NEWS: A new report from the Census bureau predicts that nearly one-fifth of America’s total population will be foreign-born in a mere 45 years.
Immigrants, legal and illegal, will enjoy 85 percent growth — from 42 million to 78 million — by 2060.
In contrast, the native-born population, which includes children born to illegal aliens, will increase by 22 percent or 62 million.
Non-Hispanic, native-born whites are the only racial and ethnic group expected to suffer a population decline. In 45 years’ time, their numbers will decline by 16 million, or eight percent, from 198 million to 182 million. They will make up only 44 percent of the nation’s population. The Census bureau points out that births of non-Hispanic, native-born white Americans will decrease by a predicted 23 percent. (Native American indians will suffer a similar decline in fertility of 20 percent.)
The Hispanic population, comprised of a variety of ethnicities from Central America to Mexico, will enjoy a population explosion of 55 million in 2014 to 119 million by 2060, and unless current immigration policies change, they will be 29 percent of the population present in the U.S. at that time.
