[kabar]

Do you have a link to evidence that states that the 2.0 replacement rate includes immigrants, illegals and those born to immigrants and illegals, which would also indicate that native-born citizens and those with generational rooting in America are not at replacement levels?

The US fertility rate is 2.09 children born/woman (2006 est.) The population growth rate is 0.91% (2006 est.) The net migration rate is 3.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.) --Source CIA factbook.

The US population growth rate would be about 0 were it not for the net migration rate [immigration].

Check out the US Bureau of the Census POPClock and you will see that we add one international migrant (net) every 27 seconds. With births and deaths factored in as well, we gain one person every 12 seconds.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"The US fertility rate is 2.09 children born/woman (2006 est.) The population growth rate is 0.91% (2006 est.) The net migration rate is 3.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.) --Source CIA factbook."

Hmm Thanks for the link. But I don't read that information the same way. I read it this way: the fertility rate of 2.09 is for women who are already citizens. Population rate factors in emigration and death. Migration rate is a number separate from these two. I don't see any indication that subtracting the fertility rate and the population rate from the migration rate is the actual stat for how US citizens are repopulating.

So I'm reading it that US citizens are repopulating themselves at the replacement rate (but just squeaking by), but when you factor in immigration, we are an increasingly smaller percentage of the overall population.

Thanks again for the link.