Report: U.S. Immigrant Population Hits Record 46.6 MillionNeil Munro 23 Feb 2022
The U.S. population of legal immigrants and illegal migrants hit 46.6 million in January, up roughly 1.6 million since President Joe Biden was inaugurated, according to federal data posted by the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The 46.6 million immigrants (legal and illegal) in the country in January 2022 is the largest number recorded in any government survey or decennial census going back to 1850,” the CIS says in a report released on February 23.
“As a share of the total population [of 332 million], immigrants were 14.2 percent — the highest percentage in 112 years. If present trends continue, the immigrant share is likely to surpass the all-time high reached in 1890 (14.8 percent) and 1910 (14.7 percent) in the next few years,” said the report.
“It is certainly the case that our legal immigration system … and the conscious decision to purposely not enforce immigration laws [against economic migrants], and to release hundreds of thousands of people into the United States, is now being reflected in these [January 2022] numbers,” said the CIS’s research director, Steve Camarota.
“In just the next few years, we’re going to pass the all-time high … America is headed into unknown uncharted territory,” he added.
The data shows that 70 percent — or 1.1 million — of the new migrants are Latino, Camarota said.
Since January 2021, “it’s possible that 1.5 million [southern migrants] came in,” alongside additional legal immigrants and visa workers, he told Breitbart News. But that southern inflow is partially offset by the exit of other migrants, he added. Perhaps “three or four hundred thousand [migrants] went home. 100,000 got legal status, and 50,000 died,” he said.
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