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rangerrebew:
Report: 75% of population growth since 2000 from immigration, 100 million more by 2065
By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) • 10/26/15 11:32 AM
 

The United States will attract another 100 million more immigrants over the next 50 years, driven by a huge spurt of legally-admitted "spouses" who can then sponsor foreign family members to become Americans, according to a comprehensive new immigration report.

In the period 2010-2019, the U.S. is now projected to process the largest number of legal immigrants in U.S. history, over 10 million, said the report published by Negative Population Growth Inc. And three quarters of the U.S. population growth this century has come from immigration, said the report.

"Immigration, counting both new admissions and births to immigrant women, was responsible for three-fourths of the growth in our population this century. If current trends continue, immigration will add another 100 million people to the United States in the next 50 years," said the report.

Author Jessica Vaughan, the director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said that most of the legal immigration is driven by families due to rules that essentially provide an open door for parents and spouses of U.S. citizens.
 

Those "citizens" are often the children of illegal immigrants and U.S. policy is to keep families together, providing avenues for parents and spouses to enter the U.S. with special status.

For example, she reported that the admission of parents of U.S. citizens has been the "fastest growing category," jumping from 67,000 in 2000 to 120,000 today. And because it "opens up an opportunity for sponsorship of more family members," Vaughan said it can lead to more immigration.

Also, the number of spouses legally allowed into the United States has jumped from 196,000 in 2000 to 415,000 today. "This category also can trigger chain migration, as the new spouses can qualify for citizenship and the right to sponsor their family members more quickly than other immigrants," added the report.

Her report details how a warm-hearted policy to keep spouses together is being worked by some immigrants:

In principle, spousal immigration is uncontroversial. Except in cases of marriage fraud or exploitation, most Americans agree that a citizen should be able to marry someone from another country and bring the person here to live. This is common among members of the military, diplomatic service, and staff of multinational corporations. In addition, many foreigners who come here as students or workers end up marrying a U.S. citizen. Recent immigrants may sponsor a spouse from their home country.

But most people would be surprised to learn that only a small share of the immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens come from abroad. About two-thirds have already been living in the United States, either as legal temporary visitors or as illegal aliens. Interestingly, most of the children of sponsored spouses are admitted from overseas, suggesting that the sponsored spouses originally came to the United States alone, and later applied for their children.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-75-of-population-growth-since-2000-from-immigration-100-million-more-by-2065/article/2574909

aligncare:

Historically, alowing time for cultural and - here's the important part- political assimilation between waves of immigration, ensuring time for American history and traditions to be preserved and protected and handed down to our children, used to be part of America's immigration policy tradition. It appears that tradition has been vacated by left, right, and middle.

HAPPY2BME:
Pew: Immigrants Will Account For 88% of US Population Growth by 2065
By Sam Dorman | October 21, 2015 | 12:22 PM EDT

(CNSNews.com) -- If current demographic trends continue, over 100 million future immigrants and their descendants will account for 88 percent of population growth in the U.S. over the next 50 years, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center.

Pew's analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data projects that the total population of the United States will increase by 117 million people, from 324 million in 2015 to 441 million people in 2065.

Without immigration, the projected U.S. population in 2065 would be 338 million, according to Pew.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) recently released a chart, using Pew data, showing that for every native-born American added to the country’s current population, immigration will add seven more over the next half century. One in five immigrants worldwide currently reside in the U.S.

With 103 million first- or second-generation immigrants comprising 36 percent of the U.S. population by 2065, Pew estimates that in 50 years, a record 17.7 percent of the U.S. population will be foreign-born - compared to the current 14 percent and five percent in 1965.

Pew also reports that since 1965, foreign-born immigrants have been the main driver of U.S. population growth as well as demographic change. The report argues that 1965 saw a major shift in immigration policy with the passage of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The 1965 law changed the criteria for immigrants admitted to the United States. Before 1965, quotas were assigned to countries based on how nationalities were represented in the census. According to Pew, 70 percent of visas were reserved for immigrants from Europe, primarily the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany. Prior to 1965, 80 percent of immigrants were white.

However, the new immigration system abandoned national origin quotas, and  instead focused on bringing in relatives of U.S. citizens, as well as taking in immigrants based on their skills in the workplace.

Since the 1965 changes in the law, three quarters of immigrants to the U.S. have been Hispanics and Asians. Hispanics currently represent 47 percent of immigrants, while Asians represent 26 percent.

While whites currently comprise the majority of Americans (62 percent), Pew projects that they will only make up 46 percent of the population in 2065. Hispanics are expected to make up 24 percent, a six percent increase from 2015, while Asians are expected to make up 14 percent of the population. 

Meanwhile, the black percentage of the U.S. population is expected to grow slightly from 12 to 13 percent. Similarly, the black percentage of immigrants is expected to rise only one percent in the next 50 years, from eight percent to nine percent.

By 2055, "no racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population," Pew predicts.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/sam-dorman/pew-immigrants-will-account-88-us-population-growth-2065

HAPPY2BME:
While out driving around the other day, I saw a very nice, expensive, and large granite tombstone in a yard along the highway.

It was decorated with flowers and had the following inscription in script lettering :

In Memory of America

truth_seeker:
I am wondering when was the cutoff date, when all immigrants before were fine, but those afterwards are to be vilified by "contemporary conservatives" (nativists)?

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