More than one-third of Americans will be first- or second-generation immigrants by 2050, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey, which shows the rapid growth in projected new immigrants.
This Chart: 37% Of US Will Be First Or Second Generation Immigrants By 2050
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February 12, 2015 10:44 a.m.
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How are people like me counted? One of my parents is not a US Citizen. I assume I’m not considered a 1st (my mother has no intention of becoming a US citizen) or 2nd generation immigrant, but I’d also guess that a not insignificant percentage of Latinos would fall into my category.
How am I counted…one side of my descendants came over on the Mayflower and my great Grandfather came from England just before WW I.
320 Million Americans now and growing…and we’re already over populated and can only sustain between 175 million and 190 million people.
The US is already over populated…not just because of immigrants mind you, but that needs to be part of a national population roll back plan. Population growth at this point is suicide for our nation and world. Clearly, well educated women make good decisions on the size of their family…so public education in the US and around the world needs to be a top #1 priority…as does properly funding services such as Planned Parenthood!
Most people don’t remember (because it’s, like, in the past) that the U.S. was heading for ZPG (Wow! That’s old-timey language.) in the mid-1970s. In 1988, Joe Biden introduced a more liberal immigration law that passed and was further liberalize during the the Clinton administration. By 2000, the population had nearly doubled from about 150 million in 1950 to about 280 million at a time when birth rates were falling.
If statistics remain unchanged from a couple decades back, “native born” Americans - people whose families have been in the nation for three generations or more, are the portion of the population having two or less children. On the other hand, new Americas, particularly those from Latin America, were averaging 4 children per family. That group’s birth rate seems to be declining as well. So, if the population is still increasing X% yearly, a certain significant portion must be immigration.
Seconding the first two posters, we need our population to decline over time by 100 to 150 million or so. Those part of the country thought to be most worth living in for economic, cultural and “quality of life” are over-crowded and will become more so at present immigration level.
I want my country back !!!
I think one of the only things I remember about my statistics class is that you can NOT acurately extrapolate the end of a data series. This chart is meaningless.