population

Illegal immigrant population soars to 11.6 million

Article title: 
Illegal immigrant population soars to 11.6 million
Article author: 
Paul Bedard
Article publisher: 
Washington Examiner
Article date: 
Wed, 06/01/2022
Article expiration date: 
Sat, 12/31/2022
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High
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President Joe Biden’s open borders policies have led to a more than 10% surge in the United States's illegal immigrant population, according to a new review of federal data.

Numbers reviewed by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the illegal population grew from 10.2 million when Biden took office to 11.6 million in April.

“This means that illegal immigrants accounted for some 1.35 million (about two-thirds) of the two million growth in the total foreign-born population since President Biden took office,” according to the analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies.

As a result, the foreign-born population in the nation, which includes legal and illegal immigrants, is 47 million, or 14.3% of the total population, the highest in 112 years.

 

Without taking action to stop illegal crossings, more illegal immigrants are expected to pour over the border, raising the foreign-born population to a record level by Election Day, the analysis said.

“As a share of the total population, the foreign-born now account for 14.3% of the U.S. population — the highest percentage in 112 years. If present trends continue, the foreign-born share of the population will surpass the all-time high in American history by September of next year,” according to the report written by Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler.

“Immigration is sometimes seen as like the weather — something outside the control of public policy," the report added. "In fact, it must be understood that the level of legal immigration as well as policies and resources directed at controlling illegal immigration all represent policy choices. The dramatic growth in the foreign-born population in the last 16 months are the direct result of those choices."

The center advocates strict immigration controls, warning that boosting the foreign, and especially illegal, population is costly to taxpayers.

 

Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon, Global Population has Doubled

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Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon, Global Population has Doubled
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Article author: 
Joe Guzzardi
Article publisher: 
Progressives for Immigration Reform
Article date: 
Sun, 04/21/2019
Article expiration date: 
Tue, 12/31/2019
Article importance: 
High
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Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the world’s population was 3.6 billion; in 2019, it’s 7.7 billion. A half a century ago, the U.S. population stood at 208 million; today, it’s 329 million and growing at the unsustainable rate of one net person every 17 seconds, a total calculated by the sum of births minus deaths, plus net migration.

April 22, 2019, marks the 49th anniversary and 50th observance of Earth Day intended to raise awareness and appreciation for the earth’s natural environment. A massive oil spill off the Santa Barbara, California, coast that generated a slick large enough to encompass Chicago provided the catalyst for the first-ever Earth Day, celebrated in 1970, and currently recognized in 193 countries.

At the time, there was an understanding of the impacts of polluting and overpopulating our planet. While the former continues to be the driving element for environmentalists and climate change activists, such is not the case for overpopulation. But the challenges to achieving U.S. population stabilization remain, and they are daunting, even if unmentionable and not addressed.

To the exclusion of a sustainable country, the U.S. government is committed to endless growth, a policy that congressional leaders have embraced for decades, and is perhaps the most significant roadblock to population stabilization. Nobel laureate Steven Chu of the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute said at a recent forum that “the world needs a new model of how to generate a rising standard of living that’s not dependent on a pyramid scheme,” a reference to increasing immigration.

The former Secretary of Energy under President Obama also referred to the idea of replacing aging persons with younger immigrants as an ecological Ponzi scheme that leaves future generations to deal with the life-altering consequences. Young immigrants will eventually grow old, and true to a Ponzi scheme’s formula, another immigrant wave will be needed to replace the aging migrants, etc. ad infinitum.

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Why do we need more people in this country, anyway?

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Why do we need more people in this country, anyway?
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Article author: 
Michael Anton
Article publisher: 
The Washington Post
Article date: 
Thu, 06/21/2018
Article expiration date: 
Tue, 12/25/2018
Article importance: 
Medium
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As Capitol Hill Republicans attempt for — what, the eighth? ninth? — time in the past two decades to jam through an amnesty that their voters have explicitly, loudly and repeatedly said they do not want, it’s worth asking a question that is rarely raised:

Does the United States — population 320 million and rising — need more people? If so, why?

To most ears, the question sounds blasphemous, which illustrates the rottenness of our immigration debate. Actually, “debate” is far too generous. One side has made sure that there is no debate. Good people want more immigration, and bad people object or raise questions. An inherently political issue has been effectively rendered religious, with the righteous on one side, sinners on the other.

The basic question remains. The pat answer over the past 20 years — “to do the jobs Americans just won’t do” — may seem to have some salience with a 3.9 percent unemployment rate. But that only further raises the question. After at least two decades of wage stagnation and even decline, now that we’ve finally reached the nirvana of full employment (and who knows how long it will last), why not take advantage of this tight labor market to raise wages across the board? Especially for the working and middle classes that got nowhere or even lost ground during the housing, finance and tech booms of recent years?

 
 

 

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On April 22 - Earth Day - the nation's children once again will be found "greening" up areas in their communities and doing it with great sincerity because their parents and educators tell them their efforts are making a difference.
 
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Has Sen. Bennet really thought about immigration?

Article title: 
Has Sen. Bennet really thought about immigration?
Article author: 
Philip Cafaro
Article publisher: 
The Denver Post
Article date: 
Mon, 02/11/2013
Article importance: 
Medium
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According to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet's website, reforming immigration policy and combatting climate change are two of his key legislative goals.

But there is no evidence that the senator sees any connection between them, despite the fact that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified population growth as one of the two key drivers of global warming, and that most of the increase in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the past two decades has occurred due to population growth, while per capita emissions have remained relatively flat.

 

While they have so far neglected to provide hard numbers, the Senate Gang of Eight proposes two changes that would greatly increase America's population. First, an immense amnesty covering up to 12 million illegal immigrants, who would then be able to bring in tens of millions of relatives under current "family reunification" rules. Second, a huge increase in legal immigration, among both unskilled and skilled workers.

 

 

Together, these changes could increase immigration into the U.S. by 1 million annually, to as many as 2.25 million people annually. Using Census Bureau forecasting methods, here are projections for U.S. population growth during this century:

 

• 250,000 annual immigration = 379 million in 2100;

• 1.25 million annual immigration = 524 million in 2100; and

• 2.25 million annual immigration = 669 million in 2100;




 




The Millennium Population Boom of America

Article title: 
The Millennium Population Boom of America
Article author: 
Mark Powell
Article publisher: 
The Cagle Post
Article date: 
Mon, 05/30/2011
Article importance: 
Medium
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 In the last 20 years, the U.S. population has grown faster than ever before. From 1990 to 2010, the U.S. population grew by 60 million, a boom driven primarily by unprecedented immigration. This millennium boom handily supersedes the 54 million new human beings who arrived during the postwar prosperity of the baby boom.

 

 


Hispanics Account for More than Half of Nation’s Growth in Past Decade

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Hispanics Account for More than Half of Nation’s Growth in Past Decade
Article author: 
by Jeffrey S. Passel, D’Vera Cohn, Hugo Lopez
Article publisher: 
Pew Hispanic Center
Article date: 
Thu, 03/24/2011
Article importance: 
Medium
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The 2010 Census counted 50.5 million Hispanics in the United States, making up 16.3% of the total population. The nation's Latino population, which was 35.3 million in 2000, grew 43% over the decade. The Hispanic population also accounted for most of the nation's growth—56%—from 2000 to 2010.

(See more re: U.S. population growth during the last decade.)

 

Census: Hispanics Fuel Nebraska Population Growth

Article title: 
Census: Hispanics Fuel Nebraska Population Growth
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Hispanics accounted for 63 percent of the growth
Article publisher: 
Nebraska State Paper
Article date: 
Thu, 03/03/2011
Article importance: 
Medium
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The new federal census shows Nebraska’s population increased by 115,078 in the last ten years. For the most part, the growth is all about Hispanics. 

 

The just-released 2010 census says there are 1.8 million Nebraskans.

 

Hispanics accounted for 63 percent of the state’s overall growth. Nebraska has 167,405 Hispanic residents; that number is up nearly 73,000 since the 2000 census.

 

Most of the overall population growth was in the eastern part of the state, and most of that growth was in Douglas, Lancaster or Sarpy counties. More than half of the state’s population lives in one of those counties.

 

 

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