Hello. It is happening now and has been happening since 1970. Immigrants and their US born children account for 80% of our population growth. We add one net migrant every 38 seconds. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born in this country; today it is one in 8 the highest it has been in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. Today, there are 45 million foreign born. We have just had the two highest decades of immigration in history--over 25 million people.
But the question is, if that did happened, would the United States still exist? That population increase can only come from immigration.
First, the population of the US is increasing every year. The current growth rate is .77% a year. Since 1970, our population by decade is as follows:
1970--203 million
1980--227 million
1990--249 million
2000--281 million
2010--308 million
Today--318 million
The Gang of 8 bill that passed in the Senate with 14 Rep votes will increase permanent legal immigration to 33 million over the next decade or almost 2 1/2 times the previous decade.
The size of foreign-born population doubled from 1990 to 2010, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970. If S.744 becomes law it would quintuple by 2020, compared to 1970.
The size of the foreign-born population will have increased from 9.6 million in 1970 to 31.1 million in 2000, to 65.2 million by 2033.
The record high of 15 percent projected for 2020 if the bill passes means that over just a 50-year period the foreign-born share of the population would have more than tripled, from 4.7 percent in 1970. There has never been a period in American history when the foreign-born share grew this fast.
People need to wake up. We don't need to bring in 1.1 million permanent legal immigrants a year, 87% of whom are minorities as classified by the USG. It has demographic and electoral impacts. The U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. While the non-Hispanic white population will remain the largest single group, no group will make up a majority.
