The Center for Immigration Studies has released an analysis of the government’s Current Population Survey (CPS) that shows that the total foreign-born population of the U.S., legal and illegal, reached 49.5 million last month. That’s a 4.5 million increase so far during the Biden administration and is thought to have resulted largely from the wholesale admittance of illegal migrants (2.5 million). At nearly 15 percent, the foreign-born share is the highest percentage of the overall population in history.
The foreign-born number has grown on average by 137,000 a month under Biden, compared with 42,000 a month (before Covid) during Trump’s presidency. It’s even double the 68,000 a month logged during Obama’s two terms. In fact, so many are being allowed in that Biden’s open-door policy has already made obsolete the new Census Bureau population projections, published just weeks ago. The bureau had projected that the foreign-born share of the overall population would not hit 15 percent for another ten years, in 2033.
The foreign-born totals from all the world’s regions were up across the board, including:
- South America (up 28 percent)
- Central America (up 25 percent)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (up 21 percent)
- The Caribbean (up 20 percent)
- The Middle East (up 14 percent)
For more, see CIS.org