.S. Census that are fueling this fear and hate:
1: The U.S. has more immigrants than any other country in the world. Today, about one in four children born in the U.S. under 18 have at least one foreign-born parent, primarily from Asia and Latin America.
2: The foreign-born population currently stands at over 13.7 percent as of the latest data from 2017. That’s 44.5 million people, which represents a more than four-fold increase since 1960, when only 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S.
Between 1991 and 2000, over nine million immigrants entered the country legally.
3: Since 2010, the increase in the number of people from Asia - 2.6 million - was more than double the 1.2 million who came from Latin America.
4: The U.S.-born children of immigrants or the second-generation Americans make up another estimated 12 percent of the nation’s population. By 2050, these two groups could account for 19 percent and 18 percent of the population, respectively, according to Pew Research Center projections.
WHO VOTES?
5: There are some 20.7 million naturalized immigrants in the U.S. who have the right to vote and decide elections. This does not include the second or third generation immigrants. By 2020, that figure is projected to rise to 21.2 million.
About 29 million of them are Latinos – foreign and second and third generation – who were eligible to vote in 2018, up from approximately 25 million in 2014. In 2018 alone, Hispanic and Asian voter turnout rates increased to about 40 percent, a 13-percentage point increase over 2014.
Meanwhile, voter turnout rates for whites (57.5 percent) and blacks (51.4 percent) have increased by just 11.7 and 10.8 percentage points, respectively, since 2014.
And while whites continue to make up the vast majority of voters (72.8 percent) and their overall numbers continue to grow as a share of U.S. voters, there has been a 3.5 percentage point drop among white voters since 2014.
In some states, foreign-born voters are already capable of deciding elections.
6: Although the white working class played a significant role in the 2016 election, demographic trends mean they will see their influence decline in future electoral contests.
Through 2024, the share of the electorate that is white is projected to decline by 4.4 percent.
7: Immigrants are projected to drive future growth in the U.S. working-age population through at least 2035.
8: Lawful immigrants made up the majority of the immigrant workforce, at 21.2 million.
9: Of the 15 states with the highest concentration of immigrants, all but three - Florida, Texas and Arizona - voted for Clinton in the 2016 presidential race while many of the states with low and moderate concentrations of foreign-born people voted for Trump.
10: The number of immigrants living in the U.S. is projected to almost double by 2065, causing Trump and many Republicans to sound alarms about immigration.
