New data from the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that 1.24 million new immigrants will enter the United States in 2015.
The number from the Census Bureau is an estimate of net migration — meaning that the number of new immigrants that arrive in 2015 actually will be larger than 1.24 million, but the net figure has subtracted the number of immigrants who will leave in 2015.
In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 U.S. residents were foreign-born. Today, nearly 1 in 7 was born in another country. Unless changes are made in U.S. immigration policy, the Census Bureau predicts that in 8 years the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will reach a level never seen in our history — and continue to increase. Already 80 million–or 1 in 4–residents is either an immigrant or a child of an immigrant.
This radical change began with the 1965 immigration law pushed through Congress by Lyndon Johnson and Ted Kennedy which lifted immigration caps that had been in place since the Coolidge administration, opening immigration to Third World nations and allowing endless chain migration of relatives.
Posted 7/16/15 by Andrew Lewis