Demographic Tsunami:
Massive Ethnic Shift
in U.S. Underway

n unprecedented tidal wave of immigration from Latin America, Asia, and Africa is changing the U.S. What is now a nation of mostly European descendants soon will become a nation of mostly Latin, Carribean, and Third World people in the first decades of the 21st century.

"The shift is well under way," reported Heather Dewar of Knight Ridder News Service. "If it continues at its current pace, by the time today's toddlers reach middle age, every American will be a member of a minority group."

"We've never had this kind of diversity before, and neither has anybody else," said sociologist Philip Nyden of Loyola University. "The big question is, what kind of society is America going to be?"

Whether the American people want to change the nation's ethnic make-up is a question they were never asked.

Driven by an ideology that justifies their economic and financial interests, American elites in business, politics, and academia have embarked on a course to change America's ethnic make-up.

"We want to become a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society," said President Bill Clinton in 1997. At a White House meeting with journalists, he called overturning America's traditionally restrictive immigration policies as "a great revolution" that "will prove we literally can live without. . .having a dominant European culture."

During his 2000 presidential campaign, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged to continue that revolution if elected president.

"We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world," Bush told a cheering Miami audience. "We're a major source of Latin music, journalism, and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago, or West New York, New Jersey... You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change. Some have praised it, and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America."

Give or take a decade at current immigration rates, Americans of European descent will be reduced to less than half of the population by 2050, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Immigrants and their descendants will eventually constitute the majority of the U.S. population. [Census projections]

That means America's 300 year-old European-derived culture is not likely to survive. More than 90 percent of the immigration fueling the demographic revolution is from the Third World where the customs, habits, and values of the people are radically different from America's historic, European-derived cultural pattern.

Current immigration flows are the result of policies adopted by Congress from 1965 to 1996. Congress not only tripled legal immigration, but granted amnesty to more than 3 million illegal aliens.

Today, at least 1.3 million legal and illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. each year. Immigrants and their children already account for two-thirds of America's annual population growth, which is increasing the population from 280 million today to 392 million by 2050.

Immigrants are already a potent political force in elections and legislation. As ethnic advocacy groups and their political allies organize those foreign populations, America's heritage of individual liberty is being dismantled in favor of group rights, racial quotas, and multiculturalism.

So far, the result has been overcrowding, environmental degradation, stagnant wages, ethnic conflict and radical political change.

Unless America reverses course soon, the identity of the U.S. will be permanently altered.

Despite the dramatic shifts in culture and ethnicity, leading politicians rarely acknowledge the changes, except to hail them as part of the "new world order" of the "global economy."