Seattle conservative blogger David Keenan has an informative, funny post on hype about disaffected Ds pondering a post-11/2 move to Canada. And he digs up some interesting data showing that since Bush's election in 2000, more than a few Canadians, French and Germans have been moving to the U.S.
....the wealthy Washingtonians who voted in droves for Kerry are unlikely to trade their Queen Anne bungalows for a rambler in Chilliwack anytime soon. If we’re talking about self-righteous university students that split time between protests and getting their teeth cleaned, I suppose a few less enrollees couldn’t hurt, considering Initiative 884 failed.As to who would replace them, the 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics shows that the U.S. gained more than 700,000 permanent residents last year, down from just over one million the year before. This number includes more than 11,000 people from, gasp, CANADA! That group was among the more than 50,000 Canadians to have secured lawful permanent residency in the U.S. since 2000. These same stats rank Washington number 9 in terms of the most immigrants settled.
Looking even further down the list, one finds that there have actually been more than 14,000 French citizens that have obtained a U.S. green card since President Bush was elected in 2000.
In case you were wondering, there have been more than 60,000 Germans added to the roles of U.S. permanent residency since Dubya took office.
I suspect that, as educated and worldly as they’re renowned for being, these European and Canadian settlers must have had some idea who the U.S. President was when they moved in. And yet, they still came.
The math is pretty simple. 50,000 Canadians, 60,000 Germans, and 14,000 French equal 124,000 new U.S. residents since Bush took office, all thanks to three of our most Liberal critics in terms of foreign policy. Take away the 120,000 Americans that surfed Canada’s immigration Website in search of a safe harbor after the election, and we still come out 4,000 ahead!
Fine stuff, David. Keep it coming.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at November 19, 2004 11:19 AM
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