It is crucial to the advancement of our society to look at the numbers that or trusted experts report. Roy Beck is an immigration journalist and expert. He teamed up with NumbersU.S.A. to create a visual representation of the effects that immigration is having on our country and world as a whole. To illustrate a point that our U.S. immigration policies are failing the world he uses the help of gum balls and glass jars of various sizes. Each gum ball represents one million people. Each jar is of portionable size to its given country’s population. According to the study, the United States has taken in one million immigrants a year from around the world since the year 1990. People are under the impression that by taking in more people the United States will help substantially in the fight to abolish the most impoverished people. The reality is in fact heartbreaking. There are approximately 650 million people in Africa living in the poorest sector of poverty in the world, which has been determined at an average income of under $2 per day. India has about 890 million people in this category, South America has 105 million, China is at about 450 million people, and the rest of Asia compiles to be another 890 million human beings. Combined there is roughly 3 billion people desperately poor in the world. The reality is that even a full 1% of people in these conditions will ever make it over to an affluent country, like the United States. So, the united States brings in a million people every year. These extremely poor people mentioned above will not likely be any part of this one million immigrants. The united States wants to take the best that they can get from these countries. Even when the united States does bring in a million people, the poorest areas of the world are growing rapidly, adding roughly another 5 million people to their population. The United States is really doing a disservice to all of thee people by enticing the greatest minds from anywhere on the globe to come live and experience it for themselves. The real heroes are the people who stay in their country and help advance the people there to a higher state of living. It is an extraordinarily complex problem. It’s easy to feel helpless when you know there is not much you can do about the death tolls that families experience every second of the day.
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